In this book, Eric E. Hall takes up the question of the meaning of a vigorously used concept in the liberal west: authenticity and the pursuit of personal originality. By uncovering this idea's uses within three deepening contexts - the ethical, the ontological, and the theological - the author unfolds authenticity's origins and implications. To the degree that authenticity seeks in all contexts freedom from social horizons, the conclusion renders attempts to embody this ideal secularly impossible. The goal requires a total transcendence that only the divine could fulfill. Human authenticity thus emerges in creatively imitating God's self-sacrificial expression on the cross, which both transcends and revalues the horizons of this world.
| ISBN: | 9783161538636 |
| Publication date: | 11th August 2015 |
| Author: | Eric E Hall |
| Publisher: | JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 237 pages |
| Series: | Religion in Philosophy and Theology |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of religion Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Topics in philosophy Ethics and moral philosophy Philosophy of religion Religious ethics Christianity Theology |