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Humanity in the Mystery of God: The Theological Anthropology of Edward Schillebeeckx

Humanity in the Mystery of God: The Theological Anthropology of Edward Schillebeeckx

Cooper, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: T&t Clark Studies in Systematic Theology, Book 5

General Christianity

ISBN10: 0567036537
ISBN13: 9780567036537
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Apr 28 2011
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Schillebeeckx's theology is a reflection on the nature of God who is both creator and redeemer: his theology is a 'treatise' on the God who is God for humanity. This means of course that his theology is always both a reflection on the nature of God and on the meaning of humanity; and hence there is a theological anthropology at the centre of his whole theological enterprise. The 'definition' of humanity is given in the relationship between the mystery of God - the God who is both transcendent and immanent - and the mystery of humanity. For Schillebeeckx, the meaning of humanity is revealed and established in the mystery of God as a vocation to intimacy with God. This intimacy is described both as a dependence upon God and as a situated freedom, and hence the description of humanity which emerges from Schillebeeckx's treatise on God holds together humanity's metaphysical and moral significance.

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