Human Nature Human Evil And Religion
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Part I – Becker’s Early Anthropological Perspective
Chapter 1. The Human Situation And The Development Of The Individual Personality
Chapter 2. The Vagaries Of Human And Cultural Construction
Chapter 3. Human Evil And Religion
Part II – Becker’s Mature Anthropological Perspective
Chapter 4. The Human Situation And The Development Of The Individual Personality Revisited
Chapter 5. Successes And Failures In Individual And Cultural Formation
Chapter 6. Human Evil And Religion In Becker’s Mature Thought
Part III – Ernest Becker’s Anthropology And Christian Theology
Chapter 7. Classical Christian Perspectives On The Human Problem
Chapter 8. Contemporary Christian Perspectives On The Human Problem
Chapter 9. Christian Perspectives On The Solution To The Human Problem
Chapter 10. The Human Problem And Its Solution: Ernest Becker And Christian Theology
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In this book, Jarvis Streeter details Ernest Becker’s anthropological theories and compares them with traditional and contemporary Christian thought on human nature, sin, and salvation in order to see how the two approaches compare and where Becker might have insights to offer contemporary Christian thinkers.
Ernest Becker was a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of human nature and motivation, drawing from the fields of evolutionary biology, psychology, psychiatry, cultural anthropology, sociology, philosophy and religion to create what he termed a Science of Man. His goal was to understand the most basic human motives, particularly those that led to evil behavior in order to ameliorate them and create a more humane world. He concluded, following the thought of Alfred Adler, Otto Rank and philosophical and religious existentialism, that the related urges to avoid death anxiety, gain self-esteem and symbolically deny death were the key human motives–ones which were also responsible for human evil–and that religion has had a complex role to play for both good and ill in human history.
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SKU (ISBN): 9780761843573
ISBN10: 0761843574
Jarvis Streeter
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: December 2008
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group
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