New Catholicity Theology Between the Global and the Local

"The New Catholicity" takes a close look at a 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 into its third millennium. There is both irony and paradox within the riddle of globalization. Such forces as feminist, liberation, ecological, and global theological movements find their counterparts in antiglobalism, ethnification, and primitivism. Liberation thought in a post-Soviet world seeks to be more realistic about economics but finds "reformist gradualism" a bitter pill to swallow. Intercultural theologies find analogous difficulties when they attend to "integrated" as opposed to "globalized" concepts of culture. The seeming polar opposition of "syncretism" and "synthesis" in the context of changing religious identities end up much less amenable to simple value judgements than they once appeared to be. "The New Catholicity" will be of intense interest for students of Catholic theology and the future of Christianity in the third millennium.Schreiter, Robert J. is the author of 'New Catholicity Theology Between the Global and the Local' with ISBN 9781570751202 and ISBN 157075120X.