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The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 4: World and Church

by Edward Schillebeeckx

  • Paperback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: T&T Clark
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

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World and Church deals with the conflict between religiosity and life in the world. Deliberately, Schillebeeckx turns around the order of the words in the idiom 'church and world', thereby stressing the embedding of faith and church life in particular contexts. In the first three chapters he reflects on this tension as he experienced it in burgeoning existentialism and debates between Catholics and Marxists in those turbulent years in Paris, where he was living immediately after World War II. It includes thoughts on pastoral work among the working class and the then popular pretres-ouvriers movement. He looks at some social problems and the mutual interrogation of believers and non-believers, also in light of the ideological compartmentalisation ('pillarization') evident in diverse spheres of European society: education, social work and health care. Schillebeeckx concludes by considering the responsibility of Catholic intellectuals and academics for the future of the world and the church, including the possible significance of a Catholic university
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The Collected Works of Edward SchillebeeckxThe Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 4: World and Church

  • Title

    The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 4: World and Church

  • Author

    Edward Schillebeeckx

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    T&T Clark

  • Published

    November 2018

  • Weight

    368g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567685421

  • ISBN-10

    056768542X

  • Eden Code

    4685191