Kathleen McManus

Hope in Action

Theology

“Hope in Action systematically traces the development of Schillebeeckx's and Metz's mature theologies as distinct responses to the surd of human suffering amidst a social and technological frenzy of evolutionary progress. Incisive and engaging, Rodenborn's analysis comes at a time when the victims of history are not only multiplying exponentially but are also perhaps more than ever in danger of being absorbed into an evolutionary consciousness that is theological as well as cultural. As Schillebeeckx and Metz issued disruptive warnings via their respective eschatologies, Rodenborn's critical retrieval summons theologians of the twenty-first century to attend carefully to the cries of suffering victims even as they continue to construct a necessarily evolutionary theology.”