Interruptions: Mysticism, Politics, and Theology in the Work of Johann Baptist Metz

The Relationship Between Spirituality and Theology .........1
A Turn to Spirituality ....1
Spirituality : A Definition ...........8
The Relationship Between Spirituality and Theology ......16
Methodological Conclusions ...........23
2. Dangerous Memories : The Dynamism of Metz`sThought.....27
Reading Metz...27
Memory and the Other ......35
Metz, The Turn to the Subject, and Kantian Heritage .........37
A Map of Metz`s Theological Journey .......52
3. Metz and the Transcendental Method .......59
Metz and Heidegger.........60
Metz`s Collaboration with Karl Rahner .........73
Christian Anthropocentricity .....84
4. The Birth and Development of Political Theology ........97
New Interlocutors, New Directions.........97
Encounters with Marxism.......100
Encounters with Judaism and the Emergence of the Spirituality of Leiden an Gott........129
5. Metz`s Theology : In Defense of the Human .............135
Purpose and Structure of a Fundamental Theological Anthropology.......136
Starting Point for a Political Hermeneutics of Danger ........140
Metz`s Categories of Being a Subject.......140
Authentic Being in History : Leiden an Gott.......148
Summary : The Endangered Subject and Apocalyptic Temporality. ......163
6. The Mistical Political Structure of Christian Spirituality and Theology ........169
Rahner and Metz Revisited: The Mystical Political Dimension of their theologies ......171
Critial Appreciation and Questions ......191
Conclusions: The Mystical _ Political Dimension of Christian Faith ..........199