Anthropology : seeking light and beauty / Susan A. Ross ; Tatha Wiley, series editor.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Engaging theologyPublication details: Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, c2012.Description: xvii, 166 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780814659946
  • 0814659942
  • 9780814680001 (ebook)
  • 0814680003 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 233 R733a
LOC classification:
  • BT 701.3 .R68 2012
Contents:
Ancient resources on being human. Biblical resources -- Early Christianity on being human -- Resources from the medieval and Reformation periods. Medieval thought -- The Reformation -- Resources from modernity. The desire for knowledge -- The desire for freedom -- Christian selfhood and postmodernity. Characteristics of postmodern selfhood -- Christian theological engagement with postmodernity -- The beauty of embodiment : body and sexuality. The body -- Sex -- The human capacity for evil and the hope for salvation. The human capacity for and propensity to evil -- Understanding the perpetrators of evil -- Victims of evil -- Witnesses to evil -- Theology, science, and human personhood. What makes us the imago Dei? -- Animals and human beings -- Human beings and the world around us -- Neuroscience and the human -- Technology, medicine, and the human person -- Conclusion : seeking light and beauty.
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Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 233 R733a (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

"A Michael Glazier book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ancient resources on being human. Biblical resources -- Early Christianity on being human -- Resources from the medieval and Reformation periods. Medieval thought -- The Reformation -- Resources from modernity. The desire for knowledge -- The desire for freedom -- Christian selfhood and postmodernity. Characteristics of postmodern selfhood -- Christian theological engagement with postmodernity -- The beauty of embodiment : body and sexuality. The body -- Sex -- The human capacity for evil and the hope for salvation. The human capacity for and propensity to evil -- Understanding the perpetrators of evil -- Victims of evil -- Witnesses to evil -- Theology, science, and human personhood. What makes us the imago Dei? -- Animals and human beings -- Human beings and the world around us -- Neuroscience and the human -- Technology, medicine, and the human person -- Conclusion : seeking light and beauty.

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