Publication

1997 - Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

35,000 words, Guess

Page Count

140 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC230/.2
  • LCCBX1390 .S36 1997

Description

Encompassing recent developments in anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and communication theory The New Catholicity explores the many aspects of globalization that challenge Christianity as it enters into its third millennium. In Schreiter's view, a deep irony, perhaps even a paradox, is concealed within the riddle of globalization. Such forces as feminist, liberation, ecological, and global theological movements find their counterparts in antiglobalism, ethnification, and primitivism. Liberation thought in a post-Soviet world seeks to be more realistic about economics but finds "reformist gradualism" a bitter pill to swallow. Intercultural theologies find analogous difficulties when they attend to "integrated" as opposed to "globalized" concepts of culture. The seeming polar opposition of [bad] "syncretism" and [good] "synthesis" in the context of changing religious identities end up much less amenable to simple value judgments than they once appeared to be.

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Other Editions

  • The new catholicity: theology between the global and the localOrbis Books1997-01-01

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