Who Is the Human Being? An Ecumenical Approach to Theological Anthropology

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-73295-7 (ISBN)

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Is being human a given, or is it something one grows into throughout one’s life? Is possible to be and to become human without freedom, other people, nature, God? Offering interdisciplinary insights into such questions, this volume draws on the Bible and the classics of Christian traditions, as well as contemporary debates on individualism, social responsibility, gender, and ecology. It explores narratives about human identity, how being and becoming human features in rituals and symbols, and theological models used by Christian anthropology over the centuries It looks at the human in the landscape, culture, and society, at the church, and considers the nature of discernment, formulating and reformulating moral values, and wrestling with new challenges.

Contributors are: Pavol Bargár, Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer, Viorel Coman, Denisa Červenková, Ondřej Fischer, Pavel Hošek, Petr Jandejsek, Ondřej Kolář, Tabita Landová, Ivana Noble, Tim Noble, Libor Ovečka, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Mireia Ryšková, Zdenko Širka, František Štěch, Martin Vaňáč, and Michaela Vlčková.

First published in Czech as Kdo je člověk? Teologická antropologie ekumenicky by Karolinum, Prague, 2021.

Ivana Noble is Professor of Ecumenical Theology at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University. She teaches and publishes in the fields of ecumenical systematic theology, fundamental theology, Orthodox theology, hermeneutics, theological anthropology, political theology, and Christian spirituality, including two volumes of Essays in Ecumenical Theology (Brill, 2019, 2022). Zdenko Širka works at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University and the Jabok College of Applied Social Studies. He publishes in hermeneutics, ecumenical theology, Orthodox theology, and theological ethics. He is author of Transcendence and Understanding (2020).

Contents

Foreword

Translator’s Note

About the Cover Illustration

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Ivana Noble and Zdenko Širka

Part 1 We Are Born into a Life that Was Here Before Us

Introduction to Part 1

1 The Human Being as Relational

Tim Noble

2 The Human Being and Language

Zdenko Širka

3 People Living in Stories

Pavel Hošek and Pavol Bargár

4 The Human Being and Ritual

Tabita Landová and Michaela Vlčková

5 Being and Understanding in a Symbolic Key

Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer

Part 2 We Are Who We Become

Introduction to Part 2

6 The Image and Likeness of God

Ivana Noble

7 The Human Being Alienated and Redeemed

Mireia Ryšková

8 The Human Being Capable of Discernment

Denisa Červenková

9 Ethics, Freedom, and Responsibility

Ondřej Fischer and Libor Ovečka

10 A Theological Perspective on the Question of Gender

Ivana Noble and Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer

11 The Human Being as a Creature Inhabiting a Landscape

František Štěch

12 The Human Being and the Polis
Petr Jandejsek

13 The Human Being in Time

Ondřej Kolář and Martin Vaňáč

14 The Church and Eternity

Viorel Coman

Afterword

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Theology and Religion ; 36
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	844 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	90-04-73295-0 / 9004732950
ISBN-13	978-90-04-73295-7 / 9789004732957
Zustand	Neuware