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Revelations of Humanity - Anthropological Dimensions of Theological Controversies (Hardcover)
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Revelations of Humanity - Anthropological Dimensions of Theological Controversies (Hardcover)
Series: Thomistic Ressourcement Series
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Revelations of Humanity brings together essays into the history and
actuality of how our searches for God and for our own humanity are
interwoven. They argue that the revelation of God is possible only
when accompanied by a revelation of what it means to be a human
being. Revelation implies that the truth is not fully evident in
either case. This quest is aided in many of the essays by a
recollection of the thought of Thomas Aquinas. As opposed to simple
memory, recollection implies that memory has been lost or become
clouded, here by the misrepresentation of Thomas' view of
humanity's relation to God as harmonistic, at best semi-Pelagian,
often even naturalistic. This difficult recovery is made possible
by historical research that alone can escape the easy systematic
alienation that supporters and critics of Thomas have often brought
to their interpretation of his works. Thomas's sense of a real but
finite capacity of human beings for God, his grace and revelation,
anticipates in more ways than is commonly known much of
contemporary suspicion about human capacities, but in ways that are
open to God. That programmatic insight into the historical Thomas,
keenly aware of human entanglements, limits and hopes, offers on
many contemporary issues a ressourcement of systematic thought.
Revelations of Humanity revolves around three clusters of issues.
The first asks about the reality and limits of the human capacity
for truth: in metaphysical, moral and political matters and in
relation to the disputed issues of analogous reason and faith. The
second cluster is structured around the four involvements that the
Second Vatican Council identified as the human face of genuine
Christian existence: participation in the legitimate joys, hopes,
sorrows and fears of the contemporary world. These are refracted in
the broken light of the human proprium of risibility, the abiding
uncertainty addressed by hope, the disputed question of a suffering
God and the recollection of Christ's anxiety in the face of death.
The final cluster brings together anthropological dimensions of
current ecumenical and interreligious disputes: the need to
complement affirmation with admonition in ecumenical conversation,
exemplified by the ambivalence towards sacrifice in a genuinely
Catholic theology and the need to avoid the excesses of univocity,
equivocity or an all too facile analogy in the determination of
interreligious relationalities.
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