Johann Baptist Metz, founder of political theology in Europe, is one of the most significant Roman Catholic theologians working since the Second Vatican Council. In A Passion for God, J. Matthew Ashley edits and translates the most important of Metz's recent essays previously unavailable in English. This compelling and diverse collection reflects on such issues as the crucial place of memory in Christian faith and in society as a whole, the role of religious in the Church, the meaning of the mystical virtue of poverty of spirit and the relationship between Christianity and politics in modernity. A Passion for God includes an introduction by Ashley that surveys Metz's career in the context of postconciliar Catholic theology and offers the reader helpful advice for understanding Metz's work. Those interested in the various aspects of North American liberation as well as political or public theology will find this book to be an invaluable resource.
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An invaluable and serious theological resource and contribution in itself. -- The Catholic Weekly, Australia
Ashley's translations are very good given the notorious difficulty in rendering Metz's 'poetic' German style in English. -- Catholic Issues
These essays deserve to be pondered, and responded to. -- Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology
These essays show Metz's theology at its mature best. The translator has done us all a service. -- Anglican Theological Review
This is a very fine collection. -- Sewanee Theological Review
Ashley's translations are very good given the notorious difficulty in rendering Metz's 'poetic' German style in English. -- Catholic Issues
These essays deserve to be pondered, and responded to. -- Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology
These essays show Metz's theology at its mature best. The translator has done us all a service. -- Anglican Theological Review
This is a very fine collection. -- Sewanee Theological Review
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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culturally polycentric global church, glittering high cultures, anamnestic reason, new political theology, theological dignity, memoria passionis, charged expectation, theodicy question, second courage, eschatological question, imminent expectation, bounded time, biblical monotheism, biblical discourse, ecclesial life, modern ground, fundamental theology, dangerous memory, last council Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Karl Rahner, New Testament, Second Vatican Council, Carl Schmitt, Catholic Church, European Christianity, Elie Wiesel, Jesus Christ, First Vatican Council, God of Abraham, God of Jesus, Karl Barth, Old Testament, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger New!
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culturally polycentric global church, glittering high cultures, anamnestic reason, new political theology, theological dignity, memoria passionis, charged expectation, theodicy question, second courage, eschatological question, imminent expectation, bounded time, biblical monotheism, biblical discourse, ecclesial life, modern ground, fundamental theology, dangerous memory, last council Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Karl Rahner, New Testament, Second Vatican Council, Carl Schmitt, Catholic Church, European Christianity, Elie Wiesel, Jesus Christ, First Vatican Council, God of Abraham, God of Jesus, Karl Barth, Old Testament, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger New!
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- Faith and the Future: Essays on Theology, Solidarity, and Modernity (Concilium) by Johann Baptist Metz on 4 pages
- Theology of the World by Johannes B. Metz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Theological Investigations Volume X by Karl Rahner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Poverty of Spirit by Johannes Baptist Metz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Faith in History and Society: Toward a Practical Fundamental Theology by Johann B. Metz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory (Pueblo Books) by Bruce T. Morrill on 4 pages
- When God's People Have HIV/AIDS: An Approach to Ethics by Maria Cimperman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Future of Liberation Theology: An Argument and Manifesto by Ivan Petrella on page 138, and Back Matter
- Redeeming Memories: A Theology of Healing and Transformation by Flora A Keshgegian in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On Being Human: U.S. Hispanic and Rahnerian Perspectives (Faith & Cultures) by Miguel H. Diaz on page 79, and Back Matter
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