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Author Baum, Gregory, 1923-2017, author.

Title The oil has not run dry : the story of my theological pathway / Gregory Baum.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages).
text file
Series Footprints series ; 23
Footprints series (Montréal, Quebec) ; 23.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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 Catholic Church's message. Baum's reflects on his groundbreaking work with the Second Vatican Council (1962 65) and how it helped to open the Church to a new understanding of outsiders--one that advocated cooperation with world religions in support of peace and justice and respected secular philosophies committed to truth and social solidarity. Later embracing Latin American liberation theology, he became a leading thinker of the Catholic Left in Canada, adopting radical positions that initially earned support from Canadian bishops in the 1970s. Diverging from official Catholic doctrines regarding women and sexual ethics, Baum eventually left the priesthood, but continued to teach theology and remained active in the Church. The Oil Has Not Run Dry also discusses the contrast between Catholicism in Quebec and English-speaking North America, and the ways in which Baum sees Quebec's culture as more marked by social solidarity. This significant difference has inspired his decision to present in his own writings the original development of Catholic thought in Quebec to an English-speaking readership. Gregory Baum is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University and the author of Fernand Dumont: A Sociologist Turns to Theology and Truth and Relevance: Catholic Theology in French Quebec since the Quiet Revolution."-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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Subject Baum, Gregory, 1923-2017.
Baum, Gregory, 1923-2017.
Église catholique -- Doctrines.
Theologians -- Canada -- Biography.
Theologians.
Canada.
Catholics -- Canada -- Biography.
Catholics.
Church renewal -- Catholic Church.
Church renewal -- Catholic Church.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Baum, Gregory, 1923- Oil has not run dry. Montreal, Quebec ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017] 9780773548268 (DLC) 2016497880 (OCoLC)956556298
ISBN 9780773599963 (electronic book)
0773599967 (electronic book)
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0773599975 (electronic book)
9780773548268 (cloth)
0773548262 (cloth)