KASPER, MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY
Keywords:
Kasper, Christian theology, Modernity, Postmodernity, Walter KasperAbstract
In this essay I wish to consider the relationship between Christian theology, and modernity and postmodernity, not in terms of disputes about what theology should or should not borrow from what is new in these periods, but in terms of what modernity and postmodernity can teach Christianity about itself, as it stands already, and, on this basis, about its relation to thought in recent centuries. In making a case to this effect, I will draw extensively from Walter Kasper's thought.
References
Walter Kasper, Jesus The Christ, tr. V. Green (London: Burns and Oates, 1976),181.
Walter Kasper, An Introduction to Christian Faith, tr. V. Green (New York: Paulist Press, 1980), 158.
Walter Kasper, The God of Jesus Christ, tf. Matthew 1. O'Connell [New York: Crossroad, 1984],9).
Theology and Church, tr. Margaret Kohl (New York: Crossroad, 19~9) 9.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, "Relativism: The Central Problem for Faith Today," Origins (Oct 31, 1996), 311.
Thomas Guarino. "Between Foundationalism and Nihilism: Is Phronesis the Via Media for Theology?" Theological Studies, 54 (1993), 54.
Walter Kasper, "Postmodem Dogmatics: Towards a Renewed Discussion of Foundations in North America," Communio 17 (Summer, 1990), 190.
