the religious situation of our time Küng, Hans Primary Author mixed material bibliography Great Britain SCM Press 1994 monographic en English

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This book is a continuation of On Being a Christian, into the history of theology and the church, for there can be no answer to the question of what is truly and authentically Christian in the divided two-thousand-year history of Christianity without a critical survey of the church tradition in its different confessional expressions. The criterion for what is Christian is not Christianity as it really exists at any time, but its nearness to or remoteness from its origin, its foundation and centre. So in this way I shall attempt a critical, historical account of twenty centuries of Christianity. I know that this is a tremendously difficult undertaking. and historians would regard it as And not a few theologians simply impossible. But this difficult undertaking must be ventured on we are not completely to lose sight of the whole of Christianity, if we are to understand the present and develop perspectives for the future. I should make it plain that this book is neither a neutral scholarly description of Christianity nor a systematic theological account of the doctrine of Christianity. It presents a synthesis of both dimensions, history and systematic theology, and i both a it offers chronological narrative and an analytical argument about the substance of Christianity. It tells a story, a tremendously dramatic and complex story, but at the same time this story is constantly interrupted critically from the start to ask about the price paid by Christianity in a particular paradigmatic constellation. "Questions for the future" are asked, of the kind that always arise when a church tradition has hardened and thus become incapable of true ecumenicity. The book is thus conceived on interdisciplinary lines, because it breaks out of "disciplines" which have proved sterile and attempts a multi-dimensional view of Christianity. It sets out to be an ecumenical book in the best sense of the word, based on the conviction that the confessions of Christianity will survive in the third millennium only in the spirit and form of true ecumenicity. Christianity 201334025710 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 201 Kun c E96023180 Non Fiction 201 Kun c 716HbtBP%2B7L._AC_UF894%2C1000_QL80_.jpg 47757 2014-12-11 08:36:43 2024-11-13 17:58:34 machine generated