| Preface |
xi |
| Acknowledgments |
XIII |
| Abbreviations |
XV |
| Introduction: Theology and Interreligious Dialogue in the Postmodern Age |
xvii |
| Postmodernism and Its Challenges to Church and Theology |
xvii |
| Christian Faith and Religious Pluralism |
XX |
| Theology, Interreligious Dialogue, and Worship |
XXIV |
| PART ONE: DOING THEOLOGY INTERRELIGIOUSLY IN THE POSTMODERN AGE |
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| 1. The Wisdom of Holy Fools |
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| A Way to the Love of Truth in Postmodernity |
3 |
| From Mythos to Logos to Morosophia |
5 |
| Foolishness as a Way to Wisdom |
10 |
| Foolish Wisdom as Irony and Fantasy in the Postmodern World |
16 |
| 2. Now That I Know How to Teach, What Do I Teach? In Search of the Unity of Faith |
23 |
| Methodological Approaches to the Unity of Faith |
24 |
| Particular Doctrines as Foci to Achieve Unity in Catechesis |
29 |
| The Trinity as the Center of the Christian Faith and Catechesis |
32 |
| 3. To Be or Not to Be Catholic? Is It Still the Question? Catholic Identity amid Religious Pluralism |
42 |
| Catholic or Not Catholic-How Can One Tell? |
43 |
| Catholic Identity and Its Challenges to Religious Education |
50 |
| Shaping the Catholic Identity as a Task of Religious Education |
52 |
| PART TWO: CHRISTIANITY IN DIALOGUE WITH OTHER RELIGIONS |
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| 5. The Claim of Uniqueness and Universality The Logic of Interreligious Dialogue |
85 |
| The Claim of Uniqueness and Universality in Interreligious Dialogue |
86 |
| What Should Be Claimed in Interreligious Dialogue in Terms of Uniqueness and Universality? |
92 |
| The Claim of Uniqueness and Universality and the Aims of Interreligious Dialogue |
98 |
| 6.God as Holy Mystery The Quest for God-equivalents in Interreligious Dialogue |
102 |
| The Names of God and God-equivalents |
102 |
| Religious Experience and Religious Language |
105 |
| Unity of the God Experience and God-equivalents |
109 |
| 7. Talking of God in Many and Diverse Cultures and Religions A God for Asia |
115 |
| The Complex and Pluralistic World of Asia |
115 |
| Approaching Asia Religiously |
117 |
| Talking of God in Multicultural and Multi-religious Asia |
120 |
| 8. Transformation and Liberation by Enlightenment Jesus as the Enlightener and as the Enlightened One |
128 |
| Jesus as the Light or the Enlightener of the World |
129 |
| Jesus the Enlightened One or the Buddha |
130 |
| Light from Light: Enlightener Because Enlightened |
136 |
| 9. Jesus as the Universal Savior God's Eternal Covenant with the Jewish People |
137 |
| The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and World Religions |
138 |
| Jesus as the Universal, Unique, and Absolute Savior |
140 |
| Christ and Christianity in View of the Continuing Validityof the Jewish Covenant |
141 |
| 10. Jews and Judaism in Light of the Catechism of the Catholic Church On the Way to Reconciliation |
147 |
| The Catechism on Jews and Judaism |
147 |
| The Catechism in Light of Earlier Church Documents |
153 |
| Going beyond the Catechism in Preaching and Catechesis |
158 |
| 11. The HolocaustReflections from the Perspective of Asian Liberation Theology |
161 |
| Jews and Judaism in Asian Theology |
163 |
| Asian Liberation Theology and Holocaust Theology |
171 |
| Holocaust Theology and Asian Liberation Theology:The Continuing Dialogue |
184 |
| 12. Holy War, Unholy ViolencePerspectives on Religion and Peacebuilding |
186 |
| Religion, Violence, and War |
188 |
| Religion and Peacebuilding |
193 |
| PART THREE: WORSHIP IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD |
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| 13. Liturgical Inculturation |
213 |
| Unity in Diversity in the Postmodern Age |
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| Inculturation in the Postmodern Age |
214 |
| Liturgical Inculturation according to Varietates Legitimae |
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| in the Postmodern Context |
225 |
| Liturgical Inculturation: Perspectives from the Asian Churches |
232 |
| 14. How Much Uniformity Can We Stand? How Much Unity Do We Want? |
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| Worship in a Multicultural and Multi-religious Context |
245 |
| How Much Uniformity Can We Stand? |
246 |
| How Much Unity Do We Want? |
248 |
| The Shape of the Church to Come |
251 |
| 15. Liturgy of Life as Summit and Source of Eucharistic Liturgy Church Worship as Symbolization of Liturgy of Life? |
257 |
| The Church Liturgy as Summit and Source |
257 |
| The Liturgy of Life as Source and Summit: Church Worship as Symbolization of the Liturgy of Life |
265 |
| Popular Religion: Parallel Symbolization of the Liturgy of Life |
274 |