The Body and Ultimate Concern
Reflections on an Embodied Theology of Paul Tillich
Published on 1. October 2018
Book
Hardback
277 pages
978-0-88146-682-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. 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. Contributors include: David H. Nikkel, Kayko Driedger Hesslein, Beth Ritter-Conn, Tyler Atkinson, Courtney Wilder, Adam Pryor, and Devan Stahl.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88146-682-9 (9780881466829)
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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.
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.