Dust that breathes
Subtitle: Christian faith and the new humanisms
By: William Schweiker
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781444335354
Subjects: Religiösa aspekter; Kristendom; Christlicher Humanismus; Humanism; Christianity and religious humanism; Theologische Anthropologie
Description: "Dust that breaths argues for Christianity's continuing relevance in meeting the challenges of humanistic reflection in the global age. In it, Schweiker discusses and expands upon the distincitve arguments for theological humanism that he has developed with passion and eloquence. Part I develops the resoures of Christian theological anthropology in response to debates over the nature of religious identity, the labor of conscience, the meaning of the soul in religious and scientific discourse, and other topics. Part II engages prominent contemporary theologians and philosophers (including Paul Ricoeur, Iris Murdoch, Paul Tillich, Juergen Motmann, and others) in order to claify the distinctive shape of Christian humanistic commetment."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The specter of religious identity; title: Humanizing religion; title: Conscience and spiritual conviction; title: Metaphors of the soul; title: Voices of neohumanism; title: The Christ of Christian humanism; title: Human only human?; title: Goodness and fictive persons; title: Reverence for life, the spirit of life; title: Sovereign expressions of life; title: Ecstatic humanism; title: On Christian and theological humanism.