{"product_id":"inner-animalities-eric-daryl-meyer-9780823280155","title":"Inner Animalities: Theology and the End of the Human","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our supposed uniqueness among earth's creatures--our freedom, our self-awareness, our language, or our rationality. \u003ci\u003eInner Animalities\u003c\/i\u003e turns this assumption on its head. Arguing that much theological anthropology contains a deeply anti-ecological impulse, the book draws creatively on historical and scriptural texts to imagine an account of human life centered in our creaturely commonality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe tendency to deny our own human animality leaves our self-understanding riven with contradictions, disavowals, and repressions. How are human relationships transformed when God draws us into communion through our instincts, our desires, and our bodily needs? Meyer argues that humanity's exceptional status is not the result of divine endorsement, but a delusion of human sin. Where the work of God knits human beings back into creaturely connections, ecological degradation is no longer just a matter of bodily life and death, but a matter of ultimate significance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing a theological perspective to the growing field of Critical Animal Studies, \u003ci\u003eInner Animalities\u003c\/i\u003e puts Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner in conversation with Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Kelly Oliver, and Cary Wolfe. What results is not only a counterintuitive account of human life in relation with nonhuman neighbors, but also a new angle into ecological theology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Daryl Meyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823280152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823280155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019","brand":"Eric Daryl Meyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483720331519,"sku":"9780823280155","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_41352ccb-78ca-48a8-8c87-109c201f601a.jpg?v=1778040218","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inner-animalities-eric-daryl-meyer-9780823280155","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}