Man in Revolt

A Christian Anthropology
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9044-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 570 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

Reihe: The Emil Brunner Library

A wide-ranging discussion of human nature seeing the relationship between God and humanity as the key to the contradiction between what we are and ought to be.

In Emil Brunner's treatise on the nature of mankind he explores what Darwin, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, despite their differences, all overlooked: the contradiction at the heart of human experience. This contradiction is comprehensible only through a God who illuminates what we should be, who makes communication possible through his Word and our ability to respond. A transcendent, metaphysical exploration of the human condition, in Man In Revolt Brunner centres the Biblical doctrine of humankind to reveal the truth being sought in the endless human search for understanding.

Focussing on responsibility as the key to personality, Brunner explores how an understanding of ourselves as created in the image of God offers an insight into our responsibility. With profound penetration and power, he considers the timeless questions of individuality and community, men and women, and our souls and bodies. An incisive and enduring work, Man in Revolt brings Brunner's piercing argument to the question at the centre of our understanding of ourselves - and our relation to the world we live in.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brunner, Emil

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author's Preface (to the German Edition)
Translator's Note

Introduction: The Question of Man
I. The Riddle of Man
II. Man's Own View of His Significance
III. The Variety of the Views of Man

Main Section I: Foundations
IV. The Presuppositions of the Christian Doctrine of Man
V. The Origin: The Imago Dei
VI. The Contradiction: The Destruction of the Image of God
VII. The Conflict Between the Origin and the Contradiction in Man: Man as He Actually is
VIII. The Objections to the Christian Doctrine, and the Retrospective Question from the Standpoint of Actual Experience

Main Section II: Development of the Theme
IX. The Unity of Personality and Its Decay
X. The Human Spirit and the Human Reason
XI. The Problem of Freedom
XII. The Individual and the Community
XIII. Character and Varieties of Character
XIV. Individuality and Humanity
XV. Man and Woman
XVI. Soul and Body
XVII. The Growth of Man and the Doctrine of Evolution
XVIII. Man in the Cosmos
XIX. Man in History
XX. Man in his Earthly Life, and Death

Epilogue: The Removal of the Contradiction Between Man as He Actually is, and Man as He is Intended to Be

Appendices
Index

Full List of Contents

Über Autor(innen)

Brunner, Emil
EMIL BRUNNER (1889-1966) was one of the leading theologians of the twentieth century, and helped pave the course of modern Protestant theology.
He was Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology at the University of Zürich and lectured around the world. His extensive writings published by James Clarke & Co. include The Letter to the Romans and Dogmatics.