Tempering the cosmic scope problem in Christian soteriology: hylemorphic animalism and Gregory of Nazianzus
Christian scripture provides good reason to think that Christ's redemptive work has cosmic scope (cf. Colossians 1:19-20). Explanations of how Christ's work might extend to all creation (including any sufficiently human-like extraterrestrials) have not, however, received significant sustai...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2019
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Religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 266-286 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Redemption
/ Extraterrestrial life
/ Animals
/ Hylomorphism
/ Soteriology
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBA Dogmatics NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology |
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| Summary: | Christian scripture provides good reason to think that Christ's redemptive work has cosmic scope (cf. Colossians 1:19-20). Explanations of how Christ's work might extend to all creation (including any sufficiently human-like extraterrestrials) have not, however, received significant sustained attention in theology. In this article, I consider two attempts to explain the cosmic scope of redemption, and after identifying shortcomings with each explanation, I offer a philosophical anthropology (hylemorphic animalism), which when combined with a principle of soteriology due to Gregory of Nazianzus provides a full explanation for how Christ's redemptive work might extend to all creation. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412519000192 |