Inner Animalities : : Theology and the End of the Human / / Eric Daryl Meyer.

Most theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our supposed uniqueness among earth's creatures-our freedom, our self-awareness, our language, or our rationality. Inner Animalities turns this assumption on its head. Arguing that much theologi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Critical and Historical Animalities
  • 1. Gregory of Nazianzus: Animality and Ascent
  • 2. Gregory of Nyssa: Reading Animality and Desire
  • 3. The Problem of Human Animality in Contemporary Theological Anthropology
  • PART II. Constructive A nimalities
  • 4. Animality and Identity: Human Nature and the Image of God
  • 5. Animality in Sin and Redemption
  • 6. Animality in Eschatological Transformation
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index