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Acting for Others

Trinitarian Communion and Christological Agency

  • Hardback
  • 228 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm

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For theologians seeking deeper ecclesiology insights

Challenges the limited view of church as just a family

You will understand your role in communal Christian action

This book delves into the church as a community and the nature of human action.

This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient. In this, Arendt's concept of action and her criticism of privatizing the public political space by viewing it as a family are engaged through Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology and political theology and Staniloae's triadology and theology of the world. The roots of the different views of Arendt and Bonhoeffer on family symbolism are traced to their distinct notions of acting. Human action becomes the central theme of the debate-particularly influenced by the Eastern Orthodox ecumenist Staniloae and his vision of the communal relationship and interactivity of human subjects, and their place in the world. Synthesizing Bonhoeffer and Staniloae, Christian calling is unfolded not only as acting for others, but also with others as Trinitarian participatory response-response to the words and deeds of the three divine Persons acting in communion. In being drawn into these unique relations, human beings are empowered for communal and common acting of equals participating in public-political issues.
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  • Title

    Acting for Others

  • Author

    Michaela Kusnierikova

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    March 2017

  • Weight

    500g

  • Page Count

    228

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781506423432

  • ISBN-10

    1506423434

  • Eden Code

    4501008

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