Concentrated Creation: Creation and Salvation in the Christology of Edward Schillebeeckx (T&T Clark Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx)
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Overview
This book widens the understanding of salvation from a narrow focus on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to one which is inseparable from creation theology. In this analysis of the Thomist and Irenaean sources of Edward Schillebeeckx’s creation faith, God’s absolute saving presence to humanity is found to be intrinsic to his creative action. This becomes most explicit in God’s humanity in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Lewis argues that Jesus is both God’s invitation to humanity and is himself the perfect human response to God. Because of this, Jesus’ followers are called to be engaged in God’s saving action, by working to remove suffering from people and to build a better world in which all may flourish.
Schillebeeckx’s theology is sometimes thought to divide into two disconnected halves, a pre- and post-Vatican II version. The way in which Schillebeeckx’s Christological soteriology has developed over his theological career, before and after Vatican II, is here examined using the Annales model of continuity and change. This book finds that Schillebeeckx both breaks with the language of Chalcedon while remaining adamantly faithful to the truth which it expresses. The final chapters discover how Schillebeeckx’s ideas and methods are crucially relevant in an analysis of contemporary social suffering in Ciudad-Juárez by Nancy Pineda-Madrid, and in the project of the Catholic Dialogue School in Flanders by Lieven Boeve.
- Widens the understanding of salvation.
- Argues that Jesus is both God’s invitation to humanity and is himself the perfect human response to God.
- Discovers how Schillebeeckx’s ideas and methods are crucially relevant.
- Introduction
- PART 1: Schillebeeckx’s Ressourcement
- Chapter 1: Christian Creation Faith: Aquinas and Schillebeeckx
- Chapter 2: Christian Anthropology: Irenaeus and Schillebeeckx
- PART 2: Questions of Continuity and Change
- Chapter 3: Questions of Continuity and Change
- Chapter 4: Continuity and change in Schillebeeckx’s Christology: The Earlier Christology
- Chapter 5: Continuity and Change in Schillebeeckx’s Later Christology: Suffering and Sin
- Chapter 6: Continuity and Change in Schillebeeckx’s Later Christology: The Praxis of the Kingdom of God and the Humanity of Christ.
- PART 3: Schillebeeckx’s Ideas and Methods in dialogue with New Contexts
- Chapter 7: Schillebeeckx’s Ideas and Methods in Dialogue with New Contexts: The Femicide in Ciudad-Juárez.
- Chapter 8: Schillebeeckx’s Ideas and Methods in dialogue with New Contexts: The Catholic Dialogue School in Flanders
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Concentrated Creation is a rich and important analysis of the centrality of creation faith in Schillebeeckx’s Christology.
—The Heythrop Journal
Lewis richly contextualizes the centrality of Christology in Schillebeeckx’s presentation of creation faith through her exploration of key sources, lines of continuity and change, and new contexts in which to see the vitality of his thinking. Befitting its subject, this book imbues careful theological study with a distinct spiritual heartbeat.
—Elizabeth M. Pyne, Mercyhurst University, USA
This is a very helpful book, showing how Schillebeeckx’s non-Anselmian soteriology expresses the intimate connections that he makes between creation, being human and Christology. The primacy of praxis is articulated clearly throughout the book, coming to fulfilment in its last part in challenging and compelling ways.
—Martin Poulsom, University of Roehampton, UK
- Title: Concentrated Creation: Creation and Salvation in the Christology of Edward Schillebeeckx (T&T Clark Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx)
- Author: Rhona Lewis
- Series: T&T Clark Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Pages: 248
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- ISBNs: 9780567708892, 9780567708908, 9780567708939, 0567708896, 056770890X, 0567708934
- Resource ID: LLS:CNCNTRTDSCHLLBC
- Resource Type: Monograph
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