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A Theological Chronicle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2024

Cornelius Ernst O.P.
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It is probably true to say that there is no form of intellectual life more unfamiliar to the educated English Catholic than theology. If he were asked to name some topics which he supposed were discussed by theologians he would probably refer to the proofs of the existence of God, transubstantiation, the sacraments-the first of these in the context of ‘Thomism’, the second of apologetics, in school and pulpit, the third in the context of ‘liturgy’. The reference to the pulpit is a considered one; for if lay Catholics are open to the charge of naivety, the responsibility is by no means wholly theirs; can the clergy, and even the professional theologians among them (with some embarrassment I include myself, if only as a theological columnist, in this sub-category) , really claim to be practising theology with energy, fertility, learning and insight?

Type
Research Article
Information
Blackfriars , Volume 41 , Issue 482 , June 1960 , pp. 220 - 227
Copyright
Copyright © 1960 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 See Blackfriars, May 1959, pp. 226–8, for an account of the first two volumes.

2 See also, in the Lexikon, the articles on Eschatology (Gross, Schnackenburg, Rahner, Schierse) and on Basilcia (Schnackenburg). Schnackenburg has recently published an important full-length study of the notion of ‘the kingdom of God’, Gottes Herrschaft und Reich (Herder).

3 I take this information from Karl Rahner's long discussion of the book in Theologische Quartalschrift 138 (1958), pp. 40–77.

4 See the study on Tradition by Geiselmann, Fragen, pp. 69–108; also the articles on Dogma, Dogmenentwicklung, etc., by K. Rahner, J. Auer and others in Lexikon III, col. 438–70.

5 Rahner discusses these themes, and many others, not only in his reflections on Küng's book but also in his survey of ‘Nature and Grace’ in Fragen.