On Thinking the Human: Resolutions of Difficult Notions - Softcover

Jenson, Robert W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802821146 ISBN 13: 9780802821140

Verlag: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003

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Since Socrates, the effort to understand ourselves precisely as human has been the central occupation of Western thought. In this short, profound book Robert W. Jenson argues that not only are all philosophical attempts to accurately think the self doomed to failure, but also that the category "human" is unthinkable without reference to God. Under chapter titles that reflect the problem's different facets — "Thinking Death," "Thinking Consciousness," "Thinking Freedom," "Thinking Reality," "Thinking Wickedness," and "Thinking Love" — Jenson limns the difficulty inherent in each concept and then shows how the unthinkable becomes thinkable in light of the triune God of Scripture. As Jenson says at the outset of the book, "our anthropological endeavors are at once impelled and checked by an epistemic quirk or set of quirks: notions we need to use and do use when we talk about ourselves as human resist being thought." On Thinking the Human, which tackles this problem theologically while also giving a nod to philosophic heavyweights like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, is a concise attempt to explain why this is so. v

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Robert W. Jenson was a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He held a doctorate in Theology from the University of Heidelberg. He was an editor of Dialog, a contributor to many theological publications, and the author of Alpha and Omega: A Study in the Theology of Karl Barth, and A Religion against Itself.

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Since Socrates, the effort to understand ourselves precisely as human has been the central occupation of Western thought. In this profound treatise Robert Jenson shows that all philosophical attempts to accurately think the self are doomed to failure and that the category "human" is itself "unthinkable without reference to God.

As Jenson says at the outset of his book, the problem of anthropology is that the very concepts we need to use when we talk about ourselves as human resist being thought. "On Thinking the Human explains why this is so. Under chapter titles that reflect the problem's different facets -- "Thinking Death," "Thinking Consciousness," "Thinking Freedom," "Thinking Reality," "Thinking Wickedness," and "Thinking Love" -- Jenson limns the difficulty inherent in each concept and then shows how the unthinkable becomes thinkable in light of the triune God of Scripture.

Carefully constructed and skillfully worded, "On Thinking the Human will be valued by anyone reflecting deeply on what it means to be human.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802821146
• ISBN 13: 9780802821140
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 98
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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