Good and Evil: Interpreting a Human Condition

by Edward Farley

Overview

What does it mean to be human in a world filled with tragedy? With creativity and insight Edward Farley, one of today's most respected theologians, here addresses this universal and haunting question of evil. Farley anchors his discussion firmly in interhuman (I-thou) dynamics as a key to unfolding the personal and social spheres of human existence. "It is," says Farley, "the corruption of elemental passions and the resulting contagion of the personal and social spheres that provide a total view of human evil and its redemptive possibilities."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800624477
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	11/01/1990
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Edward Farley is Buffington Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: On Cognitive Style

PART ONE: THREE SPHERES OF HUMAN REALITY

The Interhuman Sphere

The Social Sphere

The Personal Sphere

The Biological Aspect of Personal Being

Elemental Passions of Personal Being

PART TWO: A PARADIGM OF GOOD AND EVIL

Idolatry

Being-Founded

Corrupted Historicity and the Creation of Beauty

The Corrupted Passion of Subjectivity and the Freedom of Vitality

The Corrupted Passion of the Interhuman and Agapic Freedom

The Corrupted Passion for Reality and the Freedom of Wonder

The Corruption and Freedom of Bodily Life

Alienation and Communion: The Redemption of the Interhuman

Subjugation: The Structure of Social Evil

Social Redemption

Redemptive Communities

Index