Wolfhart Pannenberg on Human Destiny (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

✍ Scribed by Kam Ming Wong

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 188
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Based on one of the greatest living theologians, Wolfhart Pannenberg, this book is the first comprehensive study of 'human destiny'. Mapping out the movement of humanity over the course of its history to its common destiny from creation through sin and ethics to eschatology, the book also examines the extent to which scholars such as Herder have influenced Pannenberg's work in this important area and shows how Pannenberg's project on ethics is related to human destiny.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Setting the Scene
2 Image of God as both Fount and Destiny of Humanity
Actualisation of the Image of God
How the Image of God is to be Realised
What Constitutes the Image of God
Human Destiny as Common Destiny
Further Evaluation of Herder in Relation to Pannenberg
Human Destiny based on Proleptic Christology
Significance of Jesus’ Resurrection for Human Destiny
3 Openness of Humanity
Experiencing Oneself in Terms of the World
To What is Humankind Open?
Openness to the World as Beyond Death into God’s Eternity
Openness to the World in the Light of Historicity of Humanity
4 Sin as an Antithesis to Human Destiny
Pannenberg in the Augustinian Tradition of the Doctrine of Sin
Sin in the Perspective of Openness to the World
Sin as Passivity to Destiny and Human Creatureliness
5 Eschatology and Ethics in Human Destiny
Is It a Moral Destiny?
A Destiny Oriented to the Future
Content of Eschatological Destiny: Kingdom of God
Actualisation of Human Destiny: Arrival of the Kingdom of God
Ethics and Eschatology: How Far Apart?
6 Theological Anthropology: Destiny-centred, History-focused
Bibliography
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