Being Human Groundwork for a Theological Anthropology for the 21st Century |
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| Editor:
| Kirchhoffer, David G.
Horner, Robyn
McArdle, Patrick |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62564-300-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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What does it mean to be human? The traditional answers from the past remain only theoretical possibilities unless they come to mean something to today's generation. Moreover, in light of new knowledge and circumstances, a new generation may call these old answers into question, and seek to reinterpret, or, indeed, provide alternatives to them. In the 1960s, the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council attempted such a reinterpretation, an aggiornamento, for the post-war generation of...
More DescriptionWhat does it mean to be human? The traditional answers from the past remain only theoretical possibilities unless they come to mean something to today's generation. Moreover, in light of new knowledge and circumstances, a new generation may call these old answers into question, and seek to reinterpret, or, indeed, provide alternatives to them. In the 1960s, the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council attempted such a reinterpretation, an aggiornamento, for the post-war generation of the mid-twentieth century by proposing, in Gaudium et Spes, a theological anthropology founded upon the ideas of human dignity and the common good. Fifty years later is an appropriate time to revisit those answers, and