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2013 CCED Book Prize winnerHaving left its Christian roots behind, the West faces a moral, spiritual and intellectual crisis. It has little left to maintain its legacy of reason, freedom, human dignity and democracy. Far from capitulating, Jens Zimmermann believes the church has an opportunity to speak a surprising word into this postmodern situation grounded in the Incarnation itself that is proclaimed in Christian preaching and eucharistic celebration.To do so requires that we retrieve an ancient Christian humanism for our time. Only this will acknowledge and answer the general demand for a common humanity beyond religious, denominational and secular divides. Incarnational Humanism thus points the way forward by pointing backward. Rather than resorting to theological novelty, Zimmermann draws on the rich resources found in Scripture and in its theological interpreters ranging from Irenaeus and Augustine to de Lubac and Bonhoeffer.Zimmermann masterfully draws his comprehensive study together by proposing a distinctly evangelical philosophy of culture. That philosophy grasps the link between the new humanity inaugurated by Christ and all of humanity. In this way he holds up a picture of the public ministry of the church as a witness to the world's reconciliation to God.
Contents
Preface1. Without Roots: The Current Malaise of Western CultureThe West's Cultural Heritage: Christianity or Enlightenment?The Exhaustion of SecularismThe Return of Religion2. The Beginnings of Incarnational HumanismGreco-Roman AntecedentsPatristic HumanismChristology and the IncarnationThe Imago DeiThe Heart of Patristic Humanism: DeificationThe Correlation of Reason and FaithThe Fruits of Reason: Education as Transformative Participation in the Divine WordThe Foundation of a Common HumanityEucharistic Humanism and Human SolidarityConclusion3. The Further Development of Christian HumanismMedieval HumanismConclusionRenaissance HumanismIntroductionThe Retrieval of Patristic TheologyThe Incarnation and the Imago DeiHumanistic EducationThe Importance of the IncarnationChristian Humanism after the RenaissanceConclusion4. The Rise of Anti-HumanismThe Beginning of the End: The Unity of Mind and Being in Kant and HegelNietzsche's Anti-Platonism and the Birth of Anti-HumanismNietzsche's Anti-Humanism Heirs: Michel Foucault and Martin HeideggerMartin Heidegger: From Anti-Humanism to Hyper-HumanismConclusion5. Still No Incarnation: From Anti-Humanism to the Postmodern GodLevinas's Humanism of the OtherThe Disincarnate God of Continental PhilosophyGianni Vattimo: Incarnation Without TranscendenceWeak Thought or Weak Theology? Vattimo's Heideggerian ChristianityProblems With Vattimo's Incarnational OntologyConclusion6. Incarnational Humanism as Cultural PhilosophyGod's Presence in the World: Sacred and SecularGod's Presence in the ChurchThe Heart of the Church: The EucharistThe Sacrament of the WordEucharistic Humanism: The Link Between Church and WorldConclusionBibliographyName IndexSubject IndexScripture Index
