Autor: McCarthy, Michael

Buch: Workshop Rome 2001

Titel: Theological Reflection and Christian Renewal

Stichwort: Hindernisse für eine theologische Aneignung und Notwendigkeit von Konversion u. Unterscheidung

Kurzinhalt: Liste: Hindernisse, egoistic, group and general bias -> conversion; minor, major authenticity; Beeinflussung durch Kultur, Notwendigkeit d. Unterscheidung von Fortschritt und Niedergand (decline)

Textausschnitt: 1. The Christian churches, especially the Catholic Church, are still in the midst of a belated cultural transition. In the modern age, the major breakthroughs in science, historical scholarship and collective practicality were largely initiated by secular thinkers and social movements. ... It will surely take time to overcome the suspicion and hostility that came to divide Christians from their secular counterparts in the course of the European Enlightenment.
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2. Christians are faced with a continuing demand for intellectual and moral development.
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3. Christians are hardly immune from egoistic, group and general bias. ... The most serious human conflicts, both those within and between human beings, can only be overcome through comprehensive conversion, through the intellectual, moral and religious transformation of our thinking, living, deciding and feeling.
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4. There are inherent limits to the contribution. ... It is one thing to diagnose a malady, another to discover a cure; one thing to call for peace and justice, another to discover and enact their enabling and sustaining conditions. ... Moral idealism and prophetic criticism need to be combined with a deep knowledge of human existence and history,
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The real choices facing existential subjects are largely determined by the institutional and cultural communities in which they reside. Thus Lonergan distinguishes between the minor authenticity of the individual subject and the major authenticity of the historical community. Existential authenticity is a rare and difficult achievement for the individual person. It requires sustained self-transcendence over the course of a human being's lifelong development.
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... if the study of human society is to be critical as well as factual, to be both evaluative and explanatory, psychologists, sociologists and historians must learn to discriminate effectively between historical progress and decline, authenticity and alienation, the achievement and the refusal of self-transcendence.