Kurt (Hrsg.) Appel

In Praise of Mortality

Christianity and New Humanism

Buch

This volume shows that the vulnerability and mortality of life are the starting points of its transcendence which exceeds all representability.Only by renouncing fantasies of omnipotence of a theological, philosophical and scientific nature, human beings can advance to their destiny and introduce a New Humanism enabling a bond between all that is alive and between human beings and their transcendent dimension. This includes an understanding of time that no longer follows chronological-mechanistic constraints, a non-instrumental understanding of language that finds its dimension of depth in prayer and an understanding of God in which God is in… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-506-79124-5
EAN: 9783506791245
Produktnummer: 35912091
Verlag: Brill I Schoeningh
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 178 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.9 cm 495 g
Gewicht: 495

Über den Autor

Kurt Appel is Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Ethics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna. He is Speaker of the Research Centre Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (University of Vienna).