LEADER 03947nam 22006735 450 001 9910823860703321 005 20210720020734.0 010 $a0-8232-8161-2 010 $a0-8232-8017-9 010 $a0-8232-8016-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823280179 035 $a(CKB)4100000004837255 035 $a(OCoLC)1035845119 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse69077 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5391785 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001974531 035 $a(DE-B1597)555269 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823280179 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004837255 100 $a20200723h20182018 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInner Animalities $eTheology and the End of the Human /$fEric Daryl Meyer 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aGroundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018. 311 0 $a0-8232-8014-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Gregory of Nazianzus: Animality and Ascent --$t2. Gregory of Nyssa: Reading Animality and Desire --$t3. The Problem of Human Animality in Contemporary Theological Anthropology --$t4. Animality and Identity: Human Nature and the Image of God --$t5. Animality in Sin and Redemption --$t6. Animality in Eschatological Transformation --$tConclusion --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aMost theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our supposed uniqueness among earth?s creatures?our freedom, our self-awareness, our language, or our rationality. Inner Animalities turns this assumption on its head. Arguing that much theological anthropology contains a deeply anti-ecological impulse, the book draws creatively on historical and scriptural texts to imagine an account of human life centered in our creaturely commonality. The tendency to deny our own human animality leaves our self-understanding riven with contradictions, disavowals, and repressions. How are human relationships transformed when God draws us into communion through our instincts, our desires, and our bodily needs? Meyer argues that humanity?s exceptional status is not the result of divine endorsement, but a delusion of human sin. Where the work of God knits human beings back into creaturely connections, ecological degradation is no longer just a matter of bodily life and death, but a matter of ultimate significance. Bringing a theological perspective to the growing field of Critical Animal Studies, Inner Animalities puts Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner in conversation with Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Kelly Oliver, and Cary Wolfe. What results is not only a counterintuitive account of human life in relation with nonhuman neighbors, but also a new angle into ecological theology. 410 0$aGroundworks (New York, N.Y.) 606 $aTheological anthropology$xChristianity 610 $aAnimals. 610 $aCritical Animal Studies. 610 $aEcological Theology. 610 $aGiorgio Agamben. 610 $aGregory of Nazianzus. 610 $aGregory of Nyssa. 610 $aImage of God. 610 $aJacques Derrida. 610 $aOriginal Sin. 610 $aResurrection of the Body. 610 $aTheological Anthropology. 615 0$aTheological anthropology$xChristianity. 676 $a233/.5 676 $a233.5 700 $aMeyer$b Eric Daryl$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01724124 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823860703321 996 $aInner Animalities$94125944 997 $aUNINA