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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Political theology."”.
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Political theology and the conflicts of democracy.
… politics. Centering on the relationship between political community and difference, it develops an "agonistic political theology" of radical democracy grounded in the claim that conflict is inherent to the goodness of creation and constitutive of flourishing creaturely sociality. It argues that, …
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Eric Voegelin's thought and its significance for political theology
… (1901-85) held that at the heart of an adequate political philosophy must be a philosophy of consciousness. This study discusses Voegelin's thought in its significance for "political theology", by which is understood that mode of theological thinking which focuses on the relationship of Christian …
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Beware of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics and Literature
<p>Using the discourse of Political Theology as a mode of enquiry we can overcome a longstanding tension between aesthetics and history that characterized much of twentieth century thought. Focusing on literary and occasionally musical works from the mid twentieth century, my aim is to show how …
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Relativism in Democracy. Response to a new form of political theology
… identifies and discusses a new form of political theology. The starting observation is that over the past few decades, the position of organized Christianity with respect to democracy has changed. Traditionally, the notion of political theology referred to a doctrine of sovereignty which …
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The Trial of Reason: Political theology as the investigation of judgement
… is an inquiry into the relationship between political theology and the philosophical effort to establish a secular and autonomous order in which individuals govern themselves through universal laws. I argue that this project fails and explore how political theologies arise in its wake. In …
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Caring for Our Common Home: 'Écologie Intégrale' as Political Theology among French Catholics
… ‘integral ecology’, a new paradigm of Catholic political theology, through an ethnography of Les Alternatives Catholiques, a prominent Lyon-based association of lay Catholic intellectuals. A cornerstone of Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, the term …
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Rebel angels: political theology and the fall of the angels tradition in old English literature
“Rebel Angels: Political Theology and the Fall of the Angels Tradition in Old English Literature” argues that the story of the fall of the rebel angels provided Anglo-Saxon authors with a rich discursive field in which to ground earthly business – political power, legal order, communal identity, …
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Questions of Faith: Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial India, 1813-1907
… examines the heated debates about the political valences of religious conversion in colonial India and explains how religious conversion, especially to Protestant Christianity, emerged as the most spectacular locus of public debate, social reform and anti-colonial resistance in colonial …
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The Renunciation of God: Political Theology and Theological Resistance in Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil
Theorists of political theology and secularization have extensively analyzed interwar European texts describing modern Western politics—and specifically the crisis of fascism—as shaped by theological signs like sovereignty, glory, salvation, and the mystical body. What has received significantly …
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Classical Trinitarian Theology and the Idolatry of Nationalism: The Doctrine of the Trinity as a Critique of Political Theology
… the doctrine of the Trinity, in the field of political theology today, should be taken as a critique of the idolatry of nationalism and should point us toward a new theological politics that is informed by the proper worship of the triune God, especially in the Church’s sacred liturgy. …
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The politics of the crucified: a study of the political theology of John Howard Yoder, Leonardo Boff and Jon Sobrino with special reference to the crucifixion
… What difference does this make to Christian political theology? What is the revelatory value of Jesus’ death with regard to political theology? This thesis explores these questions, using a Christocentric methodology and taking three theologians in particular as interlocutors -– the Mennonite …
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Political Theology and the Levellers: A discussion of the theological sources of the political thought of the Levellers and of some implications for modern understandings of political liberalism
The thesis establishes that the political liberty proposed by the Levellers during the English Civil Wars of the 1640s was derived from a theological doctrine of Christian liberty, rooted in Christology and Ecclesiology, and informed by various legal and philosophical traditions. The work is …
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The Twofold Reign of Christ: A Baptist Approach to Two Kingdoms Theology
… thesis argued in this dissertation is a Baptist political theology can and should maintain Christ’s twofold kingship and entails: (1) a maximalist form of church governance as regenerate membership and congregationalism in keeping with new covenant positive laws are ordered to their …
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C. Schmitto politinė filosofija: „Politische Romantik“ svarba /
… contemporary neglect of Schmitt‘s early work „Political Romanticism“ (1919) is an erroneous position adopted by the majority of contemporary scholars. Without paying enough attention to the study of political romanticism, we can not understand the systematic nature of Schmitt‘s researches …
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The political philosophy of C. Schmitt: the importance of „Politische Romantik /
… contemporary neglect of Schmitt‘s early work „Political Romanticism“ (1919) is an erroneous position adopted by the majority of contemporary scholars. Without paying enough attention to the study of political romanticism, we can not understand the systematic nature of Schmitt‘s researches …
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Economic Theology and the Death of God in the Context of the Crisis of Neoliberalism
<p>In light of the ongoing political and economic crises in the twenty-first century, this study aims to apply the discourse of political theology, alongside Nietzsche’s concept of the death of God to an understanding of neoliberalism and the problems it faces on a global level. However, because of …
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Presbyterianism and social change in urban China
… these Chinese Presbyterians articulate a strong political theology that blends the Anabaptist and the reformed theologies. In addition, the institutional and the missional tension of this movement is also under examination. In the end, this project is an experiment that tests the commensurability …
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Surviving Modernity: Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi (1863-1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India
… mystical experience, communal identity, and political theology. His collected letters, recorded conversations, and sermons were published within his lifetime and continue to instruct many contemporary South Asian Muslims. I closely read Thanvi's texts and situate them within two frameworks: …
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SUBSTANTIAM REI MUTARE. FISICA ARISTOTELICA ED AZIONE MIRACOLOSA NELLA FONDAMENTAZIONE DUECENTESCA DELLA PLENITUDO POTESTATIS
… of power) by utilising the tools provided by political theology and adopting a legal-ontological perspective. Following this path, after an introduction that outlines some concepts employed in the research, the first topic examined is the medieval reception of Aristotle's physical texts, …
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The fascist Jesus : Ernest Renan's Vie de Jesus and the theological origins of fascism.
… Jesus” contributed to the formation of Fascist political theology. It is a study of why and how the “Academic Jesus” of scientifically trained scholars became the “Fascist Jesus” of politicians like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Through a detailed examination of Renan’s Vie and his other …
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