Anthropology in Theological Perspective

by Pannenberg, Wolfhart

• ISBN13: 9780567086877
• ISBN10: 0567086879
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

In this comprehensive study, a renowned theologian examines the anthropological disciplines-human biology, psychology, cultural anthropology, sociology and history-for their religious implications. The result is a theological anthropology that does not derive from dogma or prejudice, but critically evaluates the findings of the disciplines.Pannenberg begins with a consideration of human beings as part of nature; moves on to focus on the human person; and then considers the social world: its culture, history and institutions. All the elements of this multi-faceted study unite in the final chapter on the relation of human beings to their history.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	9	(11)
Introduction: Theology and Anthropology	11	(16)
Part One THE PERSON IN NATURE
The Uniqueness of Humanity	27	(16)
The Behaviorist Approach and Its Critics	28	(3)
Is the Structure of Behavior Peculiar to the Species?	31	(3)
Philosophical Anthropology	34	(9)
Openness to the World and Image of God	43	(37)
Herder as the Point of Departure for Modern Philosophical Anthropology	43	(4)
Herder's Relation to the Traditional Conception of the Image of God in Humanity	47	(13)
The Significance of Herder's Thought for Contemporary Philosophical Anthropology	60	(14)
Relation to the World as Expression of the Image of God	74	(6)
Centrality and Sin	80	(77)
Brokenness and Distortion of Human Identity	80	(7)
Egoism and the Failure of Selfhood	87	(17)
Human Nature, Sin, and Freedom	104	(15)
The Universality of Sin: The First Sin, Original (Inherited) Sin, Death	119	(23)
Sin and Wickedness	142	(15)
Part Two THE HUMAN PERSON AS A SOCIAL BEING
Subjectivity and Society	157	(34)
Self-Consciousness and Sociality	157	(8)
The Independence of the Individual in Society	165	(14)
The Way to the Independence of the Individual	165	(5)
The Antagonism Between Individual and Society	170	(9)
The Constitution of the Ego by Its Relation to the Thou	179	(6)
G. H. Mead's Theory of the Self	185	(6)
The Problem of Identity	191	(52)
The Ego and the Process of Identity Formation According to Psychoanalysis	191	(9)
The Ego and the Self	200	(24)
Personality and Its Religious Dimension	224	(19)
Identity and Nonidentity as a Theme of the Affective Life	243	(72)
Feeling, Its Moods and Passions	244	(21)
Alienation and Sin	265	(20)
Alienation	267	(9)
Alienation and Religion	276	(5)
The Depth of Alienation	281	(4)
Guilt and Consciousness of Guilt	285	(8)
Conscience, Self-Consciousness, Consciousness of Meaning	293	(22)
Part Three THE SHARED WORLD
Foundations of Culture	315	(82)
Aporias in the Concept of Culture	315	(7)
Freedom in Play	322	(17)
Language as Medium of the Spirit	339	(58)
Language and Thought	340	(21)
Speech Act and Conversation	361	(16)
Imagination and Reason	377	(7)
Theology and the Religious Implications of Language	384	(13)
The Cultural Meaning of Social Institutions	397	(88)
The Concept of Social Institution	398	(18)
Property, Work, and Economy	416	(11)
Sexuality, Marriage, and Family	427	(17)
Political Order, Justice, and Religion	444	(29)
Anthropology and the State	444	(9)
Power and Rule	453	(9)
Legitimacy and Representation	462	(11)
Religion in the Cultural System	473	(12)
Human Beings and History	485	(48)
Historicity and Human Nature	487	(15)
The Modern State of the Problem	487	(5)
The Development of Historicity	492	(3)
The Christian Idea of Human Historicity	495	(7)
History as a Process of Subject Formation	502	(13)
History and Spirit	515	(18)
The Incompleteness of History and the Presence of Truth	515	(7)
Spirit, Person, and Community	522	(11)
Index of Scriptural References	533	(3)
Index of Names	536	(10)
Index of Subjects	546