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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2018

Spalte:

1312–1314

Kategorie:

Systematische Theologie: Dogmatik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Dalferth, Ingolf U.

Titel/Untertitel:

Creatures of Possibility. The Theological Basis of Human Freedom.

Verlag:

Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Press 2016. 240 S. Geb. US$ 32,00. ISBN 978-0-8010-9810-9.

Rezensent:

Markus Mühling

This is the English version of Ingolf U. Dalferth’s German book Umsonst (gratis, 2011), translated by Jo Bennett. It consists of sever-al chapters that were originally essays. Nevertheless, it has an overall coherence, and can be understood as an important contribution to Christian anthropology. Its central theme is providing a counterbalance to the philosophically and theologically common, but highly problematic, opinion that humans are deficient beings, by stressing that faith let humans perceive themselves and the world as creatures. Therefore, they perceive their being as a gift of grace, and consequently in light of this gift they must decide how to behave. The different possibilities for response – a thankful ac-knowledgment, a lamenting acknowledgment, denial, being ...


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