Exploring the Boundaries of Bodiliness

Theological and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Human Condition

314 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Recent developments in technology have given rise to the impression that the boundaries imposed by our bodiliness can somehow be overcome. The increasing philosophical interest in bodiliness as an unavoidable human condition can be seen as a response to this far too comfortable impression. The essays in this volume address the topic of bodiliness from a theological point of view. They show that our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another cannot be divorced from our bodily condition, and that this existential reality affects significantly how we understand our relationship with God. The contributions also address how we can best deal with the fragility of our bodily condition, as well as the challenges that technological and medical procedures for altering the appearance and constitution of our bodies pose. Special attention is given to how liturgical experience not only offers us a means to respond to these challenges but also to deepen our understanding of Christian communities as ineluctably bodily.

• Reihe: Wiener Forum für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Religion, allgemein
• ISBN: 9783847101970
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.2013
• Größe: 24.5 x 16.3 cm
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Universität Wien, Evang.-Theol. Fakultät
• Herausgegeben von: Sigrid Müller
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Johan de Joode, Paul Weß, Calin Saplacan, Maeve Louise Heaney, Christian Gostecnik, Mariele Wulf, Marie-Jo Thiel, Kerstin Schloegl-Flierl, Christof Breitsameter, Mario Schönhart, Hans-Walter Ruckenbauer, Angelo Cardita, Joris Geldhof, Dorothea Haspelmath-Finatti, Willem Marie Speelman, Christoph Theobald, Annemie Dillen, Christina Maria Kreinecker, Christoph Jacobs, Slavomír Dlugos, Gerhard Marschütz, Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät Universität Wien,