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  • Hope in Action: Subversive Eschatology in the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz
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  • by Steven M. Rodenborn
  • 2014
  • Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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This volume contends against a major lacuna in the story of eschatology in the twentieth century by offering a historical and comparative analysis of Edward Schillebeeckx’s prophetic eschatology and Johann Baptist Metz’s apocalyptic eschatology with the goal of identifying relative advantages and limitations of these divergent eschatological frameworks for rendering a Christian account of hope that prompts action in the public arena.

Rodenborn provides a fresh angle on eschatologies of hope, bringing to the fore two Catholic theologians whose influences range from Vatican II to Latin American liberation theology. Hope in Action offers an innovative contribution to the theological account of the emergence of European political theologies and the role of eschatology as a practical and destabilizing theological category.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Praise, Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Introduction: "Always be ready . . ."
  2. pp. 1-22
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  1. 1. Metz's Response to Secularization: From a Transcendental-Linear to a Utopic Theology of History
  2. pp. 23-68
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  1. 2. Schillebeeckx's Response to Secularization: From a Merciful Dispensation to Latent EschatologicalHope
  2. pp. 69-114
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  1. 3. Schillebeeckx Contends with a History Marked by Suffering: Contrast Experiences and a Search for EschatologicalHope's Positive Orientation
  2. pp. 115-166
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  1. 4. Schillebeeckx's Prophetic Eschatology: Contrast Experiences and Creative Fragments
  2. pp. 167-200
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  1. 5. Metz Contends with a History Marked by Suffering: Sensitivity to Suffering Under the Pressures ofEvolutionary Time
  2. pp. 201-268
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  1. 6. Metz’s Apocalyptic Theology of History: Holding Open Hope by Binding History
  2. pp. 269-308
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  1. Conclusion: “An accounting for the hope...”
  2. pp. 309-338
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  1. Postscript: Subversive Eschatology and “Indirect Ecumenism”
  2. pp. 339-346
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 347-364
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  1. Index of Names
  2. pp. 365-366
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  1. Back Cover
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