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Manufacturer: Continuum
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780826429278
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Roger D. Haight
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Publisher: Continuum
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Dewey Decimal Number: 232
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Publication Date: 2007-08
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: In a strongly worded "notification," in February of 2005, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith denounced Jesuit Roger Haight's award-winning, best-selling book Jesus Symbol of Godas containing "grave doctrinal errors." Like a number of theologians before him--Hans Küng, Charles Curran, Anthony de Mello, Tissa Balasuriya, and Jacques Dupuis--Haight has been banned from teaching as a Catholic theologian. In its overall criticism of the book, the Congregation, still under the direction of the then Cardinal Ratzinger, charged that Haight "subordinates the contents of the faith to their plausibility and intelligibility in post-modern culture." For his part, Haight says: "I look at American Catholicism with a population more and more educated in the faith. Many college and university students are used to religious pluralism, and are asking how they can square it with the Catholic faith. I try to put critical words to their experience and keep their experience in touch with the tradition. My fear is that educated Catholics will walk out if there isn't space for an open attitude to other religions." The Future of Christology covers much the same ground as Jesus Symbol of God, though in a much more accessible and compact format. The earlier book was written as a textbook; this one, with a wider audience in mind. In the final chapter, Haight responds to the numerous reviews Jesus Symbol of God received, both pro and con.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Thoughts on The Future of Christology |
Date: 2006-02-04 |
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Details: The Future of Christology is a superb and important book. It is much more than a non-technical summary of Roger Haight's earlier book, Jesus Symbol of God (JSG). JSG is a treatise on Christology, scholarly and technical, and includes a comprehensive survey of the historical development of Christology. The Future of Christology draws out some deep implications of the earlier work, but also advances beyond it. In The Future of Christology, Haight develops a contemporary framework for thinking and reflecting on the nature of salvation through Jesus, the role of the Christian in that salvation, and the relationship of the Christian understanding of God's salvation to other religious traditions.
Haight does not assert that his interpretations of Jesus and of the salvation which comes through him are true, and that all other interpretations are false. He simply argues that his interpretations are acceptable views within a pluralism of understandings of Jesus and his mission. Among his important interpretations and views are the following:
a. The concrete historical foundation of Christianity is Jesus the person. We must start our imagining and thinking about Jesus with the human person described in the gospels, and work from that base toward an understanding that he is also divine.
b. Jesus saves not by concluding a transaction with the Father, but by revealing what has been and is the social and personal condition of humans in sin. Jesus becomes the actual savior in history in the measure in which people take up and practice his liberating revelation of God.
c. Personal sin infects individual freedom, but more powerfully social or communal sin keeps humans in bondage. Salvation, seen as liberation, must be a social as well as personal reality, and must be a process involving all human beings. The kingdom of God is a symbol, as well as a vehicle, for social grace and social salvation.
d. Jesus is not the instrumental cause of salvation but the revealer of salvation. Jesus reveals God who has always been savior. Jesus is not necessarily the exclusive historical mediator of salvation. In the measure in which other religions are historically distinct from Christianity, autonomous in their mediation of revelation of ultimate reality, and true, they are relevant for all humans.
These interpretations, carefully worked out, coordinated with each other, and persuasively explained, deepen and broaden the framework within which each one of us understands Christianity. I strongly recommend this important book. |
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Review Summary: From Continuum: |
Date: 2005-10-28 |
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Details: The author's award-winning and best-selling book Jesus Symbol of God has recently been judged by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to contain "grave doctrinal errors." Like a number of theologians before him-Hans Küng, Charles Curran, Anthony de Mello, Tissa Balasuriya, and Jacques Dupuis-Haight has been banned from teaching Catholic theology. In its overall criticism of the book, the Congregation charges that he "subordinates the contents of the faith to their plausibility and intelligibility in post-modern culture." For his part, the author says: "I look at American Catholicism with a population more and more educated in the faith. Many college and university students are used to religious pluralism, and are asking how they can square it with the Catholic faith. I try to put critical words to their experience and keep their experience in touch with the tradition. My fear is that educated Catholics will walk out if there isn't space for an open attitude to other religions." This book is a more compact and accessible presentation of his understanding of Jesus Christ than the one in Jesus Symbol of God. The author has not changed his position in light of Vatican criticism; he has only sharpened and clarified it. |
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