Children of God in the World : an introduction to theological anthropology / Paul O'Callaghan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Callaghan, Paul, 1956- author.

Standardized Title:

Figli di Dio nel mondo. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Theological anthropology--Christianity.

Theological anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, [2016]

Summary:

Children of God in the World is a textbook of theological anthropology structured in four parts.The first attempts to clarify the relationship between theology, philosophy and science in their respective approaches to anthropology, and establishes the fundamental principle of the text, stated in Vatican II's Gaudium et spes, n.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Principal Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1. Methodological Considerations

1. Situating Anthropology among Science, Philosophy, and Theology

2. Historical Perspectives on Humanity in Search of Immortality

3. Jesus Christ, the Redeemer: A Living Perspective for a Christian Anthropology

Part 2. The Historical Developmpment of the Doctrine of Grace

4. The Human Being according to Scripture: Image of God and Son of God

5. Grace and Justification of the Sinner in Paul

6. Grace as "Eternal Life" in John

7. Divinizing Grace in the Eastern Patristic Tradition

8. Grace, Sin, and Good Works in Augustine

9. "Created Grace" in the Medieval Period

10. Grace and Justification in Luther and the Council of Trent

11. The Modern Period: Grace, Freedom, and Anthropology

Part 3. The Christian Theology of Grace

12. The Historical Working Out of God's Project to Establish an Intimate and Perpetual Filial Communion of Humans with the Trinity

13. Children of God in the Holy Spirit: The Life of Grace

14. Divine Life in Humans: God's "Inhabitation" of Man's Soul and "Created Grace

15. Grace and Christian Life: The Infused Virtues and Gifts of the Holy Spirit

16. Grace and Human Freedom: Justification, Merit, Experience, and Mediations

17. The Need for Divine Grace

Part 4. Christian Anthropology

18. The Natural and the Supernatural

19. The Human Being: Union of Body and Soul

20. The Gift of God and Human Freedom

21. The Temporality and Historicity of the Human Being

22. Man Created in the Image of God, a Social Being

23. Humans Created in the Image of God as Man and Woman

24. Humans, Made in the Image of God, at Work in the World

25. The Human Person: Christianity's Contribution to Anthropology

Selected Bibliography

Index of Names

General Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-2901-4

OCLC:

964657438