Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgment
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567697660
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 06/05/2021
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
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".
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
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