Wonder as a New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology: Opened by the World

José Francisco Morales Torres proposes a new theological anthropology based on wonder, which reveals a primordial receptivity in the human person and demands an ethic of sustainability, vulnerability, and solidarity to resist the forces of an idolatrous Market.

Format: Hardback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 10 April 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

José Francisco Morales Torres presents a novel theological anthropology that commences with wonder. He asserts that the profound experience of wonder involves an expansion of the human being through an abundance that permeates the world. This openness leads to a transformative receptivity as the foundation of the individual and to an extravagant Generosity that underpins all creation. Consequently, wonder, rooted in generous Excess, is not merely a gift but also a demand: it necessitates a liberating praxis that resists the forces that flatten the richness of life into what is deemed 'useful and profitable' and that diminish the boundless worth of fellow human beings to mere commodities to be exploited and exchanged at the altar of the idolatrous 'Market. Wonder unveils a primordial receptivity within the human person, which demands of us an ethic of sustainability that does not reduce the other to a commodity, a vulnerability that risks being opened by the other, a commitment to solidarity and liberation that resist the forces of an insatiable, idolatrous Market that seeks "only to steal and kill and destroy."

Weight: 486g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793637482