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Author: Nadia Marais
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.585kg
ISBN: 9781666767094
ISBN 10: 1666767093
Pages: 438
Publication Date: 09 October 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""This book is an invitation. It invites readers to the ongoing human conversation about happiness and flourishing. Taking the form of a survey of nine well-known such discourses, it asks why we speak in these ways. It discerns three logics behind ways of imagining flourishing--faith, love, hope--yet even together they offer no final word, but merely invite readers to join this ongoing conversation about meaningful and more humane life. Is anything more important?"" --Dirk Smit, professor of Reformed theology and public life, Princeton Theological Seminary ""In a time when we have good reasons not to be happy with many of the discourses on happiness, Nadia Marais's book displays a theologically sophisticated cartography to evaluate and cultivate our grammars of salvation. Through interaction with various terroirs, this in-depth study produces a well-blended proposal to speak of human flourishing in line with the good news of the gospel. Homo Florens? promises to bear rich fruit and bring readers much insight, inspiration, and joy."" --Robert Vosloo, professor in systematic theology, Stellenbosch University ""Theologically rigorous, with extensive footnotes that reveal the scholarship that lies beneath the accessible prose, this book brilliantly weaves together the work of well-known theologians from across the globe to offer rich insights on happiness and flourishing, imbedded in Christian discourses on salvation. In this significant contribution to the Christian soteriological discussion, Nadia Marais shows why she is considered one of the most exciting voices to emerge in South African theology in recent years."" --Rachel Sophia Baard, assistant professor of theology and ethics, Union Presbyterian Seminary"
Author Information
Nadia Marais is senior lecturer of systematic theology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She co-edited Reconceiving Reproductive Health? (2020) and Sexual Reformation? (2022) and has published various essays and articles on questions related to human and ecological flourishing. Marais is ordained in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa and is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar.
