A passion for God
Subtitle: the mystical-political dimension of Christianity
By: Johann Baptist Metz ; edited and translated, with an introduction by J. Matthew Ashley.
Contributors: Ashley, James Matthew, 1958-
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines; Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church; Liberation theology; Theodicy
Description: In A Passion for God, J. Matthew Ashley edits and translates the most important of Metz's recent essays previously unavailable in English. This diverse collection reflects on such issues as the crucial place of memory in Christian faith and in society as a whole, the role of religious in the Church, the meaning of the mystical virtue of poverty of spirit and the relationship between Christianity and politics in modernity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Political theology; title: On the way to a post-idealist theology; title: Theology as theodicy?; title: Theology versus polymythicism; title: Do we miss Karl Rahner?; title: Karl Rahner's battle for the theological dignity of humankind; title: The church after Auschwitz; title: Theology and the academy; title: Monotheism and democracy; title: A passion for God.