The Schillebeeckx Case

Download or read book The Schillebeeckx Case written by Ted Mark Schoof and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Schillebeeckx Case brings together for the first time in English the letters between the prominent Dutch theologian Edward Schillebeeckx and the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Catholic Church's central Vatican office in charge of guarding the orthodoxy of the faith. When the Congregation began to investigate some of the theological statements found in the author's Jesus: An Experiment in Christology, it became a source of intense controversy all over the theological world. These official documents cover a five-year period and include the original questions put to Schillebeeckx by the Congregation, his response, their rejoiner, and the report of the face-to-face meeting that finally took place in Rome in 1979. The book ends with the final letter from the secretary of the Congregation, Cardinal Franjo Seper, giving the findings of the commission of investigation. These documents were not composed for publication but for private exchange between the parties and so breathe the passions of the debate. Book jacket.