Finding God in a World Come of Age

Finding God in a World Come of Age
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Country
United States
Published
7 May 2024
Pages
160
ISBN
9781531505776

Finding God in a World Come of Age

This volume directs attention to the teaching of Jesus; it introduces the question of how the imagination has to work in order to retrieve the teaching of Jesus and apply it to actual life in our day. Teachers and preachers are engaged in this work all the time, but upon examination it involves a process that bears reflection. We live in a world that is so different from the world in which Jesus taught that many ask about its practicability relative to our complex everyday lives. The volume turns to three authors who work at this, have thought through present-day theory of interpretation, and respond to basic questions that explain the adjustments that allow us to apply Jesus's teaching to our dilemmas with interpretation that remain faithful to the content that He proposed. Sandra Schneiders turns to modern hermeneutics-the theory of interpretation-and explains what is going on in the human mind that allows us to say that present-day interpretation, while different from that of Jesus because our "worlds" are different, corresponds to what Jesus communicated in the past relative to His world. William Spohn pushes the same idea further to concrete examples of how analogy, sameness, and difference together bind the imagination to Jesus and frees us to see new relevance for Jesus's actual teaching. And Lisa Sowle Cahill takes the spirit of the other two into the social order to show how Jesus's teaching has a real relevance for the highly complex societies in which we live today. The logics of these three authors offer models for what is going on in all of the "Past Light on Present Life" volumes as they represent different historical periods and distinct themes in Western Christian spirituality.

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