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Zusatztext Brendan Case's The Accountable Animal is a richly suggestive, genuine work of theology, combining speculative verve and thoughtful engagement with Scripture. Informationen zum Autor Brendan Case is Associate Director for Research, The Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University, USA. Vorwort Argues that accountability is central to humanity's calling both to rational agency and to friendship with God. Zusammenfassung The Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgement offers a theological meditation on the human being as an accountable animal. Brendan Case introduces the idea of accountability, not merely as a structural feature of human institutions, but as a disposition to submit to rightly-constituted authority, whether divine or human. He relates this conception of accountability to the key themes of "justice, justification, and judgment". Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction "Those with Promises to Keep" Chapter 1 "Rendering to Each His Right": Accountability as a Sub-Type of Justice Chapter 2 “You Judge Each according to his Ways”: Ezekiel on Human Obedience, the Killing Letter, and the Life-Giving Spirit Chapter 3 “The Doers of the Law Will Be Justified”: Resolving a Pauline Dilemma Chapter 4 Christ as Adam’s Righteousness: Edenic Justification as a Reason for the Incarnation Chapter 5 Family, Polity, Church: Corporate Persons and the Origins of Accountability Chapter 6 Fiery Furnaces and Final Farthings: Purgatory and the Problem of Postmortem Accountability Chapter 7 On the Varieties of Infernalist Experience: Accountability in Everlasting, Annihilationist, and Purgatorial Hells Conclusion: What's Next?BibliographyIndex
