Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 830 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 830 g
Reihe: Studies in Systematic Theology
ISBN: 978-90-04-20166-8
Verlag: Brill
Interest in recent years in reconciliation and conflict transformation has witnessed a great deal of attention to building a future through forgiveness and preventative measures in order to impede egregious wrongdoing. This effort for a reconciled future is absent reflection on the nature of cruelty. Cruelty has always been apparent in massive acts of wrongdoing and yet is repeatedly concealed in our assessment of the acts themselves. This book is a theologically honest and deep-structure exploration of cruelty in its personal, communal and institutional encounters in human life. Drawing on Nietzsche's challenge of cruelty to the western tradition, the work offers a comprehensive study of how cruelty undermines care, trust, respect and justice – all those elements of human reciprocity that mark our lives as interdependent beings. The work concludes with a tightly written Epilogue on interpreting the theological meaning and accessibility of reconciliation today.
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All those interested in intellectual history, practical theology, the intersection of culture and theology, public theology, theological ethics, philosophers, theologians and interdisciplinarians.
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Foreword – by Robert J. Schreiter. xv
Acknowledgments. xix
Introduction. 1
Chapter One – Encountering Cruelty: Trajectory of an Inquiry. 19
A) Introduction – An Intersection of Four Queries on a Topos. 27
B) The Lodestar – To ‘Know Oneself ’ and Nietzsche’s Way of Cruelty. 48
C) Cruelty: Etymology, Normativity, Tragic Existence. 84
D) Correlative Cartography – The Topography of Cruelty in Fracture-Artery-Contour. 111
E) Remarks for Transition. 115
Chapter Two – Intra-Personal Cruelty: Self-Objectification. 119
A) Introduction – Seeking a Point of Departure – Topography, Rising-In-Thought, Diving-Down. 121
B) An Argument for a Distinct Anthropological Trajectory. 122
C) Introduction – An Anthropological Assessment: Oneself. 135
D) The Narrative of Job – Th e Cry Against Cruelty. 151
E) The Artery of Intra-Personal Objectification. 157
F) Five Contours in the Artery of Self-Objectification. 166
G) The Supra-Narratives of Adam and Cain. 187
H) Remarks for Transition. 208
Chapter Three – Interpersonal Cruelty: The Artery of the Struggle for Recognition. 211
A) Introduction – Charting an Interpersonal Topography in Western Thought. 212
B) The Role of Desire in the Interpersonal Struggle for Recognition. 245
C) Girard’s Delphi – Mimetic Rivalry and the Concealment of Cruelty. 249
D) The Artery of Recognition. 263
E) Deuteronomy: 7.1–2 and 20:1–20 – The Narrative of the Canaanites. 271
F) The Artery of Recognition Continued – Cruelty in the Name of Love. 296
G) Remarks for Transition. 312
Chapter Four – Institutional Cruelty: The Issue of Justice. 315
A) Introduction – Toward a Moniker of the Institutional Sphere. 316
B) The Trespass of Cruelty in the Institutional Sphere: Rising-In-Thought, Diving-Down. 329
C) The Public Execution of David Jr. Ward. 335
D) Cruelty at the Cross. 359
E) The Life and Public Execution of Jesus of Nazareth. 365
F) Remarks for Transition: On This Side of a Narrative Lacuna. 386
Epilogue – Dispatch: Consideration of Some Tenets for Reconciliation. 391
A) Introduction – Reviewing the Project. 391
B) A Dispatch – Consideration of some Tenets for Reconciliation. 393
C) Concluding Remarks. 406
Bibliography. 407
Index. 423
