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  • 7 - Creaturely Humanity

  • from Part III - This Sacred Life
  • Norman Wirzba, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book:
    This Sacred Life
    Published online:
    08 October 2021
    Print publication:
    14 October 2021, pp 176-211

  • Summary

    To say that human beings are creatures is to say that they are finite, fallible, and defined by their need of others to nurture and support them. It is to understand that people must learn to receive and then share again the life that they have been given. This places people in positions of vulnerability that are often hard to bear. This chapter explores the contours of creatureliness, and examines the character of our interdependence while also describing the communal conditions that are necessary if the vulnerability of people is to be honored rather than violated. Put another way, to live into our creaturely condition it is important for people to exercise forms of power that are modelled on the love of God made incarnate in Jesus. Characterized this way, creatureliness is humanity’s way of participating in the divine love that creates and sustains all of life.

  • Response to Tom Greggs

  • David Kelsey
  • Journal:
    Scottish Journal of Theology / Volume 65 / Issue 4 / November 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 October 2012, pp. 464-470
    Print publication:
    November 2012

  • A colleague commented that it is difficult to give a clear brief summary of Eccentric Existence because it has so many moving parts. That's fair, and for that reason Tom Greggs offers not a précis but, as he says, a ‘tour’ of EE. I am grateful to him for this perceptive, perspicuous and generous tour of the book's premises and conclusions. I want to address as best I can here Greggs's several ‘unsystematic probes’. The probes seem to me to fall into two broad groups, one raising formal or methodological concerns and the other substantive concerns. I shall begin with the first group, taking them up in more or less the order in which they were made.