Who Is the Human Being? an Ecumenical Approach to Theological Anthropology (Studies in Theology and Religion)

Širka, Zdenko (EDT)/ Noble, Ivana (EDT)

Brill（2025/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 424 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004732957
• DDC分類 262.001

Full Description

Is being human a given, or is it something one grows into throughout one's life? Is possible to be and to become human without freedom, other people, nature, God? Offering interdisciplinary insights into such questions, this volume draws on the Bible and the classics of Christian traditions, as well as contemporary debates on individualism, social responsibility, gender, and ecology. It explores narratives about human identity, how being and becoming human features in rituals and symbols, and theological models used by Christian anthropology over the centuries It looks at the human in the landscape, culture, and society, at the church, and considers the nature of discernment, formulating and reformulating moral values, and wrestling with new challenges.

Contributors are: Pavol Bargár, Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer, Viorel Coman, Denisa Červenková, Ondřej Fischer, Pavel Hošek, Petr Jandejsek, Ondřej Kolář, Tabita Landová, Ivana Noble, Tim Noble, Libor Ovečka, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Mireia Ryšková, Zdenko Širka, František Štěch, Martin Vaňáč, and Michaela Vlčková.

First published in Czech as Kdo je člověk? Teologická antropologie ekumenicky by Karolinum, Prague, 2021.

Contents

Contents

Foreword

Translator's Note

About the Cover Illustration

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

 Ivana Noble and Zdenko Širka

Part 1 We Are Born into a Life that Was Here Before Us

Introduction to Part 1

1 The Human Being as Relational

 Tim Noble

2 The Human Being and Language

 Zdenko Širka

3 People Living in Stories

 Pavel Hošek and Pavol Bargár

4 The Human Being and Ritual

 Tabita Landová and Michaela Vlčková

5 Being and Understanding in a Symbolic Key

 Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer

Part 2 We Are Who We Become

Introduction to Part 2

6 The Image and Likeness of God

 Ivana Noble

7 The Human Being Alienated and Redeemed

 Mireia Ryšková

8 The Human Being Capable of Discernment

 Denisa Červenková

9 Ethics, Freedom, and Responsibility

 Ondřej Fischer and Libor Ovečka

10 A Theological Perspective on the Question of Gender

 Ivana Noble and Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer

11 The Human Being as a Creature Inhabiting a Landscape

 František Štěch

 12 The Human Being and the Polis
 Petr Jandejsek

13 The Human Being in Time

 Ondřej Kolář and Martin Vaňáč

14 The Church and Eternity

 Viorel Coman

Afterword

Index