Wonder as a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology
Opened by the World
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2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3748-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3748-2 (ISBN)
Starting with the experience of wonder, José Francisco Morales Torres constructs a new theological anthropology, one that posits a lifeworld saturated by an excessive Generosity and a primordial receptivity in humans through which they commune with, are opened by, and are transformed by the O/other.
In Wonder as a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology: Opened by the World, José Francisco Morales Torres constructs a new theological anthropology that begins with wonder. He contends that the visceral experience of wonder is an opening up of the human by an excess that saturates the world. This opened-by-ness points to a transforming receptivity as the basis of the person and to an extravagant Generosity that grounds all creation. Thus, wonder, which is grounded in generous Excess, is not only a gift but a demand: it calls for a liberative praxis that resist the forces that flatten the fullness of life into what is ‘useful’ and profitable and that reduce the limitless worth of fellow humans to mere commodities to be exploited and exchanged at the altar of the idolatrous ‘Market’. Wonder reveals a primordial receptivity in the human person, which demands of us an ethic of sustainability that does not reduce the other to commodity, a vulnerability that risks being opened by the other, a commitment to solidarity and liberation that resist the forces of an insatiable, idolatrous Market that seeks “only to steal and kill and destroy.”
In Wonder as a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology: Opened by the World, José Francisco Morales Torres constructs a new theological anthropology that begins with wonder. He contends that the visceral experience of wonder is an opening up of the human by an excess that saturates the world. This opened-by-ness points to a transforming receptivity as the basis of the person and to an extravagant Generosity that grounds all creation. Thus, wonder, which is grounded in generous Excess, is not only a gift but a demand: it calls for a liberative praxis that resist the forces that flatten the fullness of life into what is ‘useful’ and profitable and that reduce the limitless worth of fellow humans to mere commodities to be exploited and exchanged at the altar of the idolatrous ‘Market’. Wonder reveals a primordial receptivity in the human person, which demands of us an ethic of sustainability that does not reduce the other to commodity, a vulnerability that risks being opened by the other, a commitment to solidarity and liberation that resist the forces of an insatiable, idolatrous Market that seeks “only to steal and kill and destroy.”
José Francisco Morales Torres is assistant professor of Latinx Studies and Religion at Chicago Theological Seminary.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: A Phenomenology of Wonder
Chapter Two: Metaphysics of Participation as the Ontological Grounding for Wonder
Interlude on Generosity: A Trinitarian Reflection on the Holy Spirit as “Giver of Life”
Chapter Three: Opened to the World or by the World?: Toward a Theological Anthropology of Wonder
Chapter Four: The Ethics of Wonder and Generosity: Some Initial Explorations
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.03.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 513 g |
Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
ISBN-10 | 1-7936-3748-2 / 1793637482 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-3748-2 / 9781793637482 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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