Bültmann & Gerriets
Inner Animalities: Theology and the End of the Human
von Eric Daryl Meyer
Verlag: Fordham University Press
Reihe: Groundworks: Ecological Issues
Taschenbuch
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8015-5
Erschienen am 03.07.2018
Sprache: Englisch
Format: 226 mm [H] x 152 mm [B] x 20 mm [T]
Gewicht: 340 Gramm
Umfang: 224 Seiten

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"What does it mean to be a creature in the proximity of the realm of God? How might we think of Imago Dei, incarnation, sin, and redemption, relieved of the blinders of human exceptionalism? Eric Daryl Meyer makes an elegant case that the idea of human uniqueness is a sign of human fallenness. He sees and seizes Christian theology's potential to widen how human beings understand ourselves. This book offers that rare gift: a theological way out of the protracted, defensive, and limited need to keep humanity from its God-given animality. In its important theological interventions and conceptualizations, in its vivid and visionary discussions, this book gives me hope."-Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat
"Meyer adds considerable nuance to the more widespread observation that Christian anthropology depends on a notion of animality in its understanding of the human. More clearly than any thinker I've read, Meyer shows that the moment Christian theologians disavow animals often betrays a trace of another way of thinking about animals, humans, and God. He has brought out internal inconsistencies in Christian theological articulations of the human/animal binary in a remarkably fruitful way."-Aaron Gross, University of San Diego
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. Meyer argues that humanity's exceptional status is not the result of divine endorsement, but a delusion of human sin. Bringing a theological perspective to the growing field of Critical Animal Studies, Inner Animalities puts patristic sources and modern theology in conversation with contemporary philosophy. What results is not only a counterintuitive account of human life in relation with nonhuman neighbors, but also a new angle into ecological theology.
Eric Daryl Meyer is Assistant Professor of Theology at Carroll College.



Introduction
Part I
1. Gregory of Nazianzus: Animality and Ascent
2. Gregory of Nyssa: Reading Animality and Desire
3. The Problem of Human Animality in Contemporary Theological Anthropology
Part II
4. Animality and Identity: Human Nature and the Image of God
5. Animality in Human Sin and Redemption
6. Animality in Eschatological Transformation
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index


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