A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross

What does the cross, both as a historical event and a symbol of religious discourse, tell us about human beings? Brian Gregor draws together a hermeneutics of the self - through Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Taylor - and a theology of the cross - through Luther, Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and Junge [...]
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What does the cross, both as a historical event and a symbol of religious discourse, tell us about human beings? Brian Gregor draws together a hermeneutics of the self - through Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Taylor - and a theology of the cross - through Luther, Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and Jungel. He offers a bold and original view of what philosophical anthropology might look like if it took the cross seriously instead of breaking it down into competing philosophical concepts.