Body & Ultimate Concern

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-88146-682-9
Verlag: Mercer University Press

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Mercer Tillich Series

Paul Tillich's account of ""ultimate concern"" has been crucial for his theological legacy. It is a concept that has been taken up and adapted by many theologians in an array of subfields. However, Tillich's own account of ultimate concern and many of the subsequent uses of it have focused on intelligibility: the ways it makes what is ultimate more accessible to us as rational beings. This volume charts a different course by placing Tillich's theology in conversation with theories of radical embodiment. The essays gathered here use discourses on the particularity and mutability of the body to offer a critical vantage point for constructive engagement with Tillich's central theological category: ultimate concern. Each essay explores how individuals can be special bearers of ultimate concern by engaging the body's role in faith, religion, and culture. As Mary Ann Stenger, professor emerita from University of Louisville, observes in her introduction: ""From concerns about bodily integrity to considering bodies on the margins of society to discussions of technologically modified bodies, these articles offer us fresh theological insights and call us to ethical thinking and actions in relation to our bodies and the bodies around us. And certainly, today, the body and a person's right to bodily integrity have become central, critical issues in our culture."" Contributors include: David H. Nikkel, Kayko Driedger Hesslein, Beth Ritter-Conn, Tyler Atkinson, Courtney Wilder, Adam Pryor, and Devan Stahl.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pryor, Adam

Stahl, Devan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Pryor is assistant professor of Religion and director of Core Education at Bethany College. He received a PhD in Systematic and Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union. Pryor's primary research interests include science and theology, comparative theology, and phenomenology. His monographs include The God Who Lives and Body Of Christ Incarnate For You.

Devan Stahl is assistant professor of Clinical Ethics in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University. She received her PhD in Health Care Ethics from St. Louis University and her MDiv from Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include medicine and the visual arts, theological bioethics, and disability studies. Her latest book is Imaging and Imagining Illness.