The mind of Christ
Subtitle: humility and the intellect in early Christian theology
By: Stephen T. Pardue
Series: T & T Clark studies in systematic theology -- volume 23; T & T Clark studies in systematic theology -- v. 23.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780567420589; 9780567220356; 9780567343802
Subjects: History; Kenosis; Theology; Early church; Demut; Humility; Christianity; Middle Ages; Frühchristentum
Description: "This book brings a variety of theological resources to bear on the now widespread effort to put humility in its proper place. In recent years, an assortment of thinkers have offered competing evaluations of humility, so that its moral status is now more contentious than ever. Like all accounts of humility, the one advanced in this study has to do with the proper handling of human limits. What early Christian resources offer, and what discussions of the issue since the eighteenth century have often overlooked, is an account of the ways in which human limits are permeable, superable and open to modification because of the working of divine grace. This notion is especially relevant for a renewed vision of intellectual humility-the primary aim of the project-but the study will also suggest the significance of the argument for ameliorating contemporary concerns about humility's generally adverse effects."--
Notes: Minimal Level Cataloging Plus.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: The theological value of the "forgotten virtue"; title: In the form of a servant : humility in canonical context; title: Humility and acquaintance with God : Gregory of Nyssa and early Christian tradition; title: Kenosis and its discontents : toward an account of divine humility; title: Christ and curiositas : intellectual humility and the transforming of human limits.