Lexington Books
Pages: 226
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-7936-3748-2 • Hardback • April 2023 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-7936-3749-9 • eBook • April 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
José Francisco Morales Torres is assistant professor of Latinx Studies and Religion at Chicago Theological Seminary.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: A Phenomenology of Wonder
Chapter Two: Metaphysics of Participation as the Ontological Grounding for Wonder
Interlude on Generosity: A Trinitarian Reflection on the Holy Spirit as “Giver of Life”
Chapter Three: Opened to the World or by the World?: Toward a Theological Anthropology of Wonder
Chapter Four: The Ethics of Wonder and Generosity: Some Initial Explorations
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
In this book, Professor José Francisco Morales Torres offers a systematic account of ‘wonder’ as a philosophical and theological theme. Here ‘wonder’ becomes a key to understanding human existence and human aspiration for transcendence. This quest for wonder is developed in dialogue with the 20th century phenomenology and the metaphysical traditions going back to the Middle Ages. This book, however, is meant to be a contribution to the contemporary study of theological anthropology. This is accomplished wonderfully in a way that makes significant contributions to the contemporary philosophical and constructive theology.
— Bo-Myung Seo, Chicago Theological Seminary
Morales Torres resists the flattening of life with his emergent “theo-thaumatic vision.” Focusing on how humans can be opened by the world, he considers salient resources and themes for a theological anthropology of wonder.
— Kristine A. Culp, University of Chicago