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Sto caricando le informazioni... Does God Need the Church?: Toward a Theology of the People of God (Michael Glazier Books)di Gerhard Lohfink
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Are not all religions equally close to and equally far from God? Why, then, the Church? Gerhard Lohfink poses these questions with scholarly reliability and on the basis of his own experience of community in Does God Need the Church? In 1982 Father Lohfink wrote Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt?(translated into English as Jesus and Community) to show, on the basis of the New Testament, that faith is founded in a community that distinguishes itself in clear contours from the rest of society. In that book he also described a sequence of events that moved directly from commonality to a community that was readily accessible to every group of people and was made legitimate by Jesus himself. Only later did Father Lohfink learn, within a new horizon of experience, that such a description is not the way to community. The story of the gathering of the people of God, from Abraham until today, never took place according to such a model. Today Father Lohfink states that he would not write Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt?the same way. The situation of belief and believers has undergone a shift: the question of the Church has become much more urgent. Church life is declining and the religions are returning, often in new guises. In light of these shifts and the change in his own view of community, Father Lohfink inquires in Does God Need the Church?of Israel's theology, Jesus' praxis, the experiences of the early Christian communities, and of what is appearing in the Church today. These inquiries lead to an amazing history involving God and the world - a history that God presses forward with the aid of a single people and that always turns out differently from what they think and plan. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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On the whole, this is a VERY good book, filled with tremendous insight into both the fundamental theology of the Old and New Testament. The title of the book poses the fundamental question: Does God "need" the Church? The book is a resounding "Yes!" We know that God "needs" a special, chosen People simply because, from the beginning of Creation, God has always had a special, chosen People. It is the revealed nature of how God works in the world.
Though Lohfink is dealing with the broad sweep of Scripture, he very carefully anchors his insights in close readings of Old and New Testament texts. In reality, these specific readings, almost more than his generalized conclusions, are the great value of the book. Lohfink is a tremendous reader of Scripture, able to bring his expertise in the sociology of early Greco-Roman and Christian communities to bear in ways that genuinely insightful for contemporary understanding.
The book is closely argued but isn't dense or hard-to-follow. Lohfink is purposely writing a more "popular level" version that builds on his prior academic work (especially "Jesus and Community"). Here, Lohfink is quite "quotable," which is probably more of a credit to the translator than perhaps to Lohfink himself. (It's very rare that theological German phrases become quotable English sayings.)
I was also pleased how Lohfink kept the book from becoming an apologia for the Roman Catholic Church. To be honest, that was perhaps my only hesitation with this text. Only at the very end, when he attempts to make a case for papal authority does Lohfink's argument sound like special pleading. Other than that, this is a measured work of biblical theology, equally valuable to Protestant and Catholic traditions alike, and certainly a statement that must be reckoned with by all future analyses of biblical missiology/ecclesiology. ( )