Bodies inhabiting the world

• Titel: Bodies inhabiting the world
• Titelzusatz: Scandinavian creation theology and the question of home
• Mitwirkende: Nelson, Derek R. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Gregersen, Niels Henrik [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Uggla, Bengt Kristensson [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Derek R. Nelson, Niels Henrik Gregersen, and Bengt Kristensson Uggla
• Verlagsort: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 221 Seiten)
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-1-6669-3144-0
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• K10plus-PPN: 1884865704
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Fourteen theologians consider what it means to have a home in the world. Drawing on and also critically engaging with Scandinavian creation theology, they explore how we are at home (or are threatened with its opposite) in one's own skin, dwelling, community, or even the cosmos writ large.

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Home and Creation -- Home and Creation Dynamics -- Living on Borrowed Ground -- Coming Home to God -- Pilgrim's Homecoming -- Homes, Bodies, and Society -- The Body as Home and Horizon -- Who Does Not Want to Have a Family? -- Home Is Where Trust Is -- Expectations of a Second-Skin Dwelling -- Ordinary Lives and the Home as a Safe Place -- Cosmos as Home -- Deep Inhabitations -- At Home in the Universe? -- At Home in the Cosmos -- Embodying Creation and Gospel -- Index -- About the Contributors.