Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures - Rilegato

Griffiths, Paul J.

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ISBN 10: 1481302299 ISBN 13: 9781481302296

Casa editrice: Baylor Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Death is not the end—either for humans or for all creatures. But while Christianity has obsessed over the future of humanity, it has neglected the ends for nonhuman animals, inanimate creatures, and angels. In Decreation, Paul J. Griffiths explores how orthodox Christian theology might be developed to include the last things of all creatures.

Griffiths employs traditional and historical Christian theology of the last things to create both a grammar and a lexicon for a new eschatology. Griffiths imagines heaven as an endless, repetitively static, communal, and enfleshed adoration of the triune God in which angels, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects each find a place. Hell becomes a final and irreversible separation from God—annihilation—sin's true aim and the last success of the sinner. This grammar, Griffiths suggests, gives Christians new ways to think about the redemption of all things, to imagine relationships with nonhuman creatures, and to live in a world devastated by a double fall.

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L'autore:

Paul J. Griffiths is Warren Chair of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Baylor Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1481302299
• ISBN 13: 9781481302296
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 396