From Complicity to Encounter The Church and

Presents a thoughtful and disturbing critique of Western culture obsessed by the "culture of economism," in which economic causes or factors become the main source of cultural meanings and values, thus perpetrating inequality, injustice, and divisions.

PREFACE TO THE SERIES

IX

INTRODUCTION

1

(3)

1. THE CRISIS OF WESTERN CULTURE AND CHRISTIAN MISSION

4

(20)

A Theology of Culture

8

(2)

The Culture of Economism

10

(3)

Economism as Ideology

13

(2)

The Language of Economism

15

(3)

Economism as Metaphor

18

(3)

Economism and Cultural Values

21

(2)

Conclusion

23

(1)

2. CULTURE'S CONSEQUENCES

24

(21)

Globalization and the Disabling of Independent Socioeconomic Systems: The Global/Local Dilemma

28

(5)

The Universalism of Economics and the Undermining of Particular Cultures: The Unity/Diversity Dilemma

33

(4)

Economism as An Authoritarian Threat to Freedom and Participation: The Authority/Freedom Dilemma

37

(3)

Economism and Male Domination: The Masculine/Feminine Dilemma

40

(2)

Conclusion

42

(3)

3. THE CHURCH AND ECONOMISM

45

(18)

Christianity as the Architect of the Culture of Economism

47

(3)

The Roman Catholic Church as the Mirror of Economism

50

(1)

The Church as a Vehicle of Globalization: The Global/Local Dilemma

51

(2)

The Universalism of the Church: The Unity/Diversity Dilemma

53

(3)

Clericalism in the Church: The Authority/Freedom Dilemma

56

(3)

The Male-Domination of the Church: The Masculine/Feminine Dilemma

59

(2)

Conclusion

61

(2)

4. THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL: FROM POWER GAMES TO POWERLESSNESS

63

(18)

The Reception of the Council: Contextual Theologies

66

(6)

The Reception of the Council: Revolution

72

(1)

The Reception of the Council: Resistance

73

(1)

The Reception of the Council: Restorationism

74

(3)

Metanoia: From Power to Service

77

(4)

5. CHRISTIAN MISSION TO THE CULTURE OF ECONOMISM

81

(18)

Mission as Encounter

84

(4)

A Theology of Mission as Encounter

88

(2)

The Encounter with Economism: A Two-Way Evangelization

90

(2)

Aspects of Encounter

92

(7)

CONCLUSION

99

(4)

NOTES

103

(9)

REFERENCES CITED

112

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