List of Contents



In Memoriam Edward Schillebeeckx, OP (1914-2009)



Prof. dr. Lieven Boeve, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium



Prof. dr. Ben Vedder, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands



Letter from Edward Schillebeeckx to the Participants in the Symposium 'Theology for the 21st Century: The Enduring Relevance of Edward Schillebeeckx for Contemporary Theology' (Leuven - December 3-6, 2008)



Preface



Frederiek Depoortere



List of Contributors



INTRODUCTION



The Enduring Significance and Relevance of Edward Schillebeeckx: Introducing the State of the Question in Medias Res, Lieven Boeve



PART I 'God Is New Each Moment': The Question of God in Modernity



God, the Luxury of Our Lives: Schillebeeckx and the Argument, Anthony J. Godzieba



Taking Atheism Seriously: A Challenge for Theology in the 21st Century, Frederiek Depoortere



PART II 'Everything Is Politics But Politics is Not Everything': The Social Role of Theology



When Everything becomes Political: Reading Schillebeeckx on Faith and Politics in the Contemporary United States, Vincent J. Miller



New Orientations of the Political: On the Contemporary Challenge of Political Theology,Jürgen Manemann



PART III 'God Is Bigger Than All Religions Put Together': The Dialogue Between the Religions



God Before Us, God Among Us: Interreligious Dialogue from an Intercultural Feminist Perspective, Gemma Tulud Cruz



Which Christological Tools for the Interreligious Dialogue?, Jean-Louis Souletie



PART IV 'Deus humanissimus': Suffering and Experiences of Negative Contrast



Suffering, Resistance, and Hope: Women's Experience of Negative Contrast and Christology, Kathleen McManus, OP



The Threatened Humanum as Imago Dei: Anthropology and Christian Ethics, Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP



'Dark Light': Wrestling with the Angel at the Edge of History, Elizabeth Kennedy Tillar



PART V 'It Began With an Experience': Church and Tradition in an Age of Globalization and Liquidization



Pushed to a Precarious Flexibility: Where to Go if Tradition Has No Answer and Apocalypse Is No Alternative, Hans-Joachim Sander



History and Tradition: Catholicism and the Challenge of Globalized Modernity, Oliver Davies



The Church with a Human Face, Marc Dumas



PART VI Philosophy and Theology



Implicit Faith: Philosophical Theology after Schillebeeckx, Stephan van Erp





Conversation, Identity and Truth, Benoît Bourgine



PART VII Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Past and Future of Schillebeeckx's Theological Project



Retrieving God's Contemporary Presence: The Future of Edward Schillebeeckx's Theology of Culture, Erik Borgman



Schillebeeckx and Theology in the Twenty-First Century, Robert J. Schreiter



Theology for the 21st Century: A Commentary on the Symposium, Kathleen Dolphin, PBVM



Bibliography



Index