The Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgment

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The Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgement offers a theological meditation on the human being as an accountable animal. Brendan Case introduces the idea of accountability, not merely as a structural feature of human institutions, but as a disposition to submit to rightly-constituted authority, whether divine or human. He relates this conception of accountability to the key themes of “justice, justification, and judgment”. Cover Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: “Those with Promises to Keep” The Virtue of Accountability “My Oath before God” The Road Ahead Theology’s Nature and Task, or, Some Throat-Clearing Chapter 1 “Rendering to Each His Right”: Accountability as a Sub-Type of Justice Introduction: Accountable Animals Accountability as a Sub-Type of Justice “Annexed Virtues”: Accountability, Religion, and Obedience The Problem of Recognition and the Requirement of Mutual Accountability Speech-Acts as “Normative Standings” Language as “Deontic Scorekeeping” Chapter 2 “You Judge Each According to His Ways”: Ezekiel on Human Obedience, the Killing Letter, and the Life-Giving Spirit Introduction “Correct Justice” in the Old Testament The Justice of God in Ezekiel 18 The Killing Letter in Ezekiel 20 The Life-Giving Spirit in Ezekiel 37 Legalism, Covenantal Nomism, or Non-competitive Agency? Jeremiah 31 on the Killing Letter, the Life-Giving Spirit, and Human Obedience Chapter 3 “The Doers of the Law Will Be Justified”: Resolving a Pauline Dilemma Introducing a Pauline Dilemma Quarantining Romans 2 The Law’s Works The Law’s Doers The Justification of Christ The Obedience of Faith Conclusion: Accountable Righteousness Chapter 4 Christ As Adam's Righteousness:edenic Justification as A Reason For the Incarnation Introduction: From Justification to Incarnation Grosseteste’s Supralapsarian Christology: An Overview Edenic Justification from St. Paul to St. Newman The God-Man as Justifier Of One Thing There Is Always One Cause Chapter 5 Family, Polity, Church: Corporate Persons and the Origins of Accountability Accountable Persons among the Three Necessary Societies Corporate Personhood Defined Corporate Agency, Responsibility, and Rationality Society before the Social Contract: The Polity and the Citizen Responsible Love: The Family and the Child The Sacrifice of the Whole Christ: The Church and the Baptized Conclusion: The Corporate Conditions of Human Personhood Chapter 6 Fiery Furnaces And Final Farthings:purgatory and the Problem of Postmortem accountability Purgatory: Theological and Ecumenical Problems and Prospects The Sanctification Model: Entering the Consuming Fire The Satisfaction Model: Repaying the Debt of Sin Chapter 7 On The Varieties of Infernalist Experience: Accountability in Everlasting, Annihilationist, and Purgatorial Hells Some Biblical Ambiguities Burned but Not Consumed: Accountability in the ECT Model of Hell The Unquenchable Fire: Annihilating Accountability The Refining Fire: Accountability in Purgationist Universalism Conclusion: Accountable to the End Conclusion: What's Next? Bibliography Biblical Literature Index of Names Index of Subjects