Created Co-Creator in the Perspective of Church and Ethics
Philip Hefner's work on created co-creator is presented for consideration as a contemporary theological anthropology. Its reception within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America falls into three main lines, which are reviewed here because they are suggestive of its potential impact on Chris...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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Zygon
Year: 2004, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 841-858 |
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B Ethics B created co-creator B Obligation B Creation B responsibility ethics B Anthropology B Hans Jonas B Philip Hefner |
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| Summary: | Philip Hefner's work on created co-creator is presented for consideration as a contemporary theological anthropology. Its reception within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America falls into three main lines, which are reviewed here because they are suggestive of its potential impact on Christian thinking. This review raises two major questions and leads to a critique. The first question is whether created co-creator should be replaced by another term for the sake of more clearly encapsulating the ideas represented in Hefner's work. The second question concerns the moral “payoff” of created co-creator. Such questions lead to the critique that Hefner's corpus gives insufficient attention to responsibility as integral to freedom and that it lacks a theory of obligation. I then sketch the amenability and benefit of linking created co-creator with “responsibility ethics,” exemplified by the work of Hans Jonas. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00623.x |