Answerable for Our Beliefs: Reflections on Theology and Contemporary Culture Offered to Terrence Merrigan (Louvain Theological & Pastoral Monographs, 48)

With this Festschrift colleagues and friends honor Terrence Merrigan on the occasion of his retirement from the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. The thirty-two contributions in this volume all show the exceptional quality of his research in different domains of theological study. Since the theology of John Henry Newman has inspired Terrence Merrigan throughout his entire career, the volume opens with a number of outstanding studies on various aspects of Newman's theology: his interaction with high church Anglicanism, his understanding of conscience, the theology of purgatory, but also the neglect of liturgical spirituality in Newman's theology. The contributions in the second part are devoted to the fields of Christology and Trinity, which comprise Merrigan's favorite theological disciplines. The contributions are situated on the intersection of contemporary Christology and its soteriological impact within a pluralistic and secularized context. The third part deals with the theology of interreligious dialogue, with special focus on the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, Jacques Dupuis's theology of religions, comparative theology, Jewish and Christian approaches to interreligious dialogue, and the phenomenon of double religious belonging. The fourth part explores the challenging relationship between faith and culture in an attempt to bridge the Christian tradition with the contemporary world. The present volume makes a distinguished and original contribution to these four important fields of theological research. REFLECTIONS ON THEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE OFFERED TO TERRENCE MERRIGAN Table of Contents Introduction Part I 1 The Rise and Fall of High Church Anglicanism in the Life and Thought of John Henry Newman, 1826-1841 2 How to Argue with Unbelief 3 Newman, Frankl, and Conscience 4 Purgatory as Agony in Newman’s 5 An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Ascent Part II 6 Tilling the Ground for a Later Christology 7 From Mountain to Mountain 8 Who Is Christ for Us Today? 9 A Cumulative Approach to the Resurrection 10 Christology and Ecology in Dialogue 11 Thomas Aquinas: An Indispensable Contribution to the Renaissance of the Theology of the Trinity1 12 “The Doctrine of Divine Unrest” 13 Theological Theology and the Quest for Salvation 14 The Absolute Newness of Love: 15 Toward a Dialogical Approach of Tradition, Allowing for Coherent Self-Criticism 16 The Ecclesiology of Marie-Dominique Chenu  Part III 18 Revisiting the Redaction History of 16-17 in Response to a Recent Debate in Catholic Theology of Interreligious Dialogue 19 From to 20 “The True Light That Enlightens Everyone” 21 Graced Religions 22 “Tread Softly! All the Earth Is Holy Ground” 23 Is There a Judeo-Christian Approach to Religious Others? 24 Can Christians Follow More Than One Religious Tradition? 25 At the Intersection of Racial and Religious Othering Part IV 26 Recalibrating Tradition 27 Problematic Predictions 28 Re-Imagining God in a Secular Age 29 “Which Wolf Will You Feed?” 30 Secularization and Theological Ethics 31 Common Discernment in Theology 32 Kenotic Solidarity in a Splinterizing World List of Contributors