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Title: Dialogue: The Church and the Voice of the Other

Dialogue: The Church and the Voice of the Other

by John Amankwah (Author)
©2007 Thesis XVIII, 386 Pages
Theology & Philosophy

Summary

This book examines the Church’s communicative practices prior to the convening of the Second Vatican Council and after, focusing particularly on the Church’s understanding of «dialogue». By developing the paradigm of Praxis Religious Dialogue, this book, through the dialogical philosophy of Martin Buber, the incarnational ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, and the theologico-anthropological process of cognition of Bernard Lonergan, offers a new form of dialogue for the Church. This new model of dialogue is embedded in the process of aggiornamento that served as instrumentum laboris for the Second Vatican Council’s deliberations.

Details

Pages
XVIII, 386
Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631559406
Language
English
Keywords
Vatikanisches Konzil (1962-1965) Dialog Praxis Religious Dialogue Revelation Vatican II Ökumene Historicality Narrative Theology
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. XVIII, 386 pp.

Biographical notes

John Amankwah (Author)

The Author: John M. Amankwah was born in 1950. In 1979, he was ordained a Catholic priest and received a Diploma in Adult Religious Education in 1984 at AMECEA Pastoral Institute in Eldoret (Kenya). From 1985 to 1989 he worked for the Ghana Bishops’ Conference in Ghana as an Executive Secretary of the Clergy and Religious Department, Director for the Center for Human Development (CEHUD) and General Secretary to the National Union of Ghanaian Priests’ Association. He received two Masters Degrees in Communication and Social and Public Policy in 1997 and 1999 and in 2005 received a Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetorical Studies from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh (USA) where he also taught for a year. He also taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 2004-2005. Since 2005, the author is an assistant professor of communication studies at the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati Ohio, (USA).

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