| LIST OF CONTENTS |
PAGES |
| Acknowledgments |
ix |
| Volume Format and Guidance to Reader |
xi |
| Preface: Mapping a Theological Journey Gerard Manion |
xiii |
| Introduction: Josehp Ratginger: His Life, Thoungt and Work |
1 |
| Lieven Boeve |
|
| Joseph Ratzinger: Prolific Theologian and Outspoken Church Leader |
1 |
| Only the truth will set you free |
7 |
| Both Church Leader and Theologian Concurrently? |
9 |
| Is there a Ratzinger I and a Ratzinger II? The Question of the Theological 'Volta-fraccia' |
11 |
| 1. Theological Foundations: revelation, Tradition and Hermeneutics |
13 |
| Lieven Boeve |
|
| Introduction |
13 |
| 1.1 Revelation, Scripture and Tradition |
13 |
| 1.2 The Formation of Tradition |
18 |
| 1.3 Christian Faith Challenged by a Modern Context |
28 |
| 2 Christ, Humanity and Salvation |
51 |
| Lieven Boeve |
|
| Introduction |
51 |
| 2.1 Christian Faith is About Conversion: 'It is no longer I who live, who lives me' (Gal 2:20a) |
53 |
| 2.2 Salvation |
57 |
| 2.3 Salvation in Christ: 'I am the way, the truth and the life' (John 14:6) |
65 |
| 2.4 Salvation in Christ Includes the Hope of Resurrection and Eternal Life |
72 |
| 2.5 The Historical and Bodily Human Being Before God: A Sacramental Anthropology |
75 |
| 3 Undersanding the Church: Fundamental Ecclesilogy Gerard Mannion |
81 |
| Introduction |
81 |
| 3.1 The Essential Nature of the Church |
87 |
| 3.2 The Babylonian Captivity of the Post-Conciliar Church |
94 |
| 3.3 Reinterpreting the Ecclesiology fo Vatican II: The Ontological Priority of the Universal Church |
100 |
| 3.4 The Fullness of the Church: Discerning te Meaning of 'Subsistit in' |
108 |
| 3.5 A Nornative Ecclesiology of Communion: A Project on the Way |
113 |
| 4 Christian Faith, Church and World |
119 |
| Lieven Boeve |
|
| 4.1 The Dialogue of the Church with the Modern World |
119 |
| 4.2 The Christian Soul of Europe |
125 |
| 4.3 Christian Faith and Politics |
133 |
| 5. Christian Unity and Religious Dialogue: On Ecumenism and Other Faiths |
139 |
| Gerard Mannion |
|
| Introduction |
139 |
| 5.1 Christianity and World Religions |
148 |
| 5.2 No Salvation Outside the Church? |
154 |
| 5.3 Discerning the 'Ecumenical Dispute ' between Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestatism |
160 |
| 5.4 Ecumenical Realities Today |
167 |
| 5.5 Agianst Pluralism and Relativism |
172 |
| 6 Teaching and Auhority: Dimensions of Magissterium Gerard Manion |
179 |
| Introduction |
179 |
| 6.1 The Relationship between the Bishops and the Papacy |
187 |
| 6.2 The Structure and Task of the Synod of Bishops |
201 |
| 6.3 Free Expression and Obedience in the Church |
207 |
| 6.4 The Vocation of the Catholic Theologian |
212 |
| 6.5 Magisterium and Morality |
218 |
| 7 Liturgy, Catechesis and Evanglelization |
225 |
| Gerard Mannion |
|
| Introduction |
225 |
| 7.1 Change and Permanence in the Liturgy |
233 |
| 7.2 The Crisis of Catechesis |
240 |
| 7.3 The Teaching office of the Bishop |
246 |
| 7.4 The New Evangelization |
251 |
| 8 Interpeting the Second Vatican Council |
257 |
| Lieven Boeve |
|
| Introduction |
258 |
| 8.1 Aggiornamento and Vatican II |
264 |
| 8.2 The Recception of Vatican: ' The Real Time of Vatican II in Still to Come' |
272 |
| 8.3 Interpreting Vatican II: Between the Spirit and the Letter |
|
| Postscript: Which 'hermneneutics of reform'? |
276 |
| Index of Names |
281 |
| Index of Subjects |
284 |