Personhood as Ongoing Gift from Others and to Others

Human personhood should be understood as a gift from and to others as well as a permanent and unchanging attribute of what it means to be a human being, for this understanding of human personhood fits better within a contemporary systems-oriented approach to reality. Likewise, for Christians it can...

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Autor principal: Bracken, Joseph A. 1930- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Cambridge Univ. Press [2018]
En: Horizons
Año: 2018, Volumen: 45, Número: 1, Páginas: 1-18
Clasificaciones IxTheo:NBC Dios
NBE Antropología
Otras palabras clave:B Colin Gunton
B Trinity
B Thomas Aquinas
B reciprocal vs. unilateral causality
B Terrence Deacon
B system vs. substance
B Alfred North Whitehead
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Sumario:Human personhood should be understood as a gift from and to others as well as a permanent and unchanging attribute of what it means to be a human being, for this understanding of human personhood fits better within a contemporary systems-oriented approach to reality. Likewise, for Christians it can also be seen as derivative from a more contemporary process-oriented understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity, namely, as co-constitutive members of a transcendent community or archetypal life-system. Finally, given the individualistic character of contemporary Western culture, an emphasis on the interdependence of entities on one another rather than on their independence from one another seems to be more needed at the present moment.
ISSN:2050-8557
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Horizons
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/hor.2018.57