RT Article
T1 Desire, dissatisfaction, dispersal: The oddness of desiring God
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 78
IS 4
SP 357
OP 368
A1 Craig, Taylor ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1948077779
AB An account of human subjectivity is built up from an analysis of the fundamental human desire for God. In conversation with Karl Rahner and Blaise Pascal, it is argued that this desire does not have any conceivable conditions of satisfiability. This leads to an account of human beings as fundamentally distractible, fragmented, opaque to themselves and non-self-identical; however, none of these are viewed as essentially problematic, arising instead out of the basic human-God relation rather than from a fallen condition. A range of implications for ethics and social criticism are briefly suggested.
K1 Blaise Pascal
K1 Karl Rahner
K1 Kathryn Tanner
K1 Desire
K1 Fragmentation
K1 Theological Anthropology
DO 10.1017/S0036930625101051