Mortality, Ontology and Ethics in Twentieth-Century Theologies of Person : The Rule of Death.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trew, Alex Michael, author.

Contributor:

Williams, Rowan, writer of added text.

Series:

T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology.

T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich.

Giannaras, Chrēstos, 1935-.

Giannaras, Chrēstos.

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : T&T Clark, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Examines death's potentially positive function for human existence through studies of Bonhoeffer, Yannaras, Rahner and Heidegger.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

I State of the question

II What is the 'person'?

1 The person of Christ and human existence: Traditions, ontologies and the meaning of death

I Encountering Heidegger

II Christ the self-giving 'person'

III Christ's death

2 Church and human existence: Sacraments, freedom and self-giving

I Introduction

II Currents of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in phenomenology and existentialism

III Existential continuity (and disruption) in church

IV A 'dying' church?

V Conclusion

3 Death and human existence: Freedom and the love of God

II Philosophy 'at a graveside': Heidegger's appropriation of Kierkegaardian concepts

III Death 'in' Christ? The ambiguous matters of 'possibility' and 'reality'

IV Passivity and activity: The ontological openness of a Christian death through Stellvertretung and kenosis-askesis

4 Is death a gift?

II 'Felix'd': What a gift is

III Bonhoeffer on the priority of the word and claiming responsibility

IV Yannaras on love and death in reference to Christ's kenosis

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

0-567-72263-5

0-567-72261-9

9780567722614

OCLC:

1574806591