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The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Relation God – World in the Theology of Yves Congar
Zukauskas, H.
2018
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Preface ... 1
Introduction ... 3
Chapter One. Congar’s early work: the need and sources of theology of the Holy Spirit ... 16
Early contours of Congar’s theological programme ... 17
Setting the scene: the church and the world ... 17
Contours of a response to the human world: participation in God ... 19
The incarnation and the catholicity as divine interaction with the human world ... 22
Proposal: church and the turn to the Spirit in the relation God-world ... 26
Programme develops: Divided Christendom ... 28
Activity and history: what kind of Thomism? ... 33
Sources of Congar’s theology of the Holy Spirit... 35
Thomas Aquinas on the church: church, human being and Trinity ... 35
Personal, ecclesial and cultural implications of Thomist influence ... 37
Necessity of the two divine missions ... 39
Hidden role of the Spirit ... 39
The limits of Thomist influence ... 41
Towards a proper role of the Spirit: life of the church as theological locus ... 41
The influence of Johann Adam Möhler ... 43
Beyond Möhler ... 45
Concluding remarks to chapter one ... 46
Chapter Two: Reform, the Spirit and the divine human synergy ... 48
War and after war years: renewal as return to sources ... 48
Return to the sources as the response to the world... 50
The demand for truthfulness and the turn to the Spirit... 53
Theological response: the synergy and the proper role of the Spirit... 54
Early view of synergy ... 58
The corrective Pneumatological aspect of synergy... 60
Theology of reform and the church as the realm of the Spirit’s activity in the world ... 61
Christological Pneumatological tension ... 64
Christ and human divine cooperation ... 67
Analogy of Christ and the church: the emphasis on humanity ... 67
Emphasis on humanity and the role of the Spirit ... 68
Roles of Christ and the Spirit in the church ... 69
The role of humanity of Christ and sacramental contact ... 71
Concluding remarks to chapter two ... 74
Chapter Three. The laity and participation in God through the world ... 76
Situating Congar’s theology of laity: the relation church – socio-cultural world... 76
Theology of laity as a bridge ... 78
The world, its evolution and the incarnation... 80
Rapprochement and its aporias point to the Spirit ... 85
Jesus Christ and the Spirit in the account of participation ... 87
Theandric temple: presence and the Spirit ... 89
Theandric temple and the aporias of mediation ... 92
Rapprochement revisited ... 95
Two orders and participation... 96
Two “planes” and synergy ... 99
The priesthood of the laity and the Spirit ... 101
Towards the Pneumatological corrective ... 106
Concluding remarks to chapter three ... 108
Chapter Four. Turn to the living God: (re-) connecting the human, the world and God, and the person of the Holy Spirit ... 110
The situation of the turn to the living God ... 110
Towards personal role of the Spirit in the relation God-world ... 114
“Living God” and ascent to complement descent in salvation economy ... 115
The living God and the person of the Holy Spirit ... 118
Living God, person and the intimate relations of God-human-world ... 121
Person, meeting God in the world and the role of Christ ... 124
Personhood and the Trinitarian shape of return to God in the world ... 128
The initial intuitions of the relation of the world and the Spirit ... 130
The person of the Spirit engaging the world ... 133
The Word and the Spirit: history and eschatology ... 134
The incorporation of the whole creation and the Spirit as Gift ... 136
The presence of God now: Christian community as the sacrament of salvation ... 138
Critical issues around the relation God-world ... 142
Concluding remarks to chapter four ... 143
Chapter Five. Pneumatic tradition and the logic of touch ... 145
Living tradition ... 145
Theology behind the tradition as active and lived ... 146
Tradition as self-entrusting divine – human action ... 148
Critical reflections on Congar’s tradition as action ... 150
Tradition, which binds God, humanity and the world as books ... 153
Paul Fiddes and the missing “book of the world” ... 157
Mediation as “logic of incarnation” and immediacy of the Spirit ... 161
Sacramental time ... 164
The incorporation of the dynamic world and the need of Pneumatology ... 166
Logic of touch: the missions of the Son and the Spirit come together ... 167
Pneumatological implications of the church as sacrament of salvation of the world ... 170
Way forward ... 175
Concluding remarks to chapter five ... 179
Chapter Six. Re-entering the discussion of Participation through the door of the Spirit.. 180
Living prophecy ... 180
Entrance through the door of the community and the Spirit ... 184
The re-visioning and the personal role of the Spirit ... 185
Re-assessing the Trinitarian account of the creation’s participation in God ... 188
Indwelling and “Appropriation” ... 189
Indwelling and “ad extra” ... 191
Indwelling and incorporation ... 191
The Spirit and the notion of mediation in the relation God-creation ... 196
“Narrative of mediation” ... 202
The Spirit and the relation God-world... 209
The Word and the notion of sign ... 212
Concluding remarks to chapter six ... 217
Conclusion ... 218
Contours of possible development: immediacy with God and engagement in the world ... 223
Contours of possible development: socio-cultural sphere ... 225
Contours of possible development: Divine patterns of intimacy, delight and action ... 227
Bibliography ... 232
Selected works by Yves Congar ... 232
Books and collections of articles ... 232
Individual articles and sections in books ... 234
Works by other authors ... 236
Samenvatting ... 255
