A01=Robert L. Kinast
Author_Robert L. Kinast
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- ISBN 9780761813408
- Weight: 191g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 1999
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Process Catholicism offers an imaginative alternative to the present Catholic ecclesiology that the church in the U.S. currently struggles with, which derives from a one-sided determination of how church relationships should be understood, structured, and carried out. Process thought consists of a dynamic, organic, empirical, aesthetic, and panentheistic worldview that is applied to Jesus' relationships and Vatican II's treatment of the church, utilizing the basic concepts of Alfred North Whitehead's notion of a society. Kinast develops the concept of process Catholicism in terms of an ecclesial environment, a preferential option for novelty, a presumption in favor of new developments and movements within the church, and a process treatment of the major test cases facing the Catholic church, such as the ordination of women, inculturation, and public theological dissent.
Robert L. Kinast is a Catholic priest and is the founder and director of The Center for Theological Reflection, and the publisher of 'The Center Report.'
