Mortality, Ontology and Ethics in Twentieth-Century Theologies of Person : The Rule of Death

historical existence and divine transcendence. Trew highlights how this is crucial for a redescription of what individual death might mean in the context of the church as 'communion'. In doing so, he constructively recasts Heidegger's best insights about anticipating death with Bohoeffer and Yannaras. Ultimately, Trew powerfully argues for the Christological conversion of human creaturely passivity into recapitulative activity wherein human beings, by their 'daily dying' take up death's power and transfigure it into new life. Death becomes entangled within a distinctively and irreducibly relational vision of the human being. [Publisher's text]