Past and present political theology : expanding the canon
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Past and present political theology : expanding the canon
（Routledge new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studies）
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This book demonstrates how discussions of Political Theology have been a constant feature throughout philosophical modernity and that they continue to impact contemporary political debates. By tracing the historical roots and detailing the contemporary outworking of Political Theology in Europe, it contends that this growing field requires a broader "canon" in order for it to mature.
Political Theology is shown here to be about the diversity of relationships between religious beliefs and political orientations. First engaging with historical debates, chapters re-examine the relationship between personal conviction and societal orientation on such topics as the will to believe, evil, individualism, the relationship between church and state, and the relationship between belief and natural science. The volume then establishes the relevance of these debates for the present day. As such, it invites engagement on the back and forth between religion and politics in a liberal democracy and a communist state, on how communitarianism relates to religious language, on the diversity of Christian and Jewish political theology, and the politics of toleration.
By broadening out the field of Political Theology this book offers the reader a more nuanced understanding of its sustained influence on public life. As such it will be of interest to academics working in Political Theology, but also Theology, Philosophy and Political Science more generally.
Table of Contents
- Introduction-Dennis Vanden Auweele and Miklos Vassanyi
- 1 Kepler, the Supra-Confessional Lutheran-Miklos Vassanyi
- 2 The Subject's Perspective in Leibniz's Philosophy-Daniel Schmal
- 3 From a Pagan Theologia Civilis in Rome to a Fictitious Political Theology in Kant-Martin Moors
- 4 On Evil and Political Theology: Reflections on Kant and After-William Desmond
- 5 The Political Theology of Witnessing: The Canaanite Woman and Kierkegaard's Tax-Collector-Orsolya Horvath
- 6 The Politics of Religious Commitment: Pascal and Dostoevsky-Dennis Vanden Auweele and Hanna Vandenbussche
- 7 The East-West Divide in the European Union and Its Overcoming-Balazs M. Mezei
- 8 Spiritual Communism: The Career of a Theory from Saint Augustine to MacIntyre-Gabor Kendeffy
- 9 Dispositives of Political Theology: Analysing non-discursive Elements of the Josephinian Dispositive of Pastoral Power-Michael Hoelzl
- 10 Theological Motives in Hannah Arendt's Thought-Csaba Olay
- 11 A Political Theology 'of Doubtful Solidity': Leo Strauss on Rousseau via Spinoza-Gabor Boros
- 12 Religious Moral Languages, Secularity, and Hermeneutical Injustice-Gorazd Andrejc
- 13 "State-persecution" in the works of Raffaele Pettazzoni. A religious history-Valerio Severino
- 14 Christ versus the Llama Sacrifice: Rodolfo Kusch's Theological Criticism of the Colonization of Latin America-Peter Szakacs
- 15 Religious Atheism: Assessing Political Religion through Critchley's Faith of the Faithless-Dennis Vanden Auweele
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