Theological Anthropology In The Anthropocene

Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031210587

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Theological Anthropology in the Anthropocene by Jan-Olav Henriksen Pdf

The Anthropocene presents theology, and especially theological anthropology, with unprecedented challenges. There are no immediately available resources in the theological tradition that reflect directly on such experiences. Accordingly, the situation calls for contextually based theological reflection of what it means to be human under such circumstances. This book discusses the main elements in theological anthropology in light of the fundamental points: a) that theological anthropology needs to be articulated with reference to, and informed by, the concrete historical circumstances in which humanity presently finds itself, and b) that the notion of the Anthropocene can be used as a heuristic tool to describe important traits and conditions that call for a response by humanity, and which entail the need for a renewal of what a Christian self-understanding means. Jan-Olav Henriksen explores what such a response entails from the point of view of contemporary theological anthropology and discusses selected topics that can contribute to a contextually based position.

Author : Celia Deane-Drummond,Sigurd Bergmann,Markus Vogt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718895389

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Religion in the Anthropocene by Celia Deane-Drummond,Sigurd Bergmann,Markus Vogt Pdf

Religion in the Anthropocene charts a new direction in humanities scholarship through serious engagement with the geopolitical concept of the Anthropocene. Drawing on religious studies, theology, social science, history, philosophy, and what can be broadly termed as environmental humanities, this collection represents a groundbreaking critical analysis of diverse narratives on the Anthropocene. The contributors to this volume recognize that the Anthropocene began as a geological concept, the age of the humans, but that its implications are much wider than this. Does the Anthropocene idea challenge the possibility of a sacred Nature, or is it a secularized theological anthropology more properly dealt with through traditional concepts from Roman Catholic social teaching on human ecology? Not all contributors to this volume agree about the answers to these and many more different questions. Readers will be challenged, provoked, and stimulated by this book.

Author : Adam Pryor
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823288328

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Living with Tiny Aliens by Adam Pryor Pdf

Astrobiology is changing how we understand meaningful human existence. Living with Tiny Aliens seeks to imagine how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists when we are planetary creatures situated in deep time—not only on a blue planet burgeoning with life, but in a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities. Working with a series of specific examples drawn from the study of extraterrestrial life, doctrinal reflection on the imago Dei, and reflections on the Anthropocene, Pryor reframes how human beings meaningfully dwell in the world and belong to it. To take seriously the geological significance of human agency is to understand the Earth as not only a living planet but an artful one. Consequently, Pryor reframes the imago Dei, rendering it a planetary system that opens up new possibilities for the flourishing of all creation by fostering technobiogeochemical cycles not subject to runaway, positive feedback. Such an account ensures the imago Dei is not something any one of us possesses, but that it is a symbol for what we live into together as a species in intra-action with the wider habitable environment.

Author : Joshua R. Farris
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493417988

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An Introduction to Theological Anthropology by Joshua R. Farris Pdf

In this thorough introduction to theological anthropology, Joshua Farris offers an evangelical perspective on the topic. Farris walks the reader through some of the most important issues in traditional approaches to anthropology, such as sexuality, posthumanism, and the image of God. He addresses fundamental questions like, Who am I? and Why do I exist? He also considers the creaturely and divine nature of humans, the body-soul relationship, and the beatific vision.

Author : Yves De Maeseneer,Ellen Van Stichel
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823257553

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Questioning the Human by Yves De Maeseneer,Ellen Van Stichel Pdf

Theological anthropology is being put to the test: in the face of contemporary developments in the spheres of culture, politics, and science, traditional perspectives on the human person are no longer adequate. Yet can theological anthropology move beyond its previously established categories and renew itself in relation to contemporary insights? The present collection of essays sets out to answer this question. Uniting Roman Catholic theologians from across the globe, it tackles from a theological perspective challenges related to the classical natural law tradition (part 1), to the modern conception of the subject (part 2), and to the postmodern awareness of diversity in a globalizing context (part 3). Its contributors share a fundamental methodological choice of a critical-constructive dialogue with contemporary culture, science, and philosophy. This collection integrates a wider range of approaches than one usually finds in theological volumes, bringing together experts in systematic theology and in theological ethics. Authors come from different American contexts, including Black and Latino, and from a European context that include both French and German. Moreover, the interdisciplinary insights upon which the different contributions draw stem from both the natural sciences (such as neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and ethology) and the humanities (such as cultural studies, philosophy, and hermeneutics). This volume will be essential reading for anyone seeking a state-of-the-art account of theological anthropology, of the uncertainties it is facing, and of the responses it is in the process of formulating. The shared Roman Catholic background of the authors of this collection makes this volume a helpful complement to recent publications that predominantly represent views from other theological traditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506449418

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Theological Anthropology by Anonim Pdf

Theological Anthropology gathers and translates seminal texts from early Christianity that explore the diversity of theological approaches to the nature and ends of humanity. Readers will gain a sense of how early Christians conceived of and reflected upon humanity and human nature in different theological movements, including Platonism, Gnosticism, asceticism, Pelagianism, Augustinianism, and their legacies in late antiquity and the dawn of the Middle Ages. Theological Anthropology is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice. The books in the series will make the wealth of early Christian thought available to new generations of students of theology and provide a valuable resource for the Church. Developed in light of recent Patristic scholarship, the volumes will provide a representative sampling of theological contributions from both East and West. The series aims to provide volumes that are relevant for a variety of courses: from introduction to theology to classes on doctrine and the development of Christian thought. The goal of each volume is not to be exhaustive, but rather representative enough to denote for a non-specialist audience the multivalent character of early Christian thought, allowing readers to see how and why early Christian doctrine and practice developed the way it did.

Author : F. LeRon Shults
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802848877

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Reforming Theological Anthropology by F. LeRon Shults Pdf

With the profound changes in today's intellectual and scientific landscape, traditional ways of speaking about human nature, sin, and the image of God have lost their explanatory power. In this volume F.LeRon Shults explores the challenges to and opportunities for rethinking current religious views of humankind in contemporary Western culture. From philosophy to theology, from physics to psychology, we find a turn to the categories of "relationality." Shults briefly traces this history from Aristotle to Levinas, showing its impact on the Christian doctrine of anthropology, and he argues that the biblical understanding of humanity has much to contribute to today's dialogue on persons and on human becoming in relation to God and others. Shults's work stands as a potent effort to reform theological anthropology in a way that restores its relevance to contemporary interpretations of the world and our place in it.

Author : Mayra Rivera
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780822374930

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Poetics of the Flesh by Mayra Rivera Pdf

In Poetics of the Flesh Mayra Rivera offers poetic reflections on how we understand our carnal relationship to the world, at once spiritual, organic, and social. She connects conversations about corporeality in theology, political theory, and continental philosophy to show the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and modern Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh.” Her readings of the biblical writings of John and Paul as well as the work of Tertullian illustrate how Christian ideas of flesh influenced the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, and inform her readings of Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, and others. Rivera also furthers developments in new materialism by exploring the intersections among bodies, material elements, social arrangements, and discourses through body and flesh. By painting a complex picture of bodies, and by developing an account of how the social materializes in flesh, Rivera provides a new way to understand gender and race.

Author : Marc Cortez
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310516446

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ReSourcing Theological Anthropology by Marc Cortez Pdf

Theologians working in theological anthropology often claim that Jesus reveals what it means to be "truly human," but this often has little impact in their actual account of anthropology. ReSourcing Theological Anthropology addresses that lack by offering an account of why theological anthropology must begin with Christology. Building off his earlier study on how key theologians in church history have understood the relationship between Christology and theological anthropology, Cortez now develops a new proposal for theological anthropology and applies it to the theological situation today. ReSourcing Theological Anthropology is divided into four sections. The first section explores the relevant Christological/anthropological biblical passages and unpacks how they inform our understanding of theological anthropology. The second section discusses the theological issues raised in the course of surveying the biblical texts. The third section lays out a methodological framework for how to construct a uniquely Christological anthropology. The final section builds on the first three sections and demonstrates the significance of Christology for understanding theological anthropology by applying the methodological framework to several pressing anthropological issues: gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and death and suffering X

Author : Wolfhart Pannenberg
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567081885

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Anthropology in Theological Perspective by Wolfhart Pannenberg Pdf

In this comprehensive study, a renowned theologian examines the anthropological disciplines-human biology, psychology, cultural anthropology, sociology and history-for their religious implications. The result is a theological anthropology that does not derive from dogma or prejudice, but critically evaluates the findings of the disciplines. Pannenberg begins with a consideration of human beings as part of nature; moves on to focus on the human person; and then considers the social world: its culture, history and institutions. All the elements of this multi-faceted study unite in the final chapter on the relation of human beings to their history.

Author : Horan OFM, Daniel P.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608338009

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Catholicity and Emerging Personhood by Horan OFM, Daniel P. Pdf

An exploration of the meaning and identity of the human person in light of a renewed theology of creation, the ongoing discoveries of evolution and natural sciences, and newly appropriated resources in the theological tradition.

Author : Ernst M. Conradie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351958998

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An Ecological Christian Anthropology by Ernst M. Conradie Pdf

What is the place and vocation of human beings in the earth community? This is the central question that this contribution towards a Christian ecological anthropology addresses. In ecological theology this question is often answered by the affirmation that 'We are at home on earth'. This affirmation rightly responds to the widespread sense of alienation from nature, to the anthropocentrism that pervades much of the Christian tradition and to concerns about the scope of environmental devastation. This book challenges the affirmation that we are at home on earth, examining natural suffering, anxieties concerning human finitude and especially the pervasiveness of evil. The book investigates contributions to ecological theology, South African and African theology, reformed theology and contemporary dialogues between theology and the sciences in search of a thoroughly ecological Christian anthropology.

Author : Marc Cortez
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567034328

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Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed by Marc Cortez Pdf

A guide to the most challenging issues that face anyone studying theological anthropology.

Author : Jonathan Cole,Peter Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666903232

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Theology on a Defiant Earth by Jonathan Cole,Peter Walker Pdf

Humanity operates like a force of nature capable of affecting the destiny of the Earth System. This epochal shift profoundly alters the relationship between humankind and the Earth, presenting the conscious, thinking human animal with an unprecedented dilemma: As human power has grown over the Earth, so has the power of nature to extinguish human life. The emergence of the Anthropocene has settled any question of the place of human beings in the world: we stand inescapably at its center. The outstanding question—which forms the impetus and focus for this book—remains: What kind of human being stands at the center of the world? And what is the nature of that world? Unlike the scientific fact of human-centeredness, this is a moral question, a question that brings theology within the scope of reflection on the critical failures of human irresponsibility. Much of Christian theology has so far flunked the test of engaging the reality of the Anthropocene. The authors of these original essays begin with the premise that it is time to push harder at the questions the Anthropocene poses for people of faith.

Author : Timothy Howles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : 1788270711

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Responding Faithfully to the Environmental Crisis by Timothy Howles Pdf