Wonder As a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology - Opened By the World

Starting with the experience of wonder, José Francisco Morales Torres constructs a new theological anthropology, one that posits a lifeworld saturated by an excessive Generosity and a primordial receptivity in humans through which they commune with, are opened by, and are transformed by the O/other.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: A Phenomenology of Wonder
Chapter Two: Metaphysics of Participation as the Ontological Grounding for Wonder
Interlude on Generosity: A Trinitarian Reflection on the Holy Spirit as "Giver of Life"
Chapter Three: Opened to the World or by the World?: Toward a Theological Anthropology of Wonder
Chapter Four: The Ethics of Wonder and Generosity: Some Initial Explorations
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

José Francisco Morales Torres is assistant professor of Latinx Studies and Religion at Chicago Theological Seminary.

Summary

Starting with the experience of wonder, José Francisco Morales Torres constructs a new theological anthropology, one that posits a lifeworld saturated by an excessive Generosity and a primordial receptivity in humans through which they commune with, are opened by, and are transformed by the O/other.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Morales Torres, Jose Francisco Morales Torres, José Francisco Morales Torres
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781793637482
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-748-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology