Die Würde des Menschen: Ein Beitrag zur Anthropologie in der alten Kirche. By Ulrich Volp
This book starts, as the author points out, from current ethical and legal debates about human rights and human dignity. In such discussions some claims about the origins of those concepts in late ancient thought and, more specifically, in late ancient Christian thought, are regularly made; but thes...
| Published in: | The journal of theological studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
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| Review of: | Die Würde des Menschen (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2006) (Zachhuber, Johannes)
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| Summary: | This book starts, as the author points out, from current ethical and legal debates about human rights and human dignity. In such discussions some claims about the origins of those concepts in late ancient thought and, more specifically, in late ancient Christian thought, are regularly made; but these are vague. Volp therefore proposes in his study to give a (preliminary) account of patristic concepts of human dignity within the framework of anthropology. He starts from their presuppositions in ancient philosophical (ch. 2) and biblical, including early Jewish, thought (ch. 3), and goes on with brief sketches of all major Greek and Latin theologians up to Augustine (ch. 4). In separate sub-chapters anthropological concepts are contextualized vis-à-vis ‘gnosis’ (4.1), ‘logos’ (4. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln034 |