Berkouwer and Catholicism

Biographical note Readership Reviews Table of contents

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

viii, 550 pp.

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BRILL

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English

Biographical note

Eduardo J. Echeverria, Ph.D. (1981), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, USA. He has published, most recently, "In the Beginning. . ." A Theology of the Body (Pickwick Publications, 2011).

Readership

All interested in Berkouwer’s fresh, constructive and critical evaluation of Vatican II and of the classical issues that have divided the Catholic Church and the Reformed tradition.

Reviews

With ecumenical dialog between Catholics and evangelical Protestants at what may be an all time high, the forgotten legacy of Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer has never been more relevant. Few modern Protestants dealt as carefully, fully, or sympathetically with twentieth-century Catholicism as did Berkouwer. Eduardo Echeverria's meticulous study admirably brings Berkouwer's work to a contemporary audience. His is a project of far more than academic significance.
Dr. Peter Leithart, Senior Fellow of Theology, New Saint Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho.

Introduction
I. The Renewed Church and the Nouvelle Théologie
Ecumenicity
Essential and Accidental Protestantism
Hermeneutical Principle
Credo Unam Ecclesiam
Ressourcement and Aggiornamento
Revelation and Truth: Different Expressions of the Same Truth
Ecclesiastical Magisterium
New Modernism?
Truth and its Formulations
Epistemological Relativism
After Mysterium Ecclesiae
Hierarchy of Truths
II. Revelation, Faith, and the Knowledge of God

Introduction
General Revelation, Natural Theology, and Special Revelation
Unity and Distinctness of God’s Revelation
Reformed Objections to Natural Theology
Is natural theology an autonomous theology?
Is the knowledge of God’s existence by natural reason a fact or merely a possibility?
Is the God of the philosophers not the God of the Bible?
Two sources of knowledge: general revelation and special revelation?
Conclusion
III. Disputed Questions on Faith and Reason

What does General Revelation mean for acquiring a Natural Knowledge of God?
Is Natural Theology implied in an acceptance of General Revelation?
What can man’s reason, if anything, truly know of God after the Fall?

Nature and Grace, Structure and Direction
After Vatican II: Did Berkouwer change his mind about the relation between faith and reason as well as Natural Theology?
Retreat to Commitment
Motives of Credibility
Positivism of Revelation
Revival of Natural Theology?
IV. Scripture and Tradition in Relation to Revelation and to the Church

An Introductory Orientation
Presumption of Coincidence
Sola Scriptura, Si; Solo Scriptura, No
Double Source Theory of Revelation?
Authority and Interpretation
Focus of this Chapter and the Next
Before, During and After the second Vatican Council
Before the Council
During and After the Council
Implications for the Principle of Sola Scriptura
V. Disputed Questions on Scripture, Tradition, and Theological
Authority
Objection I: Reply
Objection II: Reply
Objection III: reply
Objection IV: Reply

VI. The Development of Dogma
Berkouwer on Dogmatic Development
What is the Nature of Dogmatic Development?
Truth and Noetic Progress
Truth and the Inadequacy of its Formulations
Faithfulness to the Gospel
What are the Issues at stake in Dogmatic Development?

Theological Epistemology
Doctrine of Special Revelation
In what sense is faith a way of knowing divine reality?
We know much more than we can tell
Marian Dogma
Pre-Vatican II Critique of the Fundamental Mariological Principle
During Vatican II: Minimalism and Maximalism
A Minimalist Reply to Berkouwer’s Objections

Epilogue
The Significance of Berkouwer for the Adventure of Ecumenicity

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