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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".
Table des matières
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 4Christ as Adam's Righteousness: Edenic Justification as a Reason for the Incarnation
Chapter 5Family, Polity, Church: Corporate Persons and the Origins of Accountability
Chapter 6 Fiery Furnaces and Final Farthings: Purgatory and the Problem of Postmortem Accountability
Chapter 7On the Varieties of Infernalist Experience: Accountability in Everlasting, Annihilationist, and Purgatorial Hells
Conclusion: What's Next?
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Brendan Case is Associate Director for Research, The Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University, USA.
Résumé
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".
Préface
Argues that accountability is central to humanity's calling both to rational agency and to friendship with God.
Texte suppl.
Brendan Case's The Accountable Animal is a richly suggestive, genuine work of theology, combining speculative verve and thoughtful engagement with Scripture.
