A Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity
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.
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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.
In Place of a Foreword: On the Biographical Itinerary of My Theology1Introduction: Reading Metz71The New Political Theology: The Status Quaestionis232On the Way to a Postidealist Theology303Theology as Theodicy?544Theology versus Polymythicism: A Short Apology for Biblical Monotheism725Do We Miss Karl Rahner?926Karl Rahner's Struggle for the Theological Dignity of Humankind1077The Church After Auschwitz1218Theology and the University1339Monotheism and Democracy: Religion and Politics on Modernity's Ground13610A Passion for God: Religious Orders Today150Notes175Sources205Bibliography207
