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Edward Schillebeeckx shares stories of his life, his adventures as a theologian, and the joy he finds in his work. With humor and enthusiasm, he engages in theological gossip and offers unfettered opinions about controversial church issues and church people.
- Sales Rank: #2066897 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Crossroad
- Published on: 1994-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 103 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian
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Published for his eightieth birthday, this remarkable book serves as summary of this great theologian's life's work
By Love Thy Enemy
Including a lengthy and life-long interview, some sermons given shortly before publication, other documents and correspondence, as well as a Scriptural and poetical selection, etc., this seemingly slim volume contains conprehensive and comprehensible material from throughout the life of this great Catholic theologian, the Reverend Father Schillebeeckx, rendering much difficult and technical material more accessible to the layman, explaining many doubts, clarifying concerns and misunderstandings, and making this great and warm and human heart and soul blessed by God with a mighty intellect and love for God and the Church closer to us all.
The sermons here transcribed are especially helpful, as they were delivered shortly before publicaiton. One of these sermons beautifully (as always with this great and Catholic Theologian) declares his deep Faith in the Resurrection, with his profound attempt at explanation of this Faith.
A few people, beating a long dead horse, continue unfairly to question unjustly this profound Catholic soul, yet his works will live on long after us who are here and now. His great trilogy beginning with Jesus: An Experiment in Christology and continuing through Christ: The Experience of Jesus as Lord, when the dust has settled and God continues whatever form of ecclesiology and apostolic succession a future humanity finds most significant in a future millenium through the on-going Pilgrim process of Ecclesiogenesis -, the prodigious theological work of the Reverend Father Schillebeeckx will be gratefully received and respected as has been his fellow Dominican St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province) (5 Volume Set) once the outraged controversy from the Angelic Doctor's own contemporaries had long been forgotten and we could learn to catch up with Aquinas enough to declare him the "official" theology, comprehending in part his intent, elaborate and minute methodology and his labor's true significance for understanding our Faith. Thus shall come to Father Schillebeeckx. The bookburners cannot win, as one fictional one did so tragically and painfully and Pyrricly and temporarily in the semiotic philosopher Umberto Ecco's great novel The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript.
Fortunately we do not have to wait for (and indeed we cannot physically wait to see but from Heaven) what future generations of Catholics will receive and comprehend, as this brief volume makes much which is not now understood very clear, including not only a complete biographical interview and an excellent comprehensive inrtoduction, but also discussing several points of theology within their historical context.
For example much background noise has arisen around the poorly understood term transignification. A few have whittled this word down to an easily digestible monosyllable of sign, having limited their experience and understanding of sign to, for instance, that of a concrete physical highway road sign which indicates the way to go to a certain destination using alphanumeric and graphical symbols which are not in themselves the way but only point out the way. Thus the sign to Cincinnatti is not in reality the road to Cincinatti.
This is very far from the true meaning of transignification, which comes from the Lacanian and semiotic and philosophical terms for signification, signifiers, signified, etc. The closest we may come in our common parlance is the word significant, which has itself lost much of its precision, power and, well, significance.
Thus a certain few stimulate and excite themselves to a great and delightful (for them) fever pitch by purposefully misunderstanding and mistinterpreting the true meaning of this term, inventing by their own dim and deceitful lights heresy where none exists.
I refer them therefore to pages 23 and 24 of this present volume where in the midst of interview questions regarding his post-Conciliar audience with Pope Paul VI, Father Schillebeeckx takes the opportunity to discuss this very term. Throughout this bascially biographical interview, Father Schillebeeckx humbly and passionately takes the light off himself and turns, as a great Domincan teacher and preacher, to explaining points of theology and of Faith, making of this interview something far more than originally intended.
Thus we here read (please remember the rough English translation cannot accurately reflect the Reverend Father's own words, nor are the footnotes his): "The Pope told me, 'I am truly content with what you said in your lectures at Domus Mariae on the Eucharist.' At that time I was defending transignification. The encyclical Mysterium fidei had just come out (this was Spetember 1965) and I began my lecture by praising the encyclical. I said that I was against transignification understood as pure symbolism and that transubstantiation(13) is a transignification in an ontological sense(14). The Pope told me: 'They've reported you've become one of us.' I didn't understand what he meant; I had the sensation of not having been clear. Why should I have become 'one of us?' I am one of the Church. Who are these 'us?'
"I certainly had observations to make on the encyclical, but I expressed them blandly. I had observations on transignification as pure symbolism. For me, transignification was ontological, something quite different from a physical transignification. Someone tried to explain the expression used by Paul VI as meaning that the Pope was not opposed to my ideas on the Eucharist.
"However, I didn't think this a very happy expression. He encouraged me to continue my research, expressed himself content with the lectures. I wanted to defend myself by saying something about my theology, but he wouldn't let me. At the end of the audience he took out a rosary from a drawer and said, 'Take it to your father.' And what about my mother? He gave me another one. Then he called the secretary who brought in the photographer. That was the end of the audience.
"At the door I met the Benedictine abbot Basil Hume, who was to become Archbishop of Westminister. He said to me, 'Fr. Schillebeeckx, keep going as you are. (pp. 23,24)"
The footnotes referred to state: "(13) transubstantiation is the transformation or conversion of the bread into the body and the wine into the blood. Transignificaiton is the transformation or conversion of the bread into the body and the wine into the blood. Transignification is a radical transformation of the ultimate meaning of what the bread is after cnosecration. Before consecration the bread is nutrition for the body, whereas after consecration the bread is totally spiritual nutrition. Transfinaliztion: the bread is bodily nutrition but the aim of the consecrated bread is a spiritual nutrition, a gift of Christ the saviour. Transignification and transfinalization are concepts nearer to the modern mentality. With these terms Schillebeeckx seeks to give a better expression to the anthropological significance of the eucharistic presence in relation to that of the believer and the church. The ultimate destination of the bread changes profoundly with consecration.
"(14) After the consecration the reality of the bread is something different, specifically the body of Christ."
So that settle it then. For the Reverend Father Schillebeeckx transignification is ontological. Case closed. Read this book.
For those few of you who slept through your Philosophy of Theology 101 course, I refer you to the excellent The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, specifically in its article on ontology, where this is described as a pre-Conciliar neo-Scholastic concern for the ground of all being based in God, to summarize very roughly and imperfectly. Thus for the Reverend Father Schillebeeckx, who celebrates this November 93 years of a rich and fruitful life in the Lord's service, remember him please in your prayers, who was trained twenty years before the Council (thus pre-Conciliar) in Dominican seminaries (thus Scholastic as Aquinas), ontology is a major concern. The Reverend Father Schillebeeckx here states as clearly and as strongly as he can that transignification is in no way a mere roadsign but a full and comprehensible expression in modern post-Kantian terminology of the very Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. Transignification is ontological means that the Host is no longer significantly bread but is truly the Body of Christ.
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A surprisingly helpful little book id you are at all interested in Schillebeeckx,. Vatican II, and recent RC theology. Outstanding!.
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