Who Is the Human Being? an Ecumenical Approach to Theological Anthropology

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73295-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Studies in Theology and Religion

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sirka, Zdenko

Noble, Ivana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Translator’s Note

About the Cover Illustration

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Ivana Noble and Zdenko Širka

Part 1 We Are Born into a Life that Was Here Before Us

Introduction to Part 1

1 The Human Being as Relational Tim Noble

2 The Human Being and Language Zdenko Širka

3 People Living in Stories Pavel Hošek and Pavol Bargár

4 The Human Being and Ritual Tabita Landová and Michaela Vlcková

5 Being and Understanding in a Symbolic Key Katerina Kocandrle Bauer

Part 2 We Are Who We Become

Introduction to Part 2

6 The Image and Likeness of God Ivana Noble

7 The Human Being Alienated and Redeemed Mireia Ryšková

8 The Human Being Capable of Discernment Denisa Cervenková

9 Ethics, Freedom, and Responsibility Ondrej Fischer and Libor Ovecka

10 A Theological Perspective on the Question of Gender Ivana Noble and Katerina Kocandrle Bauer

11 The Human Being as a Creature Inhabiting a Landscape František Štech 12 The Human Being and the Polis Petr Jandejsek

13 The Human Being in Time Ondrej Kolár and Martin Vanác

14 The Church and Eternity Viorel Coman

Afterword

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ivana Noble is Professor of Ecumenical Theology at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University. She teaches and publishes in the fields of ecumenical systematic theology, fundamental theology, Orthodox theology, hermeneutics, theological anthropology, political theology, and Christian spirituality, including two volumes of Essays in Ecumenical Theology (Brill, 2019, 2022).

Zdenko Širka works at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University and the Jabok College of Applied Social Studies. He publishes in hermeneutics, ecumenical theology, Orthodox theology, and theological ethics. He is author of Transcendence and Understanding (2020).