On Human Being: Christian Anthropology in Conflicts of Present
Overview
Moltmann explores the idea of human dignity and humanity in general through an anthropological perspective, attempting to reconcile these notions within a globalized world.
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Key Features
- Explores the idea of human dignity and humanity
- Reconciles human dignity and humanity within a globalized world
- Provides insight through an anthropological perspective
Contents
- What is Man?
- Humanism in an Industrial Society
- Images of Man and Experiments
- Man and the Son of Man
Praise for the Print Edition
This series of sketches provides a basis for Moltmann’s view of man and woman as socially and politically responsible beings. Moving quickly through biological, cultural, religious, and Christian anthropology, he locates the contemporary problems of humanism in a technological (and inhuman) society . . . While the future remains central, its features are somewhat sobered in the emphasis on suffering love.
—Anne Carr, theologian, University of Chicago
Product Details
- Title: On Human Being: Christian Anthropology in Conflicts of Presenty
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Translator: John Sturdy
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 2009
- Pages: 149
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Resource Type: Systematic Theologies
- Topic: Anthropology
About Jürgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann studied Christian theology in England and, after his return to Germany, in Göttingen. He served as a pastor from 1952 to1958 in Bremen. Since 1967 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen and retired there in 1994. Among his many influential and award-winning books are The Theology of Hope (1967), The Crucified God (1974), The Trinity and the Kingdom (1981), The Spirit of Life (1994), and The Coming of God (1996), winner of the Grawemeyer Award in 2000, all published by Fortress Press.
Top Highlights
“Nowadays it is generally given a two-part answer: man is a biologically defective creature and, at the same time, a culture-making creature.” (Page 5)
“Christianity understands Marxism as a substitute religion, and Marxism understands Christianity as a hostile ideology of society.” (Page 58)
“Workers are no longer listed in the balance sheets of the major companies as people; they are now only cost factors, which diminish profits and lower share prices. Since political measures have deregulated the economy, it is now regulated by the interests of the major concerns. And this process is spreading into other sectors of life. Here a new conflict is emerging about the dignity of human beings and the meaning of a humane society. Do we want to make short-term economic profits, and in the long run let our humanity go bankrupt?” (Pages ix–x)
“Religion does not claim to elucidate the mystery of man. It confirms and deepens the mystery that man is.” (Page 14)
“Therefore Christian hope is directed not toward the ‘total man’, but towards the ‘new man’.” (Page 57)
- Title: On Human Being: Christian Anthropology in the Conflicts of the Present
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theological anthropology › Christianity
- Resource ID: LLS:HUMBEINGMOLTMANN
- Resource Type: Monograph
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