HOME SOME THEMES IN ENGLISH THEOLOGICAL THEMES
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POINTING TO THE MOON
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FINGERS POINTING TO THE MOON
AN ANALYSIS OF THE
THEOLOGICAL METHOD
OF KARL RAHNER AND EDWARD SCHILLEBEECKX
IN THE CASE OF CHRIST AND AN EXPLANATION OF RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
Liem Pham, S.J.
Lời để chuyển ý, được ý hãy quên
lời.
If you get the meaning, forget the word.
(Trang Tử)
Bè để
qua sông, qua sông hãy bỏ bè. Đừng vác bè mà đi.
After the boat carries you across the river, leave it behind. Don’t
carry the boat on your shoulder.
(Trang Tử)
“This is like a man pointing a finger at the moon to show it to others
who should follow the direction of the finger to look at the moon. If they look
at the finger and mistake it for the moon, the lose (sight of) both the moon
and the finger.”
(The Surangama Sutra).
I.
CHRIST: THE UNSURPASSABLE OF REVELATION (Karl Rahner)
a.
Transcendental anthropology
Unthematic
and categorical knowledge of God
b.
Grace as self-communication of God
c.
Jesus Christ as the absolute savior
Experiences of God through symbols
c.
Other religions willed by God
3.
Rahner’s Theological Method
II.
EXTRA MUNDUM NULLA SALUS (Ed. Schillebeeckx)
Section
I. Schillebeeckx’s Early Theology
1.
Incarnation as starting point of Christology
2.
Church as constitutive element of salvation
Section
II. Later Schillebeeckx’s Theology
1.
God’s Salvation Experienced In The World
a.
Salvation experienced in worldly reality
b.
No revelation without experience
2.
Religions- Concrete Context of Talk about God
a.
Religions- sacraments of salvation
b.
Pluralism- matter of principle
3.
Jesus- God’s Universal Love to Human Beings
a.
Jesus- God’s universal love for human beings
Theological
hermeneutics of history
III.
FINGERS POINTING TO THE MOON
c.
Religions as “fingers pointing to the moon”
2.
Fingers Compared (Rahner and Schillebeeck)
a.
The significance of different audiences
Different
transcendental conditions
b.
The significance of different methods
Transcendental
versus correlative
Christocentric
versus theocentric
3.
Theologies-- Fingers Pointing to God
a.
Audiences of various mentalities entail different theologies
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