Remaking Humanity

Adam Beyt is Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Saint Norbert College, USA.

• IntroductionChapter OneAN UNFULFILLED PROMISE: Catholic Theological Anthropology and Harmful DiscipleshipChapter TwoTHE INCARNATED SELF: Finitude, Embodied Experience, and Mediated ImmediacyChapter ThreeTHE BODY AS AN ENFLESHED DYNAMISM: Schillebeeckx’s Sacramental Theology and the Chiasm of Merleau-PontyChapter FourANTHROPOLOGICAL APOPHASIS: Butler and the Philosophy of the "Human"Chapter FiveINCARNATING HOPE: Schillebeeckx’s Mystical-Political DiscipleshipChapter SixBUTLER AND NONVIOLENT HOPEChapter SevenTHE FORCE OF HOPE: Freedom from NecropoliticsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Adam Beyt’s Remaking Humanity expresses the ontological vulnerability of embodied existence in a sacramental mode. This is both a provocative and constructive proposal for a theology that takes the experience of having and being a body seriously—including all of the dynamism, instability, and vulnerability that this entails. With the work of Edward Schillebeeckx as a starting point, Beyt builds from thinkers like Bulter, Merleau-Ponty, and Mbembe in pursuit of a mystical political practice involving the whole person. This book is a Thomistically grounded work of political theology that is steeped in the sacramental imagination, allowing it to run through doors pushed open by Schillebeeckx and earlier generations of scholars. Beyt imagines ‘incarnating hope’ in a way that expands the borders of the Rule of God beyond polarized binaries, exclusions, and inherited structures of violence.