Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - Anthropology

This book seeks to amplify approaches native to philosophy, literature, and the social sciences regarding contemporary discourse on identity by supplementing them with theological reflection. It develops a proposal for the theological understanding of identity, which imagines the relationship of self to others not in terms of threat but rather as an irreducible element in the fulfilment of personal identity.

Prudentius' Psychomachia, written about A.D. 405, has been studied by classicists, medievalists, and general literary historians. Nevertheless, scholars have barely explored the allegory's inner workings or related it to its historical context. The present study remedies this critical neglect and its attendant misreadings.

The author arrives at a coherent, unified interpretation by examining the work's major features in relation to the poet's life and times. He contends that the poet balanced an affirmation of Christian allegory with an ironic negation of pagan literary...

Recent research in the philosophy of religion, anthropology, and philosophy of mind has prompted the need for a more integrated, comprehensive, and systematic theology of human nature. This project constructively develops a theological accounting of human persons by drawing from a Cartesian (as a term of art) model of anthropology, which is motivated by a long tradition. As was common among patristics, medievals, and Reformed Scholastics, Farris draws from philosophical resources to articulate Christian doctrine as he approaches theological anthropology. Exploring a substance dualism...

The question of the structure of the human person is central to many mystical authors in the Christian tradition. This book focuses on the specific anthropology of a series of key authors in the mystical tradition in the medieval and early modern Low Countries. Their view is fundamentally different from the anthropology that has commonly been accepted since the rise of Modernity. This book explores the most important mystical authors and texts from the Low Countries including: William of Saint-Thierry, Hadewijch, Pseudo-Hadewijch, John of Ruusbroec, Jan van Leeuwen, Hendrik Herp,...

Die medizinethische Diskussion steht in der Gefahr unter einem fortschreitenden Rechtsdruck das anthropologische Grundphanomen des Sterbens immer mehr aus dem Blick zu verlieren. Sollen Sterben und Tod nicht zur Projektionsflache diffuser Angste und Befurchtungen werden, dann ist es dringend erforderlich, die verschiedenen Dimensionen der Begegnung des Menschen mit seiner eigenen Sterblichkeit moglichst vorurteilsfrei auszuleuchten. Der interdisziplinare Aufbau des vorliegenden Bandes ermoglicht nicht nur einen Einblick in die Komplexitat der weithin verdrangten Thematik des Sterbens,...