Wonder as a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology

Opened by the World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvJosé Francisco Morales Torres,Jose Francisco Morales Torres,José Francisco Morales Torres

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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.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-04-10
Mått156 x 236 x 23 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePostcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology
Antal sidor226
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793637482

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: A Phenomenology of WonderChapter Two: Metaphysics of Participation as the Ontological Grounding for WonderInterlude 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 WonderChapter Four: The Ethics of Wonder and Generosity: Some Initial ExplorationsConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

In this book, Professor José Francisco Morales Torres offers a systematic account of ‘wonder’ as a philosophical and theological theme. Here ‘wonder’ becomes a key to understanding human existence and human aspiration for transcendence. This quest for wonder is developed in dialogue with the 20th century phenomenology and the metaphysical traditions going back to the Middle Ages. This book, however, is meant to be a contribution to the contemporary study of theological anthropology. This is accomplished wonderfully in a way that makes significant contributions to the contemporary philosophical and constructive theology.