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Encountering cruelty : the fracture of the human heart /

Drawing on Nietzsche's challenge to the western tradition, this book is a theological exploration of cruelty in its personal, communal and institutional encounters in human life. Cruelty undermines care, trust, respect and justice, and its study opens a window into the theological possibility o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trice, Michael Reid
Otros Autores: Schreiter, Robert J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Studies in systematic theology (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Encountering Cruelty: The Fracture of the Human Heart; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Encountering Cruelty: Trajectory of an Inquiry; A) Introduction
  • An Intersection of Four Queries on a Topos; i) The Historical Query of Approximation
  • The Topos of Cruelty; ii) The Classic Hermeneutic Query
  • Nietzsche's Challenge; iii) The Query from Experience
  • The Execution of David Jr. Ward; iv) The Query from a Locus of Belief
  • The Execution of Jesus; v) Transition from Four Queries and a Beginning.
  • B) The Lodestar
  • To 'Know Oneself ' and Nietzsche's Way of Crueltyi) The Oracle at Delphi
  • Construction, Fracture, Concealment; ii) Mythos and Myths
  • Angst, Wonder and Awe; iii) Mythos and Myths
  • Telos-Orientation and Teleology; iv) Trespass Concealed in Teleological Narrative-Myth; v) Scientific Socratism
  • Skeptic and Tragic Philosopher after the 'Fact'; vi) 'The Rub'
  • Abstraction, Limits of Language, Negative Creation, Reason's Mask; vii) Correlation: Positive Creation, Illusion/Allusion, Archeological Diving-Down; C) Cruelty: Etymology, Normativity, Tragic Existence.
  • I) Etymology of Cruelty
  • Excess and Encounterii) Normative Inroads to a Criterion; iii) Cruelty and a Sense of Tragic Existence; D) Correlative Cartography
  • The Topography of Cruelty in Fracture-Artery-Contour; E) Remarks for Transition; Chapter Two Intra-Personal Cruelty: The Artery of Self-Objectification; A) Introduction
  • Seeking a Point of Departure -Topography, Rising-In-Thought, Diving-Down; B) An Argument for a Distinct Anthropological Trajectory; i) Cruelty as Distinct from 'Sin' and 'Evil'; ii) The External Traditional Teleology of Redemption
  • Cruelty, Sin and Evil.
  • Iii) The Internal Modern Teleology of the Cosmic Selfiv) Remarks for Transition; C) Introduction
  • An Anthropological Assessment: Oneself; i) Post-Modern Delphi
  • Oneself between Existential Limit and Existentiell Horizon; ii) Self-Knowledge
  • Oneself as An Other; iii) Self-Love
  • An Other as Oneself; iv) An Intra-Personal Telos and Moniker; v) Remarks for Transition; D) The Narrative of Job
  • The Cry Against Cruelty; i) Remarks for Transition; E) The Artery of Intra-Personal Objectification; i) Augustine
  • Evil, Sin and Perversion; ii) Luther
  • Evil, Sin, and Pretension.
  • Iii) Assessment
  • Objectificationiv) Remarks for Transition; F) Five Contours in the Artery of Self-Objectification; i) Struggle; ii) Trauma; iii) To Become an Enigma; iv) Excision; v) Ressentiment; G) The Supra-Narratives of Adam and Cain; i) Introduction
  • What Happened to Adamand Cain?; ii) The Narrative of Cain
  • Section I; iii) The Narrative of Adam; iv) The Narrative of Cain
  • Section II; v) Ressentiment
  • The Lineage of Cain and the Civilization of Nod; H) Remarks for Transition; Chapter Three Interpersonal Cruelty: The Artery of the Desire for Recognition.
  • A) Introduction
  • Charting an Interpersonal Topography in Western Thought.