The Postmodern Self in Theological Perspective: A Communal, Narrative, and Ecclesial Approach

Drawing on the work of Stanley J. Grenz and Paul Ricoeur, this article proposes a communal, narrative, and ecclesial response to what Grenz calls ‘the dissipation of the self’ after modernity. Tracing briefly the rise of the self-sufficient self of modernity attention is then given to the deconstruc...

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Auteur principal: Almon, Russell L. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2017
Dans: Ecclesiology
Année: 2017, Volume: 13, Numéro: 2, Pages: 179-196
RelBib Classification:NBC Dieu
NBE Anthropologie
NBN Ecclésiologie
VA Philosophie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Stanley J. Grenz Paul Ricoeur Trinity narrative hermeneutics church imago Dei postmodernism
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Résumé:Drawing on the work of Stanley J. Grenz and Paul Ricoeur, this article proposes a communal, narrative, and ecclesial response to what Grenz calls ‘the dissipation of the self’ after modernity. Tracing briefly the rise of the self-sufficient self of modernity attention is then given to the deconstructed self of postmodernity. The article then utilizes the imago Dei as a theological resource, in conversation with Grenz and Ricoeur, for the reconstruction of the postmodern self along communal, narrative, and ecclesial lines. The final conclusion is that the postmodern self receives theological relief in the form of the ‘ecclesial self’ constituted in trinitarian community ‘in Christ’ and through the Spirit within Christ’s new humanity.
ISSN:1745-5316
Contient:In: Ecclesiology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455316-01302004