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Karl Rahner's Theological Anthropology
2007AbstractThis chapter draws on Rahner's best known writings in Theological Investigations and Foundations of Christian Faith to elucidate his account of the relation between the self, human freedom, and God's grace. Rahner believes that God creates humans as beings who essentially become themselves by responding in freedom to God's self‐communication ...
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The Dependence of Sociocultural Anthropology on Theological Anthropology
2018This chapter argues that classic Christian theological anthropology has emphasized that all human beings are part of the one human family descending from Adam and Eve, created in the image of God, yet fallen and sinful. These beliefs have been traditionally expounded with reference to Genesis 1–3.
Timothy Larsen, Daniel J. King
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The Difference Theological Anthropology Makes
Theology Today, 1994“Theology, on the basis of its understanding of God, proclaims the objective value of God's creatures, a value that must, therefore, be respected in the relations human beings establish with one another and with other kinds of beings in the world. A whole sociopolitical and ecological ethics can be developed from this starting point. …”
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Deification and Theological Anthropology
Abstract Accounts of deification presuppose an anthropology, an account of what humans are such that they can be deified. This chapter surveys such anthropologies. It begins with anthropologies that account for deification through particular powers and activities, focusing on accounts within the Augustinian-Thomistic tradition, which ...openaire +1 more source