The Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgment

by Brendan Case

Overview

The Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgement offers a theological meditation on the human being as an accountable animal. Brendan Case introduces the idea of accountability, not merely as a structural feature of human institutions, but as a disposition to submit to rightly-constituted authority, whether divine or human. He relates this conception of accountability to the key themes of "justice, justification, and judgment".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567697691
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/08/2021
Series:	T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Brendan Case is Associate Director for Research, The Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction
"Those with Promises to Keep"

Chapter 1
"Rendering to Each His Right": Accountability as a Sub-Type of Justice

Chapter 2
“You Judge Each according to his Ways”: Ezekiel on Human Obedience, the Killing Letter, and the Life-Giving Spirit

Chapter 3
“The Doers of the Law Will Be Justified”: Resolving a Pauline Dilemma

Chapter 4
Christ as Adam's Righteousness: Edenic Justification as a Reason for the Incarnation

Chapter 5
Family, Polity, Church: Corporate Persons and the Origins of Accountability

Chapter 6
Fiery Furnaces and Final Farthings: Purgatory and the Problem of Postmortem Accountability

Chapter 7
On the Varieties of Infernalist Experience: Accountability in Everlasting, Annihilationist, and Purgatorial Hells

Conclusion:
What's Next?

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

With The Accountable Animal Brendan Case offers a thoughtful, incisive and helpful exercise in constructive theology. Case builds an account of what it means for human beings to be accountable to – in a certain way to be just before – each other and God. The book is very well and widely researched, well-ordered and eloquently written.” —International Jourbanal of Systematic Theology

“Case's argument here is not only extremely well made, and more than compelling, but something of a model for how a philosophical theologian should go about concentrating on a single question and pursuing the correct answer along every possible logical and hermeneutical path.” —David Bentley Hart, Former Fellow, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, USA

“Beautifully written, profoundly engaging, and theologically sophisticated, The Accountable Animal is a joy to read. Throughout, a penetrating argument is constructed for why accountability defines what it means to be human. Giving fresh attention to this neglected topic, Case offers a groundbreaking contribution not only to theological anthropology and ethics but to theology as a whole.” —Dr Andrew Torrance, Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of St. Andrews, UK

“Brendan Case's The Accountable Animal is a richly suggestive, genuine work of theology, combining speculative verve and thoughtful engagement with Scripture.” —Nathan Eubank, Associate Professor of New Testament, University of Notre Dame, USA

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