I Believe, Despite Everything
Subtitle: Reflections of an Ecumenist (Unitas)
Contributors: Mary Tanner (Foreword); William G. Rusch (Translator)
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780814624920
Subjects: Ecumenism; Religion; Christianity - Theology - General; Religion - Catholicism; Religion - Classic Works; Christian Theology - Catholic; Christianity - Theology - Catholic; Christian Theology - General; Church; Unity
First sentence: Let us begin with a question which is perhaps indiscreet: you sometimes quote an expression from Yossel Rakover: "I believe in the God of Israel, although he has done everything to shatter the faith which I have in him." Why?
Description: The author's conversation here is that of the great subjects of theology, especially the Church, ecumenism, as well as some major pastoral preoccupations. He was well read and erudite as well as a passionate person. His competence allows in a free conversation for the discovery of what is essentially a profession of faith and hope. Thus, the witness of this exceptional theologian is also a marvelous lesson in theology. It is an open theology because the stakes are high: the human person, the Church, conversion, culture. It is a calm theology because it is deeply lived in faith, contemplative, grappling with God, the God whom theology does not tire to invoke--especially in the worst times--a God in whom theology does not cease to trust.