World and Church Volume IV

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World and Church deals with the conflict between religiosity and life in the world. Deliberately, Schillebeeckx turns around the order of the words in the idiom ‘church and world’, thereby stressing the embedding of faith and church life in particular contexts. In the first three chapters he reflects on this tension as he experienced it in burgeoning existentialism and debates between Catholics and Marxists in those turbulent years in Paris, where he was living immediately after World War II. It includes thoughts on pastoral work among the working class and the then popular pretres-ouvriers movement. He looks at some social problems and the mutual interrogation of believers and non-believers, also in light of the ideological compartmentalisation (‘pillarization’) evident in diverse spheres of European society: education, social work and health care. Schillebeeckx concludes by considering the responsibility of Catholic intellectuals and academics for the future of the world and the church, including the possible significance of a Catholic university. Cover HalfTitle Title Copyright How to use this book Contents Abbreviations Introduction to Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Introduction to the new edition ‘World and Church’ Chapter 1 Religion and the world: renewing the face of the earth 1. The challenge of the present situation 2. The biblical view of the world: the ‘cosmos’ 3. An examination of the Christian situation of man 4. Humanism of the redemption Chapter 2 Humble humanism 1. Humanism and humility 2. Humble humanism as man’s sense of being a creature 3. Humble humanism which confesses sin 4. Humble humanism which consents to the absolute greater value of the gift of salvation 5. Humble humanism which accepts the grace of the passion 6. Humanism as the ‘new creation’ Chapter 3 Priest and layman in a secular world 1. Anonymous Christianity 2. A re-examination of the priestly apostolate 3. The revival of the lay apostolate Chapter 4 ‘The sorrow of the experience of God’s concealment’ 1. The correlation of our image of man and the world with our image of God 2. ‘I, God, am your salvation’ 3. The church, the sacrament of the world Chapter 5 Church and world 1. ‘The world’ as the objective expression of the life of grace 2. Implicit Christianity and the church’s social teaching 3. The believing members of the church and the future of mankind on earth Chapter 6 The church and mankind 1. The unity of mankind and the communion of saints 2. The dialectical tension between ‘mankind’ and the church 3. The basis of this dialectical tension 4. The blurring of the boundaries between the church and mankind 5. The secular and sacral realisation of the church’s holiness Chapter 7 The ecclesial life of religious man 1. The development of the history of salvation towards the people of god of the church 2. The visible church, object of Christian faith 3. The church as motive for faith 4. Religion and life in the church Chapter 8 Supranaturalism, unchristian and Christian expectations of the future Chapter 9 Christians and non-Christians: 1. The theory of toleration 1. The dialogue 2. Toleration Chapter 10 Christians and non-Christians: 2. Practical cooperation 1. Social structures, social work and charity 2. The Catholic hospital and health service Chapter 11 Man and his bodily world 1. The Christian approach to human bodiliness 2. The animal in man’s world Chapter 12 The intellectual’s responsibility for the future Chapter 13 The significance of a Catholic university for the world and the church 1. The idea of the university 2. The Catholic university Table of original publication Index