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Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Contributor(s): Hütter, Reinhard (Author)
ISBN: 0802867413     ISBN-13: 9780802867414
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $46.35  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - Anthropology
Dewey: 230.209
LCCN: 2012002499
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.60 lbs) 521 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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In Dust Bound for Heaven Reinhard Hutter shows how Thomas Aquinas's view of the human being as dust bound for heaven weaves together elements of two questions without fusion or reduction. Does humanity still have an insatiable thirst for God that sends each person on an irrepressible religious quest that only the vision of God can quench? Or must the human being, living after the fall, become a -new creation- in order to be readied for heaven?
Hutter also applies Thomas's anthropology to a host of pressing contemporary concerns, including the modern crisis of faith and reason, political theology, the relationship between divine grace and human freedom, and many more. The concluding chapter explores the Christological center of Thomas's theology.

Contributor Bio(s): Hutter, Reinhard: - Reinhard Hütter is professor of Christian theology at Duke Divinity School. His other books include Reason and the Reasons of Faith (with Paul J. Griffiths) and Ressourcement Thomism: Sacred Doctrine, the Sacraments, and the Moral Life.