The Church Today

Kuzhippallil, George Thomas

The Church Today Two Ecclesiological Visions - Mumbai St Pauls 2019 - 280p

includes index and biblioraphy

I. Church as Rainbow of Faiths in Religious pluralism 1. John hick`s View on Religious pluralism and the Church ...........21 The surrounding presuppositions of Hick`s Pluralistic hypothesis ..................23 Hick`s Philosophical Approach ..............30 The Real in itself and as humanly experienced .................31 The explication of Hick`s Christological Approach .............36 Hick`s Demand for a Copernican Revolution in Christian Theology ...........37 The Question of Language in the Process of Feification of Jesus ..................46 Inspiration christology of John Hick ..........55 Hick on the Church ..............59 Assessing the church as a Necessary Evil and to that extent God ................59 Hick`s Views on Extra ecclesia Nulla salus and Proposal for the Future Church ...............63 A Rainbow of Faiths: A universal Ecumenism .......66 2. Raimon Panikkar: A warrior of Pluralistic approach ............69 Panikkar`s Cosmotheandric Vision ...........70 Trinity and Christ in Panikkar`s Theological Vision .......74 An Ecumenical Ecumenism - Panikkar`s ecclesiological Vision ..........81 3. Views of Stanley J. Samartha and Jacques Dupuis ...................87 From a Cosmic Christology to a Revised christology .........88 A call for dialogue, and a Call for global Faith community ..........91 Jacques dupuis pneumato-Christological Vision ..............93 Who is christ and his spirit ..........95 One God - One christ - convergent paths ..........103 Part II . Church as Lumen Gentium 4. Dramatic Theology : A New way of Theologising ..............121 Raymund schwager and the concept of the Dramatic ...............122 Schwager`s View on Ignatius loyola`s Dramatic Perception of the Church ..............123 Schwager`s Encounter with Hans Urs von Balthasar ................128 Schwager`s Encounter with Rene Girard ...............129 Theo-Drama as Roots of Dramatic Theology ....................132 5. Elements of drama in Dramatic Theology ..............143 Drama and acts ...........143 Author, director and actors in drama ...............146 Persons and roles ............151 6. Mimetic Theory of Rene Girard as a Key For Dramatic Approach .........155 The mimetic Desire .............156 Scapegoat mechanism and development of Religions and Cultures.............159 Uniqueness of Jewish - Christian Religions ...........166 7. Dramatic Theology Challenges Pluralistic presuppositions .............173 8. How can we understand the church as lumen gentium ..............183 The Church as a Dramatic Process ..............184 Jesus initiative to the new Gathering .............190 First Act: Unconditional Integration of All into the Kindom of God ..............191 Second Act Rrefusal of Integration........................... 201 Third Act: Victimization of the Son and Transformation through surrender .............207 Fourth act: Resurrection : Integration with Doubled love ...........217 Fifth Act : New Gathering in the spirit ..............222 9. The church as lumen Gentium englightens the world ...................231 The church acts as a historical and Concrete reality ............232 The church enhances human Diginity .............236 The church unveils the absolute truth of God as a merciful Father .............247 The lumen gentium sanctifies the world ...............252

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