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Theological Encounters with Anthropology

Eve-Marie Becker Jan Dietrich Bo Kristian Holm(Editor)

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Intro
Title Page
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Table of Contents
Body
Preface
Eve-Marie Becker/Jan Dietrich/Bo Kristian Holm: What is Human? Theological Encounters with Anthropology: Introduction to the Volume
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II
III
Bibliography
1. Biblical Anthropology: Historical and Theoretical Quests
Jan Dietrich: Human Relationality and Sociality in Ancient Israel: Mapping the Social Anthropology of the Old Testament
1. Introduction: Man in His Relatedness
2. Body Terms are Concepts with Relational Connotations
3. Mutual Social Identity as a Basic Socio-Anthropological Phenomenon
4. Collective Identity instead of Corporative Personality
5. Mnemonic Communality: Cultural and Social Memory in the Old Testament
6. Rational and Emotional Communality: Social Character in the Old Testament
Bibliography
Line Søgaard Christensen: Homo Repetitivus and Anthropotechnics: Exercise Systems, Elite Practitioners, and Teaching Missions in the Hebrew Bible
1. Introduction
2. Anthropotechnics - a Programme of Acrobatic Asceticism
3. Renouncers
4. The Israelite National-Ethnic Renouncer Mentality
5. King Jehoshaphat and his Anthropotechnical System
6. Levites as Teachers and Elite Practitioners
7. Anthropotechnics in the Hebrew Bible
Bibliography
Bernhard Lang: New Light on the Levites: The Biblical Group that Invented Belief in Life after Death in Heaven
1. The Levites as a Special Case
2. The Levites and the Land
3. The Levites and the Cult of the Dead
4. The Levites and Their Kin
5. The Levitical View of Life after Death - in Heaven
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Ole Davidsen: Blended Reciprocation: Matt 5:38-42 in Narrative Perspective
1. Introduction
1.1 Matt 5:38-48 and Luke 6:27-36
1.2. Person and Role-Configuration
1.2.1 Protagonist/Antagonist and Actor/Partner
1.2.2. Subject of Being and Subject of Doing
1.2.3. Inferior and Superior
1.2.4 Evil and Good
2. An Elementary Model for Social Exchange
3. Narrative Analysis of Matt 5:38-39a: Lex Talionis and the Reaction to Evil
3.1. Lex Talionis: The Law of Retaliation (5:38)
3.1.1. Measure for Measure
3.1.2. A Model Example: Exod 21:26-27
3.2. Reaction to Evil (5:39a)
3.2.1. Negative and Positive Reciprocation
3.2.2. The Three Realms/Orders of Being
4. Narrative Analysis of Matt 5:39b-41: Three Examples of Proactive Resistance
4.1. Turn the Other Cheek (Matt 5:39b)
4.2. Distraint of Belongings (Matt 5:40)
4.3. Forced Labor (Matt 5:41)
4.4. Strategic Reciprocation: The Power of the Powerless
5. Blended Reciprocity
5.1. Confrontation between Two Ideologies
5.2. Action and Reaction between Presuppositions and Implications
5.3. Challenging Reciprocation
5.3.1. The Cunning Actor
5.3.2. The Cornered Partner
6. Narrative Analysis of Matt 5:42: The Demand for Unrestricted Generosity
7. Concluding Observations and Remarks
Bibliography
Eve-Marie Becker: The Anxiety (Sorge) of the Human Self: Paul's Notion of µ???µ?a
1. Paul's Ultima Verba on Anxiety in Philippians
2. 1 Cor 12 and 2 Cor 11: Anxiety in Community Politics and Ethics
2.1 Paul's Anxiety as Apostle: 2 Cor 11:28
2.2 Anxiety in Community Life: 1 Cor 12:24f.
3. 1 Cor 7:32ff.: Anxiety and Individual Decision-Making
3.1 Paul and Sexual Ethics: 1 Thess 4 and Beyond
3.2 Sexuality and Anxiety: Individual Decision-Making in 1 Cor 7
4. Paul's Explosure of the Human Self
Bibliography
Jacob P.B. Mortensen: Anthropology or Ethnic Stereotyping in Paul?
1. Introduction
2. Ethnic Stereotypes
2.1 Stereotyping in Antiquity
3. Application of Stereotyping to Paul's Practice
3.1 Paul's Addressees
3.2 "Us" - the Jews
3.3 "Them" - the Gentiles
3.4 A First-Century Contemporary Parallel
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
René Falkenberg: The Old and New Human Being: A Pauline Concept in Manichaean Texts
1. Introduction
2. The Old and New Human Being in Corpus Paulinum
3. Mani and Manichaeism
4. The Old and New Human Being in Manichaeism
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
2. Anthropology in Christian History and Culture: Systematic and Ethical Perspectives
Svend Andersen: The Golden Rule: An Anthropological Universal?
1. The Historical Background
2. Luther
3. Secularisation of the Golden Rule
3.1 Hobbes
3.2 Kant
4. The Golden Rule in Analytical Ethics
5. The Golden Rule in K.E. Løgstrup's Ethics - with a View to Ricour
5.1 Løgstrup
5.2 Ricour
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Bjørn Rabjerg: Evil Understood as the Absence of Freedom: Outlines of a Lutheran Anthropology and Ontology
The Idea of Self-Development and Self-Realization
The Idea of Self-Realization Rooted in Greek Anthropology
Løgstrup's Lutheran Protestant Perspective
The Contrast between Greek and Lutheran Anthropology
Løgstrup's Anthropology
Self-Development or Self-Liberation
Formation by outside Resources
The Fictitious Space
Bibliography
Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen: Anthropology between Homo Sacer and Homo Oeconomicus: Luther's Theological Anthropology of Human Capital
1. Introduction
2. The Human Being as Homo Nudus Between God and Devil
3. Luther's New Anthropology: The Homo Sacer between Just and Sinner
4. Humanization of Ministry and Church: The Priesthood of All Believers
5. Shaping the Human: The Education of All
6. The Human Reality: Theology of the Cross
7. Human - Not Divine: The Humanization of Humans
8. A Human Economy: Luther's Homo Oeconomicus
9. Quotidian Life as Graced Human Life
10. Grace and Human Capital
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
Troels Nørager: 'The God Within' and Religious Self-Reliance: Emerson's Radical Interpretation of Christian Anthropology
1. Introduction
2. The Unitarian Background and Emerson's Diagnosis of a 'Revolution in Religious Opinion'
3. Jesus as Teacher of the God Within: Emerson's New Anthropology
4. Self-Reliance as God-Reliance
5. The Precariousness of Liberal Theology: A Brief Comparison with Ernst Troeltsch
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Maria Odgaard Møller: What is Human in Human Beings?
1. Løgstrup Meets Moral Anthropology
2. Moral Anthropology
2.1 Positions
2.1.1 Virtue Ethics
2.1.2 Ordinary Ethics
2.2 Michael Lambek
2.3 Jarrett Zigon
2.4 Veena Das
2.5 Moral Anthropology: Summing Up the Views on Ethics and Human Existence
3. Løgstrup's Ethics
3.1 Phenomenology
3.2 The Ethical Demand
3.3 The Sovereign Expressions of Life
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
David Bugge: Unlike Hitler, God is Not Human: On Karl Ove Knausgård's Anthropology and Theology
1. Fellow-Strugglers
2. Hitler's Lifelong Good Qualities
3. One of Us
4. Hitler the Ethicist
5. We, We, We
6. The Formula of Everything Human
7. A Primal Anxiety of Man
8. The Non-Human
9. The Radically Other
10. Not My Struggle
Bibliography
Benedicte Hammer Præstholm: Human in the Flesh: Gendered Anthropology between Theology and Culture
1. Gendered Anthropology between Theology and Culture
2. Examples from the Danish Theological Debates on Gender
2.1 New Cultural Ideas and Christianity are Incompatible
2.2 New Cultural Ideas and Christianity are Compatible
3. The Understanding of Change
4. Take It or Leave It? The Need for a Focus on the Transformation of Theological Anthropology
Bibliography
Ulrik Becker Nissen: What is a Human Body? Moving Towards a Responsive Body
1. Introduction
2. What is a Human Body?
3. The Body in the Bible
4. The Animal Body
5. The Constructed Body
6. The Lived Body
7. The Historical Body
8. The Alienated Body and the Baconian Project
9. The Responsive Human Body
Bibliography
3. Current Contextual Anthropologies: Perspectives from Church and Society
Peter Lodberg: The Neo-Liberal Human Being in the Competitive State - A Sociotheological Perspective
1. The Sociotheological Context: Development of the Danish Welfare State
2. Sociotheological Anthropology: The Rational and Benevolent Human Being
3. The Problem of Financing the Welfare State and the Crisis of Anthropology
4. The New Sociological Context: New Public Management
5. The Sociotheological Result: The Neo-Liberal Human Being
6. Wellness as the New Religion
7. Health and Wealth
8. A Sociotheological Perspective: The Meal as a Theological Counternarrative
9. A Sociotheological Conclusion: Eating Together
Bibliography
Johannes Nissen: 'Something for Something' or 'Something for Nothing': Theological Reflections on Diaconia, Welfare Society, and Human Dignity
1. Introduction
2. Recent Developments in the Welfare Society
3. The Modern Welfare Society is Facing Some Dilemmas
4. Reciprocity and Unilaterality - Understanding the Golden Rule
5. The Weakest Members of the Society
6. Created in the Image of God
7. Being Uplifted to Dignity
8. The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard
9. Transcending Group Solidarity
10. The Vision of the Community as the Body of Christ
11. The Quest for a Just Society - the Quest for Human Dignity
12. Towards an Inclusive Community of Hospitality
Bibliography
Ulla Schmidt/Kirstine Helboe Johansen: Theological Anthropologies in a Neighbourhood Church
1. Anthropologies Studied in a Neighbourhood Church?
2. Theology Embodied in Practice
3. How to Study Anthropologies in a Neighbourhood Church: Method and Design
4. Church Practices and Anthropologies
5. The Neighbourhood Parish: Basic History and Sociodemographic
6. Two Church Practices: Analysis
6.1 The Evening Lecture
6.1.1 Human Nature and Human Agency: Longing for the Old Days
6.1.2 Human Identity: The Neighbourhood Church is All of Us
6.2 A Sunday Service
6.2.1 Human Nature and Agency: Created, Tempted, and Responsible
6.2.2 Human Identity: a Christian Community and a Neighbourhood Church
6.3 Church Practices and Anthropologies
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Jakob Egeris Thorsen: Modern and Orthodox - the Transformation of Christianity in Atitlán and the Marginalization of Maya Traditionalism
1. Introduction
2. Conversions in Times of Turmoil
3. Religious Change in Highland Guatemala
4. The Religious History of Santiago Atitlán
5. The Cofradía System Historically and Today
6. Atiteco Protestantism
7. Evangelizing Catholics
8. Religion and Modernity among the Maya Peoples
9. Orthodox Christianity as a Modernizing Religion
10. Traditionalist Responses and Theological Unease
Bibliography
Editors, List of Contributors and Abstracts
Editors
List of Contributors and Abstracts
Indices
Ancient and Modern Texts
Subjects
Ancient Expressions and Termini Technici
Ancient and Modern Persons and Authors

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