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Author Snell, R. J

Title Authentic cosmopolitanism : love, sin, and grace in the Christian university / R.J. Snell and Steven D. Cone
Published Cambridge [England] : James Clarke & Co, 2014
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Dedication and Copyright; Contents; Preface; Thinkers or Lovers: A Brief Introduction; PERSONS AS LOVERS; INTENTIONALITY AND THE ENGAGEMENT OF LOVE; THE CONVERTED SUBJECT; A FINAL WORD; Part One: The Order of Authentic Love and Intellectual Conversion; 1. Noetic Exegesis and the Authentic Intellect; PLATO AND THE THERAPY OF DESIRE; AUGUSTINE AND INTELLECTUAL CONVERSION; AQUINAS: THE HERMENEUTIC KEY; CONCLUSION; 2. Martin Heidegger, Charles Taylor, and the Caring Person; HEIDEGGER AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF FACTICITY; CHARLES TAYLOR AND ENGAGED AGENCY; CONCLUSION
3. Bernard Lonergan, Intellectual Conversion, and Authentic LoveWHAT IS TRUTH?; AUGUSTINE'S DILEMMA; BEYOND ANIMAL KNOWING; KNOWING BEING; CRITERIA OF OBJECTIVITY; THOMAS ON WISDOM AND CHARITY; HEIDEGGER ON SELVES AND WORLD; TAYLOR ON SITUATED REASON; RELIGIOUS CONVERSION AS GROUNDING INTELLECTUAL CONVERSION; AUTHENTIC BEING AS BEING-IN-LOVE; Part Two: Educating for Moral and Religious Conversion; 4. Disorder and Revolt: The Effects of Sin; THOMAS ON ORIGINAL JUSTICE; THE DISRUPTION OF THE WILL; CONSONANCE AND CONTRAST WITH REFORMED DOCTRINE OF SIN
LONERGAN'S TRANSPOSITION FROM FACULTY PSYCHOLOGYBIAS; ALIENATION; 5. The Graciousness of Being-There: Moral and Religious Conversion; GRACE RECONSIDERED; SANCTIFYING GRACE; RELIGIOUS CONVERSION; GROWTH AS METAPHOR FOR ETERNITY; HUMAN SKILLS AND DEVELOPMENT; MASLOW AND PEAK EXPERIENCE; RELIGIOUS CONVERSION AND THE HORIZON OF GROWTH; FEELINGS AS SKILLS OF THE KINGDOM; MORAL CONVERSION; RELIGIOUS CONVERSION GROUNDS MORAL CONVERSION; Part Three: Educating for Value: Authentic Humans and the Order of Love; 6. Value Ethics: Forming Moral Agents; DEONTOLOGY AND CONSEQUENTIALISM
THE FORGOTTEN MORAL SUBJECT AND VIRTUE ETHICSVIRTUE ETHICS AS MORAL THEORY; VALUE ETHICS; AUTHENTIC HUMAN BEING; CONCLUSION; 7. Cosmopolis: Value, Justice, Authenticity; RENAISSANCE OF AN IDEAL; PROGRESS, DECLINE, AND REDEMPTION; CONCLUSION; Conclusion: An Education for Our Time; PRINCIPLES FOR A TIMELY EDUCATION; Bibliography; You might also be interested in; Back Cover
Summary Humans are lovers, and yet a good deal of pedagogical theory, Christian or otherwise, assumes an anthropology at odds with human nature, fixed in a model of humans as ""thinking things."" Turning to Augustine, this book provides a normative vision for Christian higher education. A phenomenological reappropriation of human subjectivity reveals an authentic order to love, even when damaged by sin, and loves, made authentic by grace, allow the intellectually, morally, and religiously converted person to attain an integral unity. Properly understanding the integral relation between love and the fu
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Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 12, 2014)
Subject Christian universities and colleges.
Christian college students -- Religious life
Education -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
EDUCATION -- Higher.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
Christian college students -- Religious life.
Christian universities and colleges.
Education -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Form Electronic book
Author Cone, Steven D
ISBN 9780227901809
0227901800