Born to a Jewish mother and Protestant father in 1923 Berlin, Gregory Baum has devoted his career to a humanistic approach to Catholicism. In The Oil Has Not Run Dry, Baum shares recollections about his lifelong commitment to theology, his atypical views, and his evolving understanding of the Catholic Church's message. Baum's reflects on his groundbreaking work with the Second Vatican Council (1962 65) and how it helped to open the Church to a new understanding of outsiders--one that advocated cooperation with world religions in support of peace and justice and respected secular philosophies committed to truth and social solidarity. Later embracing Latin American liberation theology, he became a leading thinker of the Catholic Left in Canada, adopting radical positions that initially earned support from Canadian bishops in the 1970s. Diverging from official Catholic doctrines regarding women and sexual ethics, Baum eventually left the priesthood, but continued to teach theology and remained active in the Church. The Oil Has Not Run Dry also discusses the contrast between Catholicism in Quebec and English-speaking North America, and the ways in which Baum sees Quebec's culture as more marked by social solidarity. This significant difference has inspired his decision to present in his own writings the original development of Catholic thought in Quebec to an English-speaking readership. Gregory Baum is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University and the author of Fernand Dumont: A Sociologist Turns to Theology and Truth and Relevance: Catholic Theology in French Quebec since the Quiet Revolution. --$cProvided by publisher.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2016.
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 241/.042092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773599963 9780773548268
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- BX4705.B254
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- A3 2017eb
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 259 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- (CaBNVSL)kck00237346 (OCoLC)964599616 (CaOOCEL)451722
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- The Oil Has Not Run Dry 2
- Title 6
- Copyright 7
- Dedication 8
- Contents 10
- Significant Dates 12
- Part One My Theological Pathway 16
- 1 My Childhood in Berlin 19
- 2 Coming to Canada 25
- 3 The Impact of The Confessions of Saint Augustine 30
- 4 The Discovery of Ecumenical Dialogue 40
- 5 The Anti-Jewish Rhetoric of Christian Preaching 45
- 6 The Second Vatican Council 53
- 7 Salvation in Secular Life 62
- 8 My Book Man Becoming 66
- 9 God Is Light 72
- 10 Dialogue with Sociology 78
- 11 The Impact of Latin American Liberation Theology 90
- 12 North America in the 1970s 99
- 13 Rethinking Sexual Ethics 114
- 14 The Issue of Homosexual Love 127
- 15 Moving to Montreal 130
- 16 Quebec Nationalism and Human Rights 136
- 17 Learning from Karl Polanyi 142
- 18 Learning from the Frankfurt School 147
- 19 In Dark Times 154
- 20 Theology after the Second Intifada 162
- 21 Dialogue with Islam 167
- 22 Pluralism Yes, Relativism No 173
- 23 Listening to Fernand Dumont 181
- 24 The Arrival of Pope Francis 187
- 25 Towards a Pluralistic Catholicism 194
- Part Two Questions and Answers 200
- 26 Looking Back over Your Life 202
- 27 Your Hopeful Reading of the Catholic Church 204
- 28 Your Sinful Existence 206
- 29 The Humanism of Your Upbringing 208
- 30 Troubled Theism 211
- 31 Deeply Rooted in the Catholic Tradition 213
- 32 Your Homosexual Orientation 221
- 33 A Poem for Your Ninetieth Birthday 225
- 34 Your Identity as a Man of Many Affinities 227
- 35 You Continue to See Yourself as a German 234
- 36 As a Quebecer Have You Become a Sovereignist? 237
- 37 Stephen Harper’s Remaking of Canada 239
- 38 In Dark Times We Pray for God’s Deliverance 241
- 39 The Meaning of Prayer in Your Life 243
- 40 Thinking of Death and Resurrection 247
- Personal Bibliography 252
- Notes 254
- Index 270
