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The Christian Understanding of Freedom and the History of Freedom in the Modern Era : The Meeting and Confrontation between Christianity and the Modern Era in a Postmodern Situation Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology ; 1988
The Christian Understanding of Freedom and the History of Freedom in the Modern Era:
The Meeting and Confrontation between Christianity and the Modern Era in a Postmodern Situation
by Dr. Walter Kasper Professor of Dogmatic Theology University of Tbingen
Marquette University Press Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233
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Title of the original German manuscript: "Das christliche Verstndnis der Freiheit und die moderne Freiheitsgeschichte. Zur Begegnung und Auseinandersetzung zwischen Christentum und Moderne in einer postmodernen Situation."
Translated by Joseph A. Murphy, S.J.
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 88-60190
Copyright 1988 Marquette University Press
ISBN 0-87462-543-2
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Preface
The 1988 Pre Marquette Lecture is the nineteenth in a series inaugurated to celebrate the Tercentenary of the missions and explorations of Pre Jacques Marquette, S.J. (1637-1675). The Marquette University Department of Theology, founded in 1952, launched these annual lectures by distinguished theologians in 1969.
The 1988 lecture was delivered at Marquette University on April 10, 1988, by Dr. Walter Kasper, Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of Tbingen and one of the leading Catholic theologians in the world.
Professor Kasper was born in Heidenheim, Germany, in 1933 and ordained in 1957. He began his formal theological training under Joseph Geiselmann at Tbingen and, after teaching dogmatic theology at Freiburg and Mnster, he returned to Tbingen in 1970. He is a member of the International Theological Commission and co-editor of four scholarly journals. He was special secretary for the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in 1985. His publications include more than twenty books with translations extending into fourteen foreign languages. Among the more widely acclaimed titles are: Jesus the Christ (1976),
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An Introduction to Christian Faith (1980), Faith and the Future (1982), and The God of Jesus Christ (1984). His newest work, Wahrheit und Freiheit. Die "Erklrung ber die Religionsfreiheit" des II Vatikanischen Konzils, is now in press.
In this lecture Professor Kasper explains the concept of freedom as it developed in the modern era and compares this kind of freedom with its biblical counterpart in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. He discusses the limitations on freedom stemming both from the emphasis of the Enlightenment on autonomous reason and from the exaggerated humanism, the colonialism and the industrial and technological advances of recent centuries. Professor Kasper shows how the Christian freedom of the Gospel precedes and transcends the modern view without losing the advances in freedom that resulted from modern culture and without returning to a premodern world view.
The Pre Marquette Lecture Series is supported by the Joseph A. Auchter Family Endowment Fund. Mr. Auchter (1894-1986) was a native of Milwaukee who excelled in business as a banking and paper industry executive and who was very interested in and supportive of education throughout his life. The fund was established through the generosity of his children as a memorial in his honor.
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The Christian Understanding of Freedom and the History of Freedom in the Modern Era: The Meeting and Confrontation between Christianity and the Modern Era in a Postmodern Situation
I. An Old Problem in a New Context
When we search for a concept by which to characterize the modern world, we keep hearing that key term "freedom".1 "The freedom of the Christian" was an important slogan of the Reformers. Political and spiritual freedom was the issue at stake in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Freedom of religion was an essential motive of the Pilgrim Fathers and is still one of the spiritual foundations of North America today.2 On the other hand, the modern idea of freedom was and still is the central point of controversy between the Catholic Church and the modern world. The popes in the nineteenth century repeatedly,
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and sometimes in quite strong pronouncements, protested against the liberalism of their time and condemned the modern ideas of freedom.3 The relationship between the Christian and the modern understandings of freedom is therefore one of the most important theological questions for the modern world.
The Second Vatican Council took up this question with determination. On December 7, 1965, after dramatic confrontations, the Council completed the Declaration on Religious Liberty and publicly proclaimed it the same day.4 North American bishops and theologians made an essential contribution to this document. We need only remember John Courtney Murray.5 And so in our own century the Catholic Church, through this document, came to accept, after long delays and many reservations and objections, some essential concerns of the political Enlightenment in the modern era. The declaration on religious freedom, therefore, is rightly considered a milestone in the long and controversial history of the relationships between the Catholic Church and the development of the concept of freedom in the modern era.
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