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Graced Human Bodies and the Enterprising Subject: Contending Neoliberal Assumptions of the Human Person

Graced Human Bodies and the Enterprising Subject: Contending Neoliberal Assumptions of the Human... The particular vision of human, bodily life that has been adopted and developed in the neoliberal era since the 1970s is turning humans into a new kind of creature. Both our behavioral and conceptual notions of what it means to be human have been re-oriented to a vision of the “enterprising self,” the social and political actor who negotiates the world through competition, self-regulation, and rational choice. The concern of this paper is to demonstrate how this framework is theologically unsound and has a destabilizing effect on what constitutes human nature as a particular embodied existence. Attending to the rationale and theological response to the neoliberal logics, this paper seeks to promote a vision of human life and activity that is ordered and oriented to human flourishing and provide examples of resistance to the person-forming capacity of neoliberal social formations. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Graced Human Bodies and the Enterprising Subject: Contending Neoliberal Assumptions of the Human Person

Shakespeare, Lyndon
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 105 (2): 18 – May 1, 2023
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SAGE
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0003-3286
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10.1177/00033286231166639
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Abstract

The particular vision of human, bodily life that has been adopted and developed in the neoliberal era since the 1970s is turning humans into a new kind of creature. Both our behavioral and conceptual notions of what it means to be human have been re-oriented to a vision of the “enterprising self,” the social and political actor who negotiates the world through competition, self-regulation, and rational choice. The concern of this paper is to demonstrate how this framework is theologically unsound and has a destabilizing effect on what constitutes human nature as a particular embodied existence. Attending to the rationale and theological response to the neoliberal logics, this paper seeks to promote a vision of human life and activity that is ordered and oriented to human flourishing and provide examples of resistance to the person-forming capacity of neoliberal social formations.

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Anglican Theological Review – SAGE

Published: May 1, 2023

Keywords: economics; embodiment; Enterprising Subject; neoliberialism; theological anthropology

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