Exploring Vulnerability

Contributions by Heike Springhart Contributions by Günter Thomas Contributions by Kristine A. Culp Contributions by Andrea Bieler Contributions by Andreas Schüle Contributions by Dean Bell Contributions by William Schweiker Contributions by Mike Hogue Contributions by Stephen Lakkis Contributions by Pamela Sue Anderson Contributions by Charles Mathewes Contributions by Martha Fineman Contributions by Silas Allard Contributions by Antje Miksch Contributions by Anna Bialek Contributions by Marina McCoy Contributions by Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen Edited by Heike Springhart Edited by Günter Thomas

Book cover: Exploring Vulnerability

Extent: 264 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Philosophy, Religious Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(October 2017)

ISBN: 9783525540633

6.34 x 9.33 inches

Price: $94.00

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Vulnerability as a Fundamental Human Condition


Vulnerability is an essential but also an intriguing ambiguous part of the human condition. This book conceptualizes vulnerability to be a fundamental threat and deficit and at the same time to be a powerful resource for transformation.The exploration is undertaken in multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches the human condition in fruitful conversations with medical, psychological, legal, theological, political and philosophical investiga-tions of vulnerability.The multidisciplinary approach opens the space for a broad variety of deeply interrelated topics. Thus, vulnerability is analyzed with respect to diverse aspects of human and social life, such as violence and power, the body and social institutions. Theologically questions of sin and redemption and eventually the nature of the Divine are taken up. Throughout the book phenomenological descriptions are combined with necessary conceptual clarifications. The contributions seek to illuminate the relation between vulnerability as a fundamental unavoidable condition and contingent actualizations related to specific dangers and risks. The core thesis of the book can be seen within its multi-perspectivity: A sound concept of vulnerability is key to a realistic, that is to say neither negative nor illusionary anthropology, to an honest post-theistic understanding of God and eventually to a deeply humanistic understanding of social life.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Gunter Thomas ist ordinierter Pfarrer der Wurttembergischen Landeskirche, seit 2004 Professor fur Systematische Theologie an der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum und Mitglied der Synode der Evangelischen Kirche in Westfalen. Dr. Heike Springhart ist Privatdozentin fur Systematische Theologie an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg und Studienleiterin des Theologischen Studienhauses Heidelberg. Sie ist ordinierte Pfarrerin der evangelischen Landeskirche in Baden und Mitglieder der Kammer fur Theologie der EKD.

  • Contributions by Heike Springhart
  • Contributions by Günter Thomas
  • Contributions by Kristine A. Culp
  • Contributions by Andrea Bieler
  • Contributions by Andreas Schüle
  • Contributions by Dean Bell
  • Contributions by William Schweiker
  • Contributions by Mike Hogue
  • Contributions by Stephen Lakkis
  • Contributions by Pamela Sue Anderson
  • Contributions by Charles Mathewes
  • Contributions by Martha Fineman
  • Contributions by Silas Allard
  • Contributions by Antje Miksch
  • Contributions by Anna Bialek
  • Contributions by Marina McCoy
  • Contributions by Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen
  • Edited by Heike Springhart
  • Edited by Günter Thomas