※　十字架のアイロニーから科学を照らす、ティリッヒ神学とラテンアメリカの出会い　※

本書は、エドゥアルド・R・クルスによる学位論文であり、パウル・ティリッヒとラングドン・ギルキーが遺した「文化の神学」という方法論の精髄を体現しつつ、ラテンアメリカ文化における科学を主題とした独創的な研究です。著者はこの神学的伝統の第三世代の担い手として位置づけられ、二人の先達が扱わなかった文化的領域、すなわち著者自身の出自であるラテンアメリカ文化へとその枠組みを拡張するとともに、プロテスタント新正統主義の伝統に、自らの拠って立つローマ・カトリック神学の資源を加えている点に独自性があります。ラテンアメリカにおける文化的な力としての科学について、これまでで最も説得力があり包括的な神学的解釈を提示する本書は、科学と文化の関係が深いレベルにおいて両義性によって特徴づけられるという命題を提起し、その考察は著者自身の文化的経験に根ざしながらも北米やヨーロッパなど他の文化圏にも敷衍しうる射程を持っています。全体は科学における両義性の考察、ティリッヒ神学に基づく両義性理解の構築、十字架による両義性の克服、科学におけるユートピア主義、そしてラテンアメリカにおける科学の受容と抵抗という五章から構成されています。

[対象年代、研究分野]
対象年代は20世紀後半から21世紀初頭の現代であり、該当する研究分野は宗教学・組織神学(ティリッヒ研究)、科学と宗教の関係論、ラテンアメリカ思想史、文化神学などです。これらの分野を専門とする読者を対象としています。
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Description:
In this dissertation, Eduardo Cruz offers a brilliant and original study of science in Latin American culture that is a quintessential example of the ‘theology of culture’ methodology that Paul Tillich and Langdon Gilkey have bequeathed to us. Cruz stands as a third-generation representative ofthis way ofdoing theology -all the more suggestive because he extends their program to cultural phenomena with which they were unacquainted, his own culture of Latin America, and he works from his own Roman Catholic theological resources, thus augmenting their neo-orthodox protestant tradition.

What the author has produced stands as the most forceful and comprehensive theological interpretation of science as a cultural force in Latin America yet to appear. Furthermore, although it grows specifically out of his own cultural experience, and even though it is not directly transferable to other cultures, its investigations and conclusions transcend their Latin American roots. He propounds a thesis concerning the relationship between science and culture, namely that it is marked by ambivalence at a profound level, that can profitably be examined and elaborated with respect to other cultures, specifically those of North America and Europe.


CONTENTS:

Introduction to the Edwin Mellen Edition......i
Acknowledgments......ix
Preface......xi
List of abbreviations......xix

Introduction
‘On the Shoulders of Giants’......1

Chapter I. Of ambivalence and its manifestation in science......19
Introduction......19
Ambivalence: Preliminary Remarks......25
Interlude: Ambivalence in Science vs. Ambivalence of Science......30
Toward the Idea of Ambivalence of Science......40
Ambivalence of Science/Technology as Viewed by Theologians......55
Camposing the Picture: Ambivalence and Its Related Concepts......64
The Tragic and the ‘Solemnity’ of Ambivalence......76
Conclusion......80

Chapter II. Elements for a theological Understanding of Ambivalence, drawn Particularly from Paul Tillich......83
Introduction......83
Biblica Themes......86
Ambivalence (Ambiguity) in the Thought of Paul Tillich......106
Conclusion......147
Interlude: Christian Symbols that Indicate the Revealing and the Overcoming of Ambivalence......148

Chapter III. The Cross and the Overcoming of Ambivalence......151
Introduction: Some Remarks on the Cross vis-à-vis Tillich’s Thought and the Adamic Myth......151
Two Ways of Approaching the Symbol of the Cross......154
Revealing and Overcoming the Tragic Character of Human Greatness......156
Irony (Especially in John): Ambivalence Revealed and Overcomo......162
Interlude: Freedom, Fate, and the Jesus of History......168
The Reversal of Meaning in the Thought of Hegel......169
The Wisdom of God: Irony and Tragedy......180
Conclusion......183
From General Principles to Concrete Applications: The Ambivalence of Science......185

Chapter IV. Utopianism in Science and its Ambivalence......187
Introduction......187
Science and Utopianismo......188
Paul Tillich: Tuopianism Lost and Regained......213
Conclusion......238

Chapter V. Science in Latin America: ‘The Missionaries are Evangelized’......243
Introduction......243
The ‘Hostile Environment’: Resistance to Scientific Activity......246
The Ignored People and the Ambivalence of Science......262
The Dilemma between Identiy and Change, and the Prospects for Theology and Science......273
Conclusion......279

Conclusion......283
Selected bibliography......295
Additional references......317
Author index......325
Subject index......330