Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g
Reihe: Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia
Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g
Reihe: Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia
ISBN: 978-90-429-2936-4
Verlag: PEETERS PUB
Concerning the normativity of the Christian tradition, there remains
much to be said in a theological context today. In the modern period,
from the debates that (still) rage over the reception of the second
Vatican council to the embeddedness of tradition in Orthodox positions,
from firmly rooted national-ecclesial traditions to the challenges of
various contextual and postmodern theologies, our understanding of
tradition and its normativizing legacy continue to take center stage in
our ongoing global theological conversations, though the exact stakes
are often unclear and much in need of further examination. We are faced
at present with an ever increasing rigor and depth in terms of
theologians’ willingness to confront the relationship between history,
tradition and normativity – the great shaping forces of the Christian
life, and ones which often go unexamined. What we discover in the midst
of these reflections is that discerning whether or not God has
interrupted our conceptualizations of history or whether and how our
traditions are affected by God’s people (or those who shepherd them) is
a highly complex affair, and one that each of the essays presented here
attempts to address in its own way.
