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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461643103321

Autore

Trice Michael Reid

Titolo

Encountering cruelty [[electronic resource] ] : the fracture of the human heart / / by Michael Reid Trice ; with a foreword by Robert J. Schreiter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-12089-5

9786613120892

90-04-20559-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (446 p.)

Collana

Studies in systematic theology, , 1876-1518 ; ; v. 6

Disciplina

241/.3

Soggetti

Cruelty

Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Michael Reid Trice -- Introduction / Michael Reid Trice -- Encountering Cruelty: / Michael Reid Trice -- Intra-Personal Cruelty: / Michael Reid Trice -- Interpersonal Cruelty: / Michael Reid Trice -- Institutional Cruelty: / Michael Reid Trice -- Epilogue – A Dispatch: / Michael Reid Trice -- Bibliography / Michael Reid Trice -- Index / Michael Reid Trice.

Sommario/riassunto

Interest in recent years in reconciliation and conflict transformation has witnessed a great deal of attention to building a future through forgiveness and preventative measures in order to impede egregious wrongdoing. This effort for a reconciled future is absent reflection on the nature of cruelty. Cruelty has always been apparent in massive acts of wrongdoing and yet is repeatedly concealed in our assessment of the acts themselves. This book is a theologically honest and deep-structure exploration of cruelty in its personal, communal and institutional encounters in human life. Drawing on Nietzsche's challenge of cruelty to the western tradition, the work offers a comprehensive study of how cruelty undermines care, trust, respect and justice – all those elements of human reciprocity that mark our lives as interdependent beings. The work concludes with a tightly written Epilogue on interpreting the



theological meaning and accessibility of reconciliation today.