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Title

God and human dignity / edited by R. Kendall Soulen and Linda Woodhead.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Soulen, R. Kendall, 1959-
• Woodhead, Linda

Description

xiv, 341 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In God and Human Dignity, theologians, ethicists, and biblical scholars from around the world offer a fresh restatement of the nature and scope of human dignity using the best resources of the Christian tradition. In contrast to modernity's often monochromatic accounts of human dignity in terms of freedom or rationality, these essays argue that dignity in Christian perspective is a "many-splendored thing" reflecting humanity's participation in the divine drama of creation, redemption, and new creation. In the course of their discussion, the authors address a wide range of current issues related to human dignity, from economic globalization and evolutionary theory to severe disability and biotechnology."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Dignity > Christianity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: -- Contextualizing human dignity / R. Kendall Soulen and Linda Woodhead -- The Source and Scope of Human Dignity: -- The self in the Psalms and the image of God / James Luther Mays -- Recovering human dignity / Christoph Schwöbel -- Anima ecclesiastica / Robert W. Jenson -- Covenantal anthropology : integrating three contemporary discourses of human dignity / H. Russel Botman -- Creation: -- Anthropology in an evolutionary context / John Polkinghorne -- Cruising toward Bethlehem : human dignity and the new eugenics / R. Kendall Soulen -- Human dignity in the absence of agency / Hans S. Reinders -- Redemption: -- The logic of indignity and the logic of redemption / Peter Ochs -- Land, displacement, and hope in Jeremiah and in today's world / Esther Marie Menn -- God's promise for humanity in the New Testament / C. Clifton Black -- The economy of grace : human dignity in the market system / M. Douglas Meeks -- Repetition, or the theological failures of modern dignity discourse : the case of Frederick Douglass's 1845 "Narrative" / J. Kameron Carter -- Sanctification: -- Apophatic anthropology / Linda Woodhead -- Human dignity : concepts and experiences / Fraser Watts -- The "end" of the human or the end of the "human"? : human dignity in technological perspective / Elaine L. Graham -- Dying with dignity? / Gerhard Sauter -- The Multidimensionality of Human Dignity: -- Human dignity, human complexity, and human goods / Don S. Browning -- Theological anthropology versus anthropological reductionism / Michael Welker

ISBN

• 0802833950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780802833952

LCCN

^^2006011719

OCLC

• 66463616
• SCSB-12436199

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library