Table of Contents
Significant Dates xi
Part 1 My Theological Pathway 3
1 My Childhood in Berlin 6
2 Coming to Canada 12
3 The Impact of The Confessions of Saint Augustine 17
4 The Discovery of Ecumenical Dialogue 27
5 The Anti-Jewish Rhetoric of Christian Preaching 32
6 The Second Vatican Council 40
7 Salvation in Secular Life 49
8 My Book Man Becoming 53
9 God Is Light 59
10 Dialogue with Sociology 65
11 The Impact of Latin American Liberation Theology 77
12 North America in the 1970s 86
13 Rethinking Sexual Ethics 101
14 The Issue of Homosexual Love 114
15 Moving to Montreal 117
16 Quebec Nationalism and Human Rights 123
17 Learning from Karl Polanyi 129
18 Learning from the Frankfurt School 134
19 In Dark Times 141
20 Theology after the Second Intifada 149
21 Dialogue with Islam 154
22 Pluralism Yes, Relativism No 160
23 Listening to Fernand Dumont 168
24 The Arrival of Pope Francis 174
25 Towards a Pluralistic Catholicism 181
Part 2 Questions and Answers 187
26 Looking Back over Your Life 189
27 Your Hopeful Reading of the Catholic Church 191
28 Your Sinful Existence 193
29 The Humanism of Your Upbringing 195
30 Troubled Theism 198
31 Deeply Rooted in the Catholic Tradition 200
32 Your Homosexual Orientation 208
33 A Poem for Your Ninetieth Birthday 212
34 Your Identity as a Man of Many Affinities 214
35 You Continue to See Yourself as a German 221
36 As a Quebecer Have You Become a Sovereignist? 224
37 Stephen Harper's Remaking of Canada 226
38 In Dark Times We Pray for God's Deliverance 228
39 The Meaning of Prayer in Your Life 230
40 Thinking of Death and Resurrection 234
Personal Bibliography 239
Notes 241
Index 257
