Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
Series: New Studies in Christian Ethics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 16 May 2024
- ISBN 9781009476744
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 235x158x19 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English 554
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Short description:
Examining contemporary secular culture and the New Testament, this study explores the contradictions of the concept of human perfection.
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Most people would agree that human perfection is unattainable. Indeed, theologians have typically expressed ambivalence about the possibility of human perfection. Yet, paradoxically, depictions of human perfection are widespread. In this volume, Robin Gill offers an interdisciplinary study of human perfection in contemporary secular culture. He demonstrates that the language of perfection is present in church memorials, popular depictions of sport, food, music and art, liturgy, and philosophy. He contrasts these examples with the socio-psychological concept of 'maladaptive perfectionism', using commercial cosmetic surgery as an example, as well as the 'adaptive perfectionism' suggested in the lives of Henry Holland, Paul Farmer, and, more ambivalently, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Gill then provides an in-depth analysis of New Testament and Septuagint usage of&&&160;teleios&&&160;and theological debates about the human perfection of Jesus. He argues that the Synoptic accounts of the Transfiguration offer a template for a Christian understanding of perfection that has important ecumenical implications within social ethics.
'Perfection, a gospel mandate few can attain! Yet Jesus' Transfiguration illumines God's faithful in his perfection - Gill's brilliant insight for Christian ethics.' Lisa Cahill, J. Donald Monan, S.J. Professor of Theology, Boston College
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Human Perfection: 1. Homo perfectus; 2. Glimpses of artistic perfection; 3. Moral perfection; 4. Perfectionism; Part II. Jesus' Perfection: 5. Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect; 6. Was Jesus perfect?; Part III. Transfiguration and Global Perfection: 7. Perfection and the transfiguration; 8. Perfection: the transfiguration and Abrahamic trust; 9. A perfect planet; Epilogue: the end of perfection?; Select Bibliography in Christian Ethics; Index.
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