scholarly journals Not Difference, but Distance: Theological Anthropology on the Other

2019 ◽  
Vol null (34) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Lee, Jinhyon
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Other

Athens Engaging Jerusalem

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Rynkiewich
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Fragmented Self ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Maximus The Confessor ◽  
Theological Thinking

This chapter proposes that the emergence of the individual is often credited to theological anthropology filtered through the Enlightenment. This concept has been reshaped with secular meaning, yet critical theological thinking continues to enhance our understanding of the person. Pannenberg’s exocentricism situates the formation of the person in relationship to the Other. Moltmann’s work on the fragmented self confirms the possibility of change, offering hope to a discipline where it is sadly lacking. The embodiment of the soul in a non-dualistic, non-reductionist theology recovers the Eastern Church Fathers, particularly Maximus the Confessor, in their understanding of the goal of participation in God through participation in the Other.

David Kelsey, Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009), pp. 1092. $79.95.

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-463
Author(s):  
Tom Greggs
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
Liberal Theology ◽  
Hans Frei ◽  
Magnum Opus

Without doubt, David Kelsey's Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology (henceforth, EE) is one of the most significant and important contributions to the field of theology from this generation of theologians. The two-volume work of over a thousand pages (really one volume bound into two books because of its size) is Kelsey's magnum opus, and arises from more than three decades of study and thought. It addresses directly and (properly) theologically central issues relating to humanity in relation to God and to creation (‘all that is not God’). This book has arisen within a theological setting of conversations with other members of the ‘Yale school’ (Hans Frei and George Lindbeck). Yet, there is a sense in which this book surpasses what that school of thought has offered thus far, not by beginning on an altogether different theological path, but by journeying further, and bringing what that theological approach has to offer to bear on one doctrinal locus in a way which the other key proponents of post-liberal theology have not yet done: Kelsey moves from discussing a theological method to using that theological method more fully and directly than has previously been the case in relation to the theological content of a single theological issue.

scholarly journals Keindahan dalam Disabilitas

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-60
Author(s):  
Isabella Novsima Sinulingga
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Constructive Theology ◽  
Inclusive Theology ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

This article challenges conceptions of intellectual disability that view such conditions from the perspective of normalcy. In Indonesia, conversations of theological anthropology still employ a medical model lens, which perceives disability merely as bodily and intellectual impairments, thus failing the standard of "normal." Normalcy unilaterally defines disability and dictates normative approaches toward persons with disabilities. Consequently, persons with disabilities are perceived in Indonesia as mere objects of charity to be pitied. On the other hand, they remain susceptible to suffering violence. These trends owing to the fact that Indonesian society does not adequately provide either tangible resource considerations or sufficient social support. Lacunae in the theological literature concerning disability in Indonesian contexts foment in the life of the church further challenges for persons with disabilities. For persons there with intellectual disabilities, in particular, the situation is even more severe, as their condition is regarded as a kind of punishment for sin and further stigmatized as abnormal. This article offers a constructive theology of disability to dismantle the myth of normalcy, which reduces persons with disabilities to being merely impaired organisms within society. Theological musings on the beauty of all creation, the perichoretic relationship within the Trinity, the doctrines of imago Dei and imago Christi are taken up in this essay, to offer an inclusive theology expressly for persons with intellectual disabilities.

scholarly journals Fulfillment and Complementarity: Reflections on Relationship in “Gifts and Calling”

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Procario-Foley
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Dynamic ◽  
Binary Approach ◽  
Reign Of God ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
The Relationship

This article assesses how well two key terms in the 2015 Vatican statement, "The Gifts and the Calling of God Are Irrevocable" really contribute to the deepening of authentic friendship between post-Nostra Aetate Jews and Christians. Are the soteriologically and anthropologically freighted words "fulfillment" and "complementarity" so coded with a binary approach to relationship as to subvert this very laudable goal of the document? "Gifts and Calling" seems to want to define the Catholic-Jewish relationship as one of equals but its use of fulfillment language throughout calls into question whether it really envisions a relationship between equals. "Complementarity" is also problematic since that term almost always reinscribes an unequal power dynamic in which one side of the relationship, the “weaker” or “lesser” party fixed in a particular essence, needs to be completed by the other side. The article argues that questions of theological anthropology, teleology, morality, and theodicy need to be defined by each community on its own terms. It asks if there is a way to salvage the language of fulfillment and complementarity to foster a genuine mutuality between Jews and Christians as friends and pilgrims concerned for the reign of God in their distinct ways.

Wolfhart Pannenberg, Openness to the World, and the Sensus Divinitatis

2021 ◽  
pp. 002114002110177
Author(s):  
Andrew Hollingsworth
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Alvin Plantinga ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
Innate Knowledge ◽  
Sensus Divinitatis ◽  
Wolfhart Pannenberg

One of the foundational concepts for Wolfhart Pannenberg’s theological anthropology is his notion of ‘openness to the world.’ Openness to the world, according to Pannenberg, is essential to human identity in that one’s identity is established in their openness to the world, to the other, and, ultimately, to God. I aim to bring Pannenberg’s openness to the world into dialogue with the concept of the sensus divinitatis as articulated by John Calvin and further developed by Alvin Plantinga. The question driving this paper is whether or not Pannenberg’s openness to the world can rightly be understood as the sensus divinitatis, and, if so, what might be some benefits of it. I conclude that Pannenberg’s understanding of openness to the world is a fruitful way of understanding the sensus divinitatis and a fruitful way of arguing for and explaining humanity’s innate knowledge of God.

Freedom, Responsibility, and Moral Agency

2019 ◽  
pp. 305-320
Author(s):  
Gerald McKenny
Keyword(s):  
Basic Principle ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
The Other

The concepts of freedom, responsibility, and moral agency are tightly interwoven in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s thought and have to do with the relation of subject to the other that is at the centre of Bonhoeffer’s ethics and theological anthropology. This chapter presents and critically examines these three concepts. It argues that Bonhoeffer’s key notion of responsibility for the other (that is, liability) is an important and permanent contribution to Christian ethics. It also argues that Bonhoeffer’s notions of the responsibility of the agent (that is, imputability) and the agent’s responsibility to the other (that is, accountability) are attenuated, to the detriment of his ethics. Finally, the chapter argues that Bonhoeffer’s treatment of vicarious representative action as an expression of responsibility for the other is more ambiguous and less suited to be a basic principle of social ethics than Bonhoeffer supposes.

scholarly journals What Makes Us Human? The Lutheran Anthropological Link Between Wingren and Ricoeur

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 308-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bengt Kristensson Uggla
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Abstract This paper explores the link between the extra nos in Gustaf Wingren’s theological anthropology and the homo capax in Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical anthropology, considered as two creative receptions of the tradition from Luther. I will argue that the reason that we find such synergies between these two thinkers, even though neither of them ever referred to the other, has to do with their common roots in, and their contributions to rethink, the tradition from the Reformation. Wingren takes his specific place in twentieth century theology as an angry critic of the dominant anti-liberal movements that took the distinctively Christian-in opposition to what we all share as human beings-as methodological startingpoint when understanding the Christian faith, and as an alternative he developed understanding of what it means to be human by starting “outside” oneself. Ricoeur’s philosophical position is developed as a creative alternative to both humanist and anti-humanist approaches, expressed as a wounded cogito capable of imagining “onself as another.” Taken together, these two thinkers provide us with a profound dialectical way of thinking what it means to be human by bringing together a de-centered self and a centered self as integral parts of a wider dialectics.

Anthropology

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-209
Author(s):  
Rachel Muers
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Uniqueness

Bonhoeffer’s theological anthropology begins not with the isolated individual, nor with an understanding of ‘human being’ in general, but with the call of the other that summons the human being into free responsibility. It also begins in the middle of the human story—with created, fallen, and redeemed humanity receiving its identity through the encounter with Christ. In this chapter I connect the anthropological themes of Bonhoeffer’s poetry from prison with his wider theological project. I indicate how Bonhoeffer’s anthropology connects him to key ongoing debates in philosophy and theology, and opens up critical conversations with Bonhoeffer around gender and around human uniqueness.

Stromatoporoids from the Famennian (Devonian) Wabamun Formation, Normandville oilfield, north–central Alberta, Canada

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (03) ◽  
pp. 411-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin W. Stearn
Keyword(s):  
Patch Reef ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
North Central ◽  
Biotic Crisis

Stromatoporoids are the principal framebuilding organisms in the patch reef that is part of the reservoir of the Normandville field. The reef is 10 m thick and 1.5 km2in area and demonstrates that stromatoporoids retained their ability to build reefal edifices into Famennian time despite the biotic crisis at the close of Frasnian time. The fauna is dominated by labechiids but includes three non-labechiid species. The most abundant species isStylostroma sinense(Dong) butLabechia palliseriStearn is also common. Both these species are highly variable and are described in terms of multiple phases that occur in a single skeleton. The other species described areClathrostromacf.C. jukkenseYavorsky,Gerronostromasp. (a columnar species), andStromatoporasp. The fauna belongs in Famennian/Strunian assemblage 2 as defined by Stearn et al. (1988).

D. The Line Spectrum of Pulsating Variable Stars

1967 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 207-244
Author(s):  
R. P. Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Variable Stars ◽  
The Other ◽  
Line Spectrum ◽  
Afternoon Session ◽  
Empirical Information ◽  
Pulsating Variable Stars ◽  
Almost Continuous ◽  
Informal Approach

(Ed. note:Encouraged by the success of the more informal approach in Christy's presentation, we tried an even more extreme experiment in this session, I-D. In essence, Kraft held the floor continuously all morning, and for the hour and a half afternoon session, serving as a combined Summary-Introductory speaker and a marathon-moderator of a running discussion on the line spectrum of cepheids. There was almost continuous interruption of his presentation; and most points raised from the floor were followed through in detail, no matter how digressive to the main presentation. This approach turned out to be much too extreme. It is wearing on the speaker, and the other members of the symposium feel more like an audience and less like participants in a dissective discussion. Because Kraft presented a compendious collection of empirical information, and, based on it, an exceedingly novel series of suggestions on the cepheid problem, these defects were probably aggravated by the first and alleviated by the second. I am much indebted to Kraft for working with me on a preliminary editing, to try to delete the side-excursions and to retain coherence about the main points. As usual, however, all responsibility for defects in final editing is wholly my own.)

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