Thomas / Springhart Exploring Vulnerability

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-647-54063-4
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Deutsch, 264 Seiten

Vulnerability is an essential but also an intriguing ambiguous part of the human condition. This book con-ceptualizes vulnerability to be a fundamental threat and deficit and at the same time to be a powerful resource for transformation.The exploration is undertaken in multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches the human condition in fruitful conversations with medical, psychological, legal, theological, political and philosophical investiga-tions of vulnerability.The multidisciplinary approach opens the space for a broad variety of deeply interrelated topics. Thus, vulnerability is analyzed with respect to diverse aspects of human and social life, such as violence and power, the body and social institutions. Theologically questions of sin and redemption and eventually the nature of the Divine are taken up. Throughout the book phenomenological descriptions are combined with necessary conceptual clarifications. The contributions seek to illuminate the relation between vulnerability as a fundamental unavoidable condition and contingent actualizations related to specific dangers and risks. The core thesis of the book can be seen within its multi-perspectivity: A sound concept of vulnerability is key to a realistic, that is to say neither negative nor illusionary anthropology, to an honest post-theistic understanding of God and eventually to a deeply humanistic understanding of social life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, Günter

Springhart, Heike

Weitere Mitwirkende

Springhart, Heike

Thomas, Günter

Culp, Kristine A.

Bieler, Andrea

Schüle, Andreas

Bell, Dean

Schweiker, William

Hogue, Mike

Lakkis, Stephen

Anderson, Pamela Sue

Mathewes, Charles

Fineman, Martha

Allard, Silas

Miksch, Antje

Bialek, Anna

McCoy, Marina

Christoffersen, Mikkel Gabriel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Seelsorge, Pastoraltheologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Body;8
4;Heike Springhart / Günter Thomas: Introduction;8
5;I. Theology and Religion;12
6;Heike Springhart: Exploring Life's Vulnerability: Vulnerability in Vitality;14
6.1;Vulnerability and anthropological realism;14
6.2;Anthropological realism and vulnerability;17
6.3;Acknowledgement of vulnerability versus striving for invulnerability;21
6.4;Vulnerability and Resilience;23
6.5;Valuing vulnerability as Enhancing of Life;24
6.6;Dimensions of Vulnerability – a Matrix;26
6.7;Love's vulnerability – Vision and vulnerability;32
7;Günter Thomas: Divine Vulnerability, Passion and Power;36
7.1;Introduction;36
7.2;Historical orientations: Three views on divine vulnerability;37
7.2.1;Christian faith and the ?root-disaster' of the cross;37
7.2.2;The in/vulnerable God and the search for understanding the cross;38
7.2.3;The suffering God in 20th century theology: A solution with a problem;40
7.3;Conceptual orientations: Variations on vulnerability;42
7.4;The cross of Jesus Christ: Divine vulnerability, risk and passion;45
7.4.1;The cross in light of the incarnation as an act of passion;45
7.4.2;The cross as dark possibility of a vulnerable life;46
7.5;The resurrection of Jesus Christ: Creative response and limitation of the risks of vulnerability;48
7.5.1;The resurrection as confirmation: vulnerable life and divine intentions;48
7.5.2;The resurrection as rejection: the limitation of human vulnerability and the fight against the triumph of violence;49
7.5.3;The resurrection as transformation: The power to maintain divine intentions over against resistance;51
7.6;Divine vulnerability – Necessary differentiations;54
7.6.1;Apparent divine vulnerability;55
7.6.2;Self-constrained divine vulnerability;55
7.6.3;Strong divine vulnerability;56
7.7;Responsive divine vulnerability;56
8;Kristine A. Culp: Vulnerability and the Susceptibility to Transformation;60
8.1;A hurricane and the plague: Narrating and managing risk;60
8.1.1;A society permeated by risk;61
8.2;The plague in Wittenberg, 1527;62
8.3;A theological account of vulnerability;64
8.3.1;Theology in the thick of life;64
8.3.2;Features of a theological account of vulnerability;66
8.3.3;(a) Vulnerability addressed theologically in relation to an account of life before God;66
8.3.4;(b) Vulnerability as an enduring feature of creaturely life;67
8.3.5;(c) Vulnerability as susceptibility to change, for ill and for good;68
8.3.6;(d) Vulnerability in contrast to strategies of invulnerability;69
8.4;Resilience, Invulnerability, and Transformation;70
9;Andrea Bieler: Enhancing Vulnerable Life: Phenomenological and Practical Theological Explorations;72
9.1;Fundamental and Situated Vulnerability;72
9.2;Oscillation of Having a Body and Being a Body;74
9.3;Permeable Affectivity;77
9.4;Duration and Perspectivity;78
9.5;Becoming in the Realm of Creative Passivity;81
9.6;Divine Vulnerability;81
10;Andreas Schüle: “All Flesh”: Imperfection and Incompleteness in Old Testament Anthropology;84
10.1;Woundedness in Greek and Hebraic Storytelling;84
10.2;Human Beauty and Anthropological Realism;86
10.3;The Incompleteness of “All Flesh”;88
10.4;Imperfection as the Reality of “All Flesh”;90
10.5;Conclusions;93
11;Dean Phillip Bell: Vulnerability in Judaism: Anthropological and Divine Dimensions;94
11.1;Introduction;94
11.2;Divine Dimensions of Vulnerability;95
11.3;Anthropological Dimensions of Vulnerability;98
11.3.1;Earthquakes;99
11.3.2;Plagues;100
11.3.3;Floods;102
11.4;Conclusions: Understanding Vulnerability;105
12;II. Ethics;108
13;William Schweiker: Vulnerability and the Moral Life: Theological and Ethical Reflections;110
13.1;Introduction;110
13.2;A Typology of Beliefs;112
13.3;Theological Insights;117
13.4;What Direction for Ethics?;120
14;Michael S. Hogue: Ecological Emergency and Elemental Democracy: Vulnerability, Resilience and Solidarity;124
14.1;Introduction;124
14.2;Panarchy, Vulnerability and Resilience;125
14.3;Towards Elemental Democracy;134
15;Stephen Lakkis: Enforcing Vulnerability in Contexts of Social Injustice: A View from Taiwan;136
15.1;Introduction: Vulnerability as an issue of scale, rather than kind;136
15.2;Outdoing the Other in Pursuit of Greater Invulnerability?;138
15.3;Ontological Invulnerability and De-human-ization;140
15.4;To Be-little the Mighty: Justice and the Enforcement of Vulnerability;142
15.5;An unconscionable solution? A Taiwanese Postscript on the Sunflower Movement;145
16;Pamela Sue Anderson: Arguing for “Ethical” Vulnerability: Towards a Politics of Care?;148
16.1;Introduction;148
16.2;Preliminary questions: care, justice and ethical vulnerability;149
16.3;A brief Coda;163
17;III. Law and Politics;164
18;Charles Mathewes: Vulnerability and Political Theology;166
18.1;Introduction;166
18.2;Preliminaries: Context and Definition;167
18.3;Vulnerability in Christian Theology;169
18.3.1;Protological insights: Vulnerability as Creatureliness;170
18.3.2;Christological and Eschatological Insights;171
18.4;Vulnerability in Christian Political Theology;173
18.4.1;Thinking Institutionally;174
18.4.2;The Habitus it Commands: Humility and Gratitude;176
18.4.3;Practices of Reformation;179
18.5;Conclusion: The Churches and Public Philosophy;182
19;Martha Albertson Fineman / Silas W. Allard: Vulnerability, the Responsive State, and the Role of Religion;186
19.1;Introduction;186
19.2;The “Still Face” of a Compassionately-Challenged Society;187
19.3;Understandings of the Human and the Collective in Contemporary Society;189
19.4;Vulnerability Theory;192
19.5;Vulnerability, Religion, and the Responsive State;195
19.6;The Religious Narrative and the Responsive Nomos;196
19.7;The Role of Religious Institutions in the Responsive State;198
19.8;Religious Exercise in the Responsive State;201
19.9;Conclusion;204
20;IV. Medicine and Philosophy;206
21;Antje Miksch: Vulnerability and Health;208
22;Anna F. Bialek: Vulnerability and Time;216
22.1;Cavarero: Inclining the Sovereign Subject;218
22.2;Coakley: Anticipation in Prayer;222
22.3;Proposals;227
23;Marina Berzins McCoy: Wounded Gods and Wounded Men in Homer's Iliad;230
24;Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen: Vulnerability and Risk;244
24.1;Introduction;244
24.2;Disaster Vulnerability;246
24.3;Insurance and Vulnerability;250
24.4;Personal Risk and Vulnerability;254
24.5;Conclusion;257
25;Authors;258
26;Index;260

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas, Günter
Prof. Dr. Dr. Günter Thomas ist ordinierter Pfarrer der Württembergischen Landeskirche, seit 2004 Professor für Systematische Theologie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum und Mitglied der Synode der Evangelischen Kirche in Westfalen.

Bieler, Andrea
Dr. Andrea Bieler ist Professorin für Praktische Theologie an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Basel.

Thomas, Günter
Prof. Dr. Konrad Schmid ist Professor für alttestamentliche Wissenschaft und frühjüdische Religionsgeschichte an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Zürich.

Springhart, Heike
Dr. Heike Springhart ist Privatdozentin für Systematische Theologie an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg und Studienleiterin des Theologischen Studienhauses Heidelberg. Sie ist ordinierte Pfarrerin der evangelischen Landeskirche in Baden und Mitglieder der Kammer für Theologie der EKD.

Springhart, Heike
Dr. Heike Springhart ist Privatdozentin für Systematische Theologie an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg und Studienleiterin des Theologischen Studienhauses Heidelberg. Sie ist ordinierte Pfarrerin der evangelischen Landeskirche in Baden und Mitglieder der Kammer für Theologie der EKD.