The New Catholicity: Theology Between the Global and the Local

by Robert J. Schreiter

In the 1970s and 1980s new theologies, called "liberation," and "local" or "contextual" theologies, erupted where the Enlightenment theologies of Europe and North America failed to respond to people's needs. Now, "globalization" sweeps over the world with technologies that compress time and space, where cultures homogenize even as new particularisms arise. Following on his widely-acclaimed Constructing Local Theologies, Robert J. Schreiter's The New Catholicity takes a close look at this complex and rapidly changing environment and traces the issues that are reshaping theology today. Encompassing recent developments in anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and communication theory The New Catholicity explores the many aspects of globalization that challenge Christianity as it enters its third millennium.

Genres: Theology

152 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Schreiter is a professor of systematic theology at Catholic Theological Seminar. He is also a priest and member of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Schreiter is the author or editor of twenty-seven books, with contributing chapters in 140 other volumes. He is past president of the American Society of Missiology and of the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Reviews

[Pieter Van winden · Rating 3 out of 5]

A wise and sympathetic book, about issues that are currently at stake: multicultural society and christian faith. Schreiter offers a lot of intriguing thoughts, but sometimes more ideologically motivated than factually, of theologically. Still, a provoking and brilliant work.