Remaking Humanity

Adam Beyt’s Remaking Humanity expresses the ontological vulnerability of embodied existence in a sacramental mode. This is both a provocative and constructive proposal for a theology that takes the experience of having and being a body seriously—including all of the dynamism, instability, and vulnerability that this entails. With the work of Edward Schillebeeckx as a starting point, Beyt builds from thinkers like Bulter, Merleau-Ponty, and Mbembe in pursuit of a mystical political practice involving the whole person. This book is a Thomistically grounded work of political theology that is steeped in the sacramental imagination, allowing it to run through doors pushed open by Schillebeeckx and earlier generations of scholars. Beyt imagines ‘incarnating hope’ in a way that expands the borders of the Rule of God beyond polarized binaries, exclusions, and inherited structures of violence. * Daniel Minch, University of Münster, Germany * Beyt’s Remaking Humanity prompts a serious rethinking of any Catholic theological anthropology by juxtaposing a violence latent at the heart of a ‘theology of the body’ with a phenomenology of embodiment that strives to recognize the politics of marginalization always at work in theological discourses. By reading the Incarnation with Judith Butler and locating ‘assemblies of hope’ with Fanon and Mbembe, Beyt presents us with a nothing less than a detailed roadmap for an experience of grace that resonates deeply with the complex and multifaceted bodies that we actually inhabit in our everyday lives. * Colby Dickinson, Loyola University, USA *