Melancholy theology Hud Hudson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Hud, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in analytic theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

Sin.

Temptation.

Laziness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford New York Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

"All of us some of the time, and some of us all of the time, strive to achieve our own happiness and well-being solely on the dubious strength of our own individual skills, knowledge, willpower, and ingenuity. And we fail, often succumbing to one of the many masks of the capital vice known as Sloth. This volume explores the occasions or consequences of such failures or else strategies for their avoidance. The chapters are loosely connected insofar as they are either inquiries into certain kinds of temptation or confessions of the costs of discovering that one has been thus seduced into sin, or exhortations to prepare oneself to avoid those temptations and their costs. Primary themes include the noetic effects of sin and their impact on interpersonal relationships, forbidden knowledge and self-censorship, duties and rewards of academic mentoring, the theology of creation, chronophobia and existential angst, skeptical theism and its costs, revelation and testimonial knowledge, a common challenge for Judaism and Christianity and Islam, and the philosophy of pessimism and its peculiar temptations."-- Book jacket

Contents:

Melancholy theology

In, out, up, down, and around : five conversations

The fruit of that forbidden tree

Harbison

Theontology : every creature is a word of God

Chronophobia

Agathon and Kalon : the candidates

Agathon or Kalon : the choice

Adam's ribs

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780197901441

0197901441

9780197901427

0197901425

OCLC:

1573823000

Publisher Number:

CIPO000355272

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license