Salvation for the sinned-against
Subtitle: han and Schillebeeckx in intercultural dialogue
By: Kevin P. Considine ; foreword by Robert J. Schreiter
Series: Missional church, public theology, world Christianity -- 5; Missional church, public theology, world Christianity -- 5.
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781625648624
Subjects: Han (Psychology); Victims; Minjung theology; Salvation; Catholic Church; Religious life; Sin
Description: The problem of the barbarous excess of human suffering is becoming the main question of global Christianity. In an intercultural, globalizing world, how do we envision the wounds of sin and God's saving work of healing, liberation, and redemption? Salvation for the Sinned-Against attempts to address these questions and to suggest a renewed understanding of God's salvation for the victims of sin within the intercultural and globalizing context of the twenty-first century. It offers a thorough treatment of Edward Schillebeeckx, intercultural hermeneutics, and the Korean concept of han, and brings them into dialogue with the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et spes. This book is the first in-depth study of han from a Roman Catholic perspective and the first to attempt to integrate han into Roman Catholic theology in order to begin to envision salvation for the sinned-against creature. Its insights into the experience and message of salvation for the sinned-against (as well as the perpetrators) speak not only to the ecclesial sphere but to the public sphere and beyond. Although written from a Western, North American social location, this is a book that can be useful far beyond this context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Robert J. Schreiter; title: 1. Gaudium et spes : a relatively inadequate soteriology for the sinned-against creature; title: 2. The bridge : the soteriology of Edward Schillebeeckx; title: 3. Theological method : intercultural hermeneutics and the semiotics of culture; title: 4. An outer-hearer's understanding of Korean-American theologies of Han; title: 5. Intercultural dialogue : toward a Roman Catholic soteriology for the Sinned-Against.