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Classics in Theology Today
Edited by Massimo Faggioli, Steven Battin, Stephan van Erp
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Who we are
Theology in the spirit of Vatican II
Concilium was founded in 1963 by Yves Congar, Hans Küng, Johann Baptist Metz, Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx and their colleagues to carry the conversation of the Council forward. Rooted in the Catholic heritage and open to other Christian traditions and the world's faiths, each issue gathers theologians from every continent around one question of our time.
- 1965
- The first issue appears, born of the Second Vatican Council
- 5 a year
- Each issue takes up one theme of our time
- 4 editions
- English, German, Italian and Spanish
- 5 continents
- Editors and authors from every part of the world church
In this issue
Full table of contentsPart One: The Question of the Classics in Theology Today
- The Doctrine of Loci Theologici as a Path to a Contemporary Understanding of Theological Classics
- Discerning the “Classic” in David Tracy’s Theology
- How the Post/Decolonial Rereads the Classics in Theology
- Do Classics Survive Paradigm Shifts? Postmodern Criticism and Radical Hermeneutics
Part Two: Different Canons of Classics
- From “Classical” Theology to the Classics of African Theology: Some Figures in Ecclesiology
- Theology in Asia: Whose Perspectives and to What End?
- Biblical Ethos of Latin American Theology: Normativity of Territorial Conflicts for its Ecclesial Style
- Theological Classics in Contemporary Europe? Reflections on the Canon of Christian Theology
Part Three: Old and New Classics in Different Subdisciplines
- The Bible as Theology’s Classic: From Ancient Schools to Modern Debates
- Measuring the Weight of History: Rethinking Classics in Fundamental Theology
- Sangam, Not Classic: Seven Texts in Post-Vatican II Moral Theology
- Christian Mystical/Spiritual Classics Today: Some Critical Considerations
“Concilium as a journal is deliberately based on Scripture and the history of salvation. At the same time it has the humble courage to confront the new problems arising from the human conditions of today.”
Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx, General Introduction, Concilium 1 (1965)
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