The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 5

The Understanding of Faith (1974) is certainly Schillebeeckx''s most incisive English publication on theological hermeneutics. It contains his principal ideas on this subject, in which he progressively evolved the hermeneutic thinking that he was to apply in due course in his famous Jesus books. The book centres on two issues: how should the Christian message of God''s kingdom be read in our day a...