The oil has not run dry : the story of my theological pathway /

"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...

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Main Author: Baum, Gregory, 1923-2017 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
Series:Footprints series (Montréal, Quebec) ; 23.
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Table of Contents:
  • My childhood in Berlin
  • Coming to Canada
  • The impact of The Confessions of Saint Augustine
  • The discovery of ecumenical dialogue
  • The anti-Jewish rhetoric of Christian preaching
  • The second Vatican council
  • Salvation in secular life
  • My book Man Becoming
  • God is light
  • Dialogue with sociology
  • The impact of Latin American liberation theology
  • North America in the 1970s
  • Rethinking sexual ethics
  • The issue of homosexual love
  • Moving to Montreal
  • Quebec nationalism and human rights
  • Learning from Karl Polanyi
  • Learning from the Frankfort school
  • In dark times
  • Theology after the second intifada
  • Dialogue with Islam
  • Pluralism yes, relativism no
  • Listening to Fernand Dumont
  • The arrival of Pope Francis
  • Towards a pluralistic Catholicism
  • Looking back over your life
  • Your hopeful reading of the Catholic Church
  • Your sinful existence
  • The humanism of your upbringing
  • Troubled theism
  • Deeply rooted in the Catholic tradition
  • Your homosexual orientation
  • A poem for your ninetieth birthday
  • Your identity as a man of many affinities
  • You continue to see yourself as German
  • As a Quebecer have you become a sovereignist?
  • Stephen Harper's remaking of Canada
  • In dark times we pray for God's deliverance
  • The meaning of prayer in your life
  • Thinking of death and resurrection.