Inner Animalities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inner Animalities write by Eric Daryl Meyer. This book was released on 2018-07-03. Inner Animalities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 theological anthropology contains a deeply anti-ecological impulse, the book draws creatively on historical and scriptural texts to imagine an account of human life centered in our creaturely commonality. The tendency to deny our own human animality leaves our self-understanding riven with contradictions, disavowals, and repressions. How are human relationships transformed when God draws us into communion through our instincts, our desires, and our bodily needs? Meyer argues that humanity’s exceptional status is not the result of divine endorsement, but a delusion of human sin. Where the work of God knits human beings back into creaturely connections, ecological degradation is no longer just a matter of bodily life and death, but a matter of ultimate significance. Bringing a theological perspective to the growing field of Critical Animal Studies, Inner Animalities puts Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner in conversation with Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Kelly Oliver, and Cary Wolfe. What results is not only a counterintuitive account of human life in relation with nonhuman neighbors, but also a new angle into ecological theology.
Inner Animalities
Inner Animalities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inner Animalities write by Eric D. Meyer. This book was released on 2019. Inner Animalities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Inner Animalities' analyses the human-animal distinction as a discursive theme running ubiquitously through Christian theological anthropology.
All God's Animals
All God's Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All God's Animals write by Christopher Steck, SJ. This book was released on 2019-10-01. All God's Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book is the first of its kind to draw together in conversation the views of the early Church, contemporary biblical and theological scholarship, and post-conciliar teachings. Steck develops a comprehensive, Catholic theology of animals based on an in-depth exploration of Catholicism's fundamental doctrines—trinitarian theology, Christology, pneumatology, eschatology, and soteriology. All God's Animals makes two central claims. First, we can hope that God will include animals of the present age in the kingdom inaugurated by Christ. Second, because of this inclusion, our responses to animals should be guided by the values of the kingdom. As Christians await the final liberation of all creation, they are to be witnesses to God’s kingdom by embodying its ideals in their relations with animal life. Because the kingdom's fullness is yet to come and because our world remains marked by the wounds of sin, however, Christian treatment of animals will at times require acts that are at odds with the kingdom’s ideals (for example, those causing suffering and death). Steck examines each of these ideas and explores all of their complexities.
Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis
Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis write by Sune Borkfelt. This book was released on 2022-11-22. Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities.
Catholicity and Emerging Personhood
Catholicity and Emerging Personhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catholicity and Emerging Personhood write by Horan OFM, Daniel P.. This book was released on 2019-09-26. Catholicity and Emerging Personhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
