
Dialogue Derailed
Joseph Ratzinger's War Against Pluralist Theology
Ambrose Mong(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 17. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
358 pages
978-1-62564-986-7 (ISBN)
Description
Joseph Ratzinger has shaped and guided the church's understanding of its mission to proclaim the good news, as well as to forge good relations with non-Catholic Christian communities, other religious traditions, and the secular world at large. Through a critique of Ratzinger's theology, this book draws attention to the importance of theological discourses originating from non-European contexts. Mong highlights the gap between a dogmatic understanding of the faith and the pastoral realities of the Asian church, as well as the difficulties faced by Asian theologians trying to make their voices heard in a church still dominated by Western thinking. While Mong concurs with much of Ratzinger's analysis of the problems in modern society--such as the aggressive secularism and crisis of faith in Europe--he focuses attention on the realities of religious pluralism in Asia, which require the church to adopt a different approach in its theological formulations and pastoral practices.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
519 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62564-986-7 (9781625649867)
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Ambrose Mong is research associate at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and part-time lecturer at the Holy Spirit Seminary and Saint Francis Seminary.