Remaking Humanity
Embodiment and Hope in Catholic Theology

By (author) Dr Adam Beyt,Adam Beyt

ISBN13: 9780567714770

Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 19/03/2026

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Drawing upon Edward Schillebeeckx’s theology and Judith Butler’s philosophy, Adam Beyt uses the framework of nonviolent hope to construct a Catholic political theology responding to dehumanizing violence. Dehumanizing violence names words, institutions, or acts violating the inherent dignity of being made in the image and likeness of God. Theology can participate in dehumanizing violence by claiming an uninterrogated universality that marginalizes bodies due to their perceived differences such as gender, race, sexuality, or ability. The book’s constructive project integrates Schillebeeckx’s and Butler’s thought with queer theory and phenomenology to model embodiment as an “enfleshing dynamism” between bodies and signification. The text then posits Catholic discipleship as incarnating hope by defending the humanum, the new humanity announced through God’s Reign. Combining reflections from Schillebeeckx and Butler, this hope centers discipleship as nonviolent world building. Concluding with a sustained reflection with the writings of Franz Fanon and Walter Benjamin, the final chapter sketches a Catholic solidaristic response to contemporary struggles against the necropolitics of colonizing and state violence through assemblies of hope.
Introduction Chapter One AN UNFULFILLED PROMISE: Catholic Theological Anthropology and Harmful Discipleship Chapter Two THE INCARNATED SELF: Finitude, Embodied Experience, and Mediated Immediacy Chapter Three THE BODY AS AN ENFLESHED DYNAMISM: Schillebeeckx’s Sacramental Theology and the Chiasm of Merleau-Ponty Chapter Four ANTHROPOLOGICAL APOPHASIS: Butler and the Philosophy of the "Human" Chapter Five INCARNATING HOPE: Schillebeeckx’s Mystical-Political Discipleship Chapter Six BUTLER AND NONVIOLENT HOPE Chapter Seven THE FORCE OF HOPE: Freedom from Necropolitics Conclusion Bibliography Index
  • Christianity
  • Christian theology
  • Theology
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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