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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777372803321

Autore

Hampson Margaret Daphne

Titolo

Christian contradictions : the structures of Lutheran and Catholic thought / / Daphne Hampson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11211-7

1-280-41669-6

0-511-05276-6

0-511-17718-6

0-511-15810-6

0-511-32566-5

0-511-48774-6

0-511-03942-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 323 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

280/.042

Soggetti

Lutheran Church - Relations - Catholic Church

Lutheran Church - Doctrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-315) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Luther's revolution -- The Catholic alternative -- Catholic incomprehension -- Nygren's detractors -- Ecumenical encounter -- Dialogue with Bultmann -- Kierkegaard's odyssey.

Sommario/riassunto

Catholic thought and Lutheran thought are differently structured, embodying divergent conceptions of self and God. Failing to grasp the Lutheran paradigm, Catholics have wrenched Luther into an inappropriate framework. Roman/Lutheran ecumenism, culminating in the 'Joint Declaration' of 1999, attempts to reconcile incompatible systems, based on different philosophical presuppositions. Drawing on a wealth of material, both Continental and Anglo-Saxon, the author thinks through these structural questions within a historical context. But how - within a religion of revelation - can God be conceptualised as both foundational to the self and yet also as an 'other' with whom the self inter-relates? Kierkegaard is shown in a complex model to hold



together strengths which historically have been exemplified by the two traditions. This is an important work in systematic theology which considers questions quite fundamental to Western religion. It should be of interest to theologians of all backgrounds and also to church historians.