Piet Schoonenberg
Piet Schoonenberg,
Biography
Born in Amsterdam on 1 October 1911, Schoonenberg was 19 years old when, on 7 September 1930, he entered the Jesuit novitiate of Mariëndaal in Velp, Netherlands. He went on to study theology and philosophy in Nijmegen (at the Berchmanianum), in Maastricht, and in Rome (at the Pontifical Biblical Institute). He was ordained as a priest on 15 August 1939.[1][2]
Schoonenberg obtained a doctorate in theology in 1948, with a dissertation on "Theology as an Articulation of Faith" (Theologie als geloofsverkondiging),
Schoonenberg was a prolific author, and achieved international renown within his own lifetime, with many of his works being translated into English and other languages.
Theological views
- Original sin: For Schoonenberg – in Man and Sin – original sin is not so much the consequence of a single act of disobedience by Adam and Eve which deprived all succeeding generations of divine grace, but rather is the "sin of the world": a negative situation and atmosphere caused by the accumulation of human sins. Any human being placed in this situation from birth is negatively influenced in the exercise of his personal freedom, with the result that he cannot refrain from sinning.[4]
- Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith found it necessary to defend the traditional doctrine in its 1972 declaration Mysterium Filii Dei.[2]
- immanent Trinity, the eternal triune existence of God. The true and eternal nature of God is unknowable and irrelevant.[5]Strongly criticized, he later qualified his Trinitarian conception. His proposal nonetheless contributed to new theological debates on the relationship between the so-called "economic Trinity" and "immanent Trinity".
Works
Works available in English translation include:
- God's World in the Making, Duquesne University Press, 1964
- Man and Sin: A Theological View, Sheed and Ward, 1965 (translation of De macht der zonde, 1962)
- Covenant and Creation, Sheed and Ward, 1968 (translation of Het geloof van ons doopsel, 1955–58)
- The Christ: A Study of the God-Man Relationship in the Whole of Creation and in Jesus Christ, Herder and Herder, 1971 (translation of Hij is een God van mensen, 1966)
Other Dutch-language works include:
- "Theology als geloofsvertolking" ["Theology as an Articulation of Faith"], 1948 dissertation
- De geest, het woord en de zoon [The Spirit, the Word and the Son], 1991
- De Christus "van boven" en de christologie "van beneden" [The Christ "From Above" and the Christology "From Below"], 1992
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-567-03410-6.
- ^ ISBN 0-7876-4004-2.
- ^ a b Mettepenningen 2010, p. 127
- ISBN 0-8091-4128-0.
- ISBN 90-429-1388-6.
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