|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
Prioritizes survivors of abuse by reexamining Christian ideals
about suffering and salvation More than half of women and almost
one in three of men in the United States have experienced sexual
violence at some time in their lives. Yet our Christian tradition
has failed survivors of sexual violence, who have been taught to
believe that traumatic suffering brings us closer to God.
Incarnating Grace attempts to save our broken ways of talking about
God’s grace by unearthing liberating resources buried in the
Christian tradition. Christian ideas about salvation have
historically contributed to sexual violence in our communities by
reinforcing the idea that suffering is salvific. But a God worth
worshiping does not want human beings to suffer. Drawing on the
sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila as well as
contemporary political and feminist theologians, philosophers, and
legal scholars, author and Associate Professor of theology Julia
Feder offers an account of Christian salvation as
mystical-political. Feder begins by describing the breadth of
traumatic wounding and the shape of traumatic recovery, as
articulated by psychologists. Since the fullness of post-traumatic
healing requires reserves deeper than those which can be
articulated by the secular field of psychology alone, the book then
introduces the Spanish Carmelite Saint Teresa of Avila and her
theological insights, which are most helpful for constructing a
post-traumatic theology of healing. Arguing that God stands against
violence and suffering, the book also examines the notion of
“senseless suffering,” a technical term that comes from Edward
Schillebeeckx, a Catholic twentieth-century Flemish priest and
theologian. The suffering of sexual violence serves no higher
purpose or greater human value and pushes against all ways of
making sense of the world as good and orderly. In the following
chapters, Feder turns to two Christian virtues that animate
post-traumatic recovery, courage and hope, and explores how
Christian hope can provide a language to empower courageous
activity undertaken toward healing. Incarnating Grace opens a new
dialogue about salvation and violence that does not allow evil to
have the last word.
Prioritizes survivors of abuse by reexamining Christian ideals
about suffering and salvation More than half of women and almost
one in three of men in the United States have experienced sexual
violence at some time in their lives. Yet our Christian tradition
has failed survivors of sexual violence, who have been taught to
believe that traumatic suffering brings us closer to God.
Incarnating Grace attempts to save our broken ways of talking about
God’s grace by unearthing liberating resources buried in the
Christian tradition. Christian ideas about salvation have
historically contributed to sexual violence in our communities by
reinforcing the idea that suffering is salvific. But a God worth
worshiping does not want human beings to suffer. Drawing on the
sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila as well as
contemporary political and feminist theologians, philosophers, and
legal scholars, author and Associate Professor of theology Julia
Feder offers an account of Christian salvation as
mystical-political. Feder begins by describing the breadth of
traumatic wounding and the shape of traumatic recovery, as
articulated by psychologists. Since the fullness of post-traumatic
healing requires reserves deeper than those which can be
articulated by the secular field of psychology alone, the book then
introduces the Spanish Carmelite Saint Teresa of Avila and her
theological insights, which are most helpful for constructing a
post-traumatic theology of healing. Arguing that God stands against
violence and suffering, the book also examines the notion of
“senseless suffering,” a technical term that comes from Edward
Schillebeeckx, a Catholic twentieth-century Flemish priest and
theologian. The suffering of sexual violence serves no higher
purpose or greater human value and pushes against all ways of
making sense of the world as good and orderly. In the following
chapters, Feder turns to two Christian virtues that animate
post-traumatic recovery, courage and hope, and explores how
Christian hope can provide a language to empower courageous
activity undertaken toward healing. Incarnating Grace opens a new
dialogue about salvation and violence that does not allow evil to
have the last word.
Since the middle of the last century, the emergence and development
of fields as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolutionary
science, cognitive linguistics, and neuroscience have led to a
greater understanding of the ways in which humans think. One of the
major discoveries involves what researchers refer to as conceptual
mapping. According to theories of conceptual mapping, human thought
is profoundly shaped by the ability to make connections. Simply
put, human thinking is metaphorical all the way down. This insight
has revolutionized the way in which scientists and philosophers
think about the mind/body problem, the formation and function of
language, and even the development of scientific progress itself.
Until recently however, this research has gone largely unnoticed
within Christian theology. But this revolution in understanding
human cognition calls for broader and richer engagement with
theology and religious studies: How does this new insight into
human meaning-making bear on our understanding of religious
meaning-making? And how might Christian theology interpret and
respond to this new understanding of the development of human
thought? This edited volume offers an introduction to conceptual
mapping that is accessible to those with no previous knowledge of
the field, and demonstrates the substantial resources this
interdisciplinary research has for thinking about a variety of
theological questions. The book begins with a chapter introducing
the reader to the basics of conceptual mapping. The remaining
chapters apply these insights to a variety of theological topics
including anthropology, sacramental theology, biblical studies,
ecumenical theology, and ethics.
|
The Evolution of Human Wisdom (Hardcover)
Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustin Fuentes; Contributions by Marcus Baynes-Rock, Dylan Belton, Ben Campbell, …
|
R3,643
Discovery Miles 36 430
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
This volume addresses key questions about the puzzle of human
origins by focusing on a topic that is largely unexplored thus far,
namely, the evolution of human wisdom. How can we best understand
the human capacity for wisdom, where did it come from, and how did
it emerge? It explores lines of convergence and divergence between
Christian theology and evolutionary anthropology in its search to
identify different aspects of wisdom. Critical to this discussion
are the philosophical difficulties that arise when two very
different methodological approaches to the manner of humans
becoming wise are brought together. The relative importance and
significance of human language is another area of intense debate in
defining the meaning of wisdom and its expression. How far and to
what extent does a theologically informed wisdom discourse push
evolutionary anthropology to formulate new questions and vice
versa? This volume shows that there is no simple consonance between
evolutionary anthropology and theology. Yet, each discipline has
much to learn from the other; the authors are in agreement that
even in the midst of an awareness of dissonance and some tension,
there can still be mutual respect. The goal of this book is to
begin to develop a trans-disciplinary approach to the evolution of
human wisdom, where each discipline is challenged to ask questions
in a new way. This volume tackles the relationship between theology
and science in a fresh way by focusing on a specific
theme-wisdom-that is equally generative for both theology and
evolutionary anthropology.
|
|