Remaking Humanity
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Remaking Humanity

Embodiment and Hope in Catholic Theology

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Remaking Humanity

Embodiment and Hope in Catholic Theology

About this book

Drawing upon Edward Schillebeeckx's theology and Judith Butler's philosophy, Adam Beyt uses the framework of nonviolent hope to construct a Catholic political theology responding to dehumanizing violence. Dehumanizing violence names words, institutions, or acts violating the inherent dignity of being made in the image and likeness of God. Theology can participate in dehumanizing violence by claiming an uninterrogated universality that marginalizes bodies due to their perceived differences such as gender, race, sexuality, or ability. The book's constructive project integrates Schillebeeckx's and Butler's thought with queer theory and phenomenology to model embodiment as an "enfleshing dynamism" between bodies and signification. The text then posits Catholic discipleship as incarnating hope by defending the humanum, the new humanity announced through God's Reign. Combining reflections from Schillebeeckx and Butler, this hope centers discipleship as nonviolent world building. Concluding with a sustained reflection with the writings of Franz Fanon and Walter Benjamin, the final chapter sketches a Catholic solidaristic response to contemporary struggles against the necropolitics of colonizing and state violence through assemblies of hope.

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780567714169
eBook ISBN
9780567714176
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Denominations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 An Unfulfilled Promise: Catholic Theological Anthropology and Harmful Discipleship
  6. Chapter 2 The Incarnated Self: Finitude, Embodied Experience, and Mediated Immediacy
  7. Chapter 3 The Body as an Enfleshing Dynamism: Schillebeeckxā€™s Sacramental Theology and the Chiasm of Merleau-Ponty
  8. Chapter 4 Anthropological Apophasis: Butler and the Philosophy of the ā€œHumanā€
  9. Chapter 5 Incarnating Hope: Schillebeeckxā€™s Mystical-Political Discipleship
  10. Chapter 6 Butler and Nonviolent Hope
  11. Chapter 7 The Force of Hope: Freedom from Necropolitics
  12. Conclusion
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index