Dialogue: The Church and the Voice of the Other

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.

Autorentext

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).

Zusammenfassung
«Father John Amankwah provides the Church an insightful look at dialogue in the interplay of theology, philosophy, communication, and faithful responsiveness to the historical moment. This book offers a contribution of both theory and necessary conversation for the life of the Church in the meeting of challenges that diversity and difference bring us, resulting in a dialogic turning toward opportunity for the Church and care that reminds us the faith, hope, and love must reign in the dialogic meeting of this historical moment.» (Ronald C. Arnett, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA)
«On the whole, this is a wonderful and very insightful book that will be of immense benefit not only to members of the Church but also to all those engaged in dialogue studies, theology, religious studies and those interested in the whole issue of the church and dialogue.» (Dr. Joseph Osei-Bonsu, Bishop of Konongo-Mampong Diocese, Ghana)

Inhalt

Contents: The Philosophical Notion of Dialogue - The Church and Dialogue - The Church: Structure and Cultural Systems - Revelation, Narrative and Ethical Dialogue - Praxis Religious Dialogue.