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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- The Editor/Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1999
- ISSN
- 0018-1196
- eISSN
- 1468-2265
- DOI
- 10.1111/1468-2265.00109
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
New opportunities for discourse about God have arisen, along with new challenges to the mainstream Catholic theology of God. In order to take advantage of these opportunities, a truly contemporary Catholic theology of God must critically appropriate three ‘events’ which have affected its approach to the subject matter: (1) Heidegger's periodizing critique of ontotheology; (2) the ‘contemporary’ viewed as the arena of contention between modern and postmodern claims; (3) the presence of the Kingdom of God and the revelation of the nature of God in the person and work of Jesus Christ, which alter our understandings of time and being. The present essay sketches a program for an authentically Catholic response to the issues raised by these occurrences, emphasizing the Catholic commitment to incarnation and sacramentality and the necessary effort to retrieve redemptive images of God from modernity, despite the present tendency of some postmodern theologians and philosophers to dismiss aspects of the past as unusable.
Journal
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Jul 1, 1999