Hope and History

This book enables readers to understand contemporary divisions in Catholic theology. By examining a case study of issues in Catholic fundamental theology, Collits charts a path forward by advocating a rootedness in the Revelation of the Person of Jesus Christ. He does so by exploring metaphysics, the history-ontology and nature-grace relationships, soteriology and Christology. Furthermore, in examining the hope-history debate, this book tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions.Collitis approaches this by examining the competing schools of post-conciliar theology. On the one hand, the Conclilium school of Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx, JB Metz and Gustavo Gutierrez; on the other hand. The Communio school of Josef Pieper and Joseph Ratzinger.>

Auteur
David Collits is an independent scholar and lawyer based in Australia. He was awarded a PhD in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, Australia, in 2021. He has been on the personal staff of (Most Rev.) Anthony Fisher OP, Archbishop of Sydney, and been Lecturer in Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, specialising in systematic theology.

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"This book will enable readers to understand contemporary divisions in Catholic theology. By examining a case study of issues in Catholic fundamental theology, Collits charts a path forward by advocating a rootedness in the Revelation of the Person of Jesus Christ. He does so by exploring metaphysics, the history-ontology and nature-grace relationships, soteriology and Christology. Furthermore, in examining the hope-history debate, this book tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions"--

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Introduction - Hope and History at the Foundations of Theology 1. The Concilium Position on Hope and History in Fundamental Theology 2. The Communio Perspective: Hope Under the Aspect of Eternity 3. The Christological Shape of Hope and Eschatology in the Communio Perspective 4. Hope is Oriented Beyond Itself the Significance of the Nature-Grace Relationship 5. Soteriology and Christology A Communio Rejection of an Immanentist Soteriology Conclusion Bibliography Endnotes