This latest collection of Edward Schillebeeckx's essays shows him in a new and perhaps unexpected light as a sympathetic and critical commentator on the latest developments in radical theology.
Based on lectures Professor Schillebeeckx gave during a recent tour of the United States, GOD THE FUTURE OF MAN deals with some of the problems created by the need-which Professor Schillebeeckx accepts-for christianity to be stated in terms intelligible to modern secular culture. It includes an important discussion of the problem of doctrinal development and assessments of the implications of death of God'theology for christian belief and worship. The church's role in politics is also an important theme of the book and Professor Schillebeeckx has interesting things to say about christianity's differences from marxism, and criticises attempts to work out a 'theology of revolution'.