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The Fall of Humankind and Social Progress: Engagements with Emil Brunner book cover

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The Fall of Humankind and Social Progress Engagements with Emil Brunner

By Arttu Mäkipää Copyright 2024
276 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book investigates the link between human capabilities and the preconditions for social progress through an engagement with the theological anthropology of Swiss theologian Emil Brunner (1889–1966). It places Brunner’s thought in dialogue with selected contributors from the contemporary social sciences, examining approaches from economics, sociology and philosophy as put forward by Gary S.... Read more

1 Introduction

PART I
The Fall and Contemporary Social Sciences: Engaging Emil Brunner

2 Emil Brunner’s Theological Anthropology

3 Economics: The Human Being and Human Capital

4 Development: The Capabilities Approach

5 Sociology: The Person in Social Sciences

Part II
The Fall and Social Progress: Who Is in Control?

6 Sin and Moral Evil in the Social Realm

7 Imbalanced Social Progress?

8 The Paradox of Economic Progress

9 Conclusion

Biography

Arttu Mäkipää is an affiliated researcher in the Department of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF) in Leuven, Belgium. Trained in both economics and theology, he has also worked as a European Union official for a number of years and has extensive experience in the international policy field.

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