Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgment

Brendan Case is Associate Director for Research, The Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University, USA.

• Introduction"Those with Promises to Keep"Chapter 1 "Rendering to Each His Right": Accountability as a Sub-Type of JusticeChapter 2 “You Judge Each according to his Ways”: Ezekiel on Human Obedience, the Killing Letter, and the Life-Giving SpiritChapter 3“The Doers of the Law Will Be Justified”: Resolving a Pauline DilemmaChapter 4Christ as Adam’s Righteousness: Edenic Justification as a Reason for the IncarnationChapter 5Family, Polity, Church: Corporate Persons and the Origins of AccountabilityChapter 6 Fiery Furnaces and Final Farthings: Purgatory and the Problem of Postmortem AccountabilityChapter 7On the Varieties of Infernalist Experience: Accountability in Everlasting, Annihilationist, and Purgatorial HellsConclusion: What's Next?BibliographyIndex

With The Accountable Animal Brendan Case offers a thoughtful, incisive and helpful exercise in constructive theology. Case builds an account of what it means for human beings to be accountable to – in a certain way to be just before – each other and God. The book is very well and widely researched, well-orderedand eloquently written.