Spirituality of the Universal Church: Rediscovering faith. Commemorative volume marking the 70th birthday of Sebastian Painadath SJ

The different contributions in this volume throw light on various aspects of a universal Church spirituality and reflect a lively dialogue within the universal Church. For this we owe a debt of gratitude to the authors but also to many others. Our special thanks go to the staff at missio who helped us to put together this volume: Thomas Arnold, Monika Kling, Dr. Hadwig Müller, Dr. Marco Moerschbacher, Michael Meyer and Prof. DDr. h.c. Raul Fornet-Betancourt. We should also like to thank Elisabeth Steffens for the careful compilation of the manuscripts as well as Christine Bauer and Dr. Klaus Wolf for their attentive proofreading. Preface ......................................................................................... ix Dedicated to Dr. Sebastian Painadath on his 70th birthday Dr. Sebastian Painadath SJ - a two-page portrait ............... 1 Norbert Nagler Theology of Prayer Interplay of salvation and health in prayers for healing: theological places in Africa .................................................. 9 Anne Béatrice Faya Theology of Prayer .............................................................. 25 George Gispert-Sauch Prayer and Engagement as the Basis of Theology ............. 37 Thomas Fornet-Ponse “Pleasure in Prayer”?........................................................... 47 Hans Waldenfels SJ Encounter between Spirituality and Theology Mystic Penetration and Prophetic Dynamism What kind of spirituality is appropriate for our age? ............ 61 Boniface Mabanza Spirituality and Theology ..................................................... 71 Michael Amaladoss, SJ Cross-fertilisation of Spirituality and Theology..................... 81 Luiz Carlos Susin vi Spirituality of the Universal Church Thoughts on a Theology of a Universal Church Spirituality................................................ 95 Klaus Krämer Spirituality and Christology How justifiable is it to speak of a Christ-centered spirituality from an African perspective? ............................................... 107 Fr. Roberto Turyamureeba MCCJ Spirituality and Christology .................................................. 119 P. Dr. Sebastian Painadath SJ Love is not loved: Towards a complete spirituality............................................ 127 Ángel Darío Carrero Spirituality: Ways of Walking with Christ and of Coming to Christ....................................................... 139 Klaus Vellguth Inter-Spiritual Encounter Inter-Spiritual Encounter: Igbo (West African) Indigenous Religious Search for Harmony and the Christian Mediation of the Sacred .......................... 155 Elochukwu E. Uzukwu Is Intercultural Spirituality Necessary? The Goal of the Encounter of Cultures ................................ 175 Francis X. D’Sa SJ Reflections on the potential for interreligious and interspiritual dialogue in a context of cultural and religious colonialism in Mapuche territory....................... 189 Ramón Francisco Curivil Paillavil Dialogue between Christianity and Hinduism ...................... 201 Martin Kämpchen vii Mission Spirituality Mission Spirituality: The Centrality of Christ in the Catholic University ............... 215 Pius Male Ssentumbwe Asian Missionary Spirituality................................................ 245 Jacob Kavunkal How can we speak of God today?....................................... 255 Víctor Bascopé Caero What is the essence of modern Eucharistic spirituality? Liberation theology aspects................................................. 273 Hermann Schalück Appendix Index of authors................................................................... 285 Index of translators .............................................................. 289