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Messianic political theology and diaspora ethics : essays in exile / P. Travis Kroeker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theopolitical visions ; 23.Publisher: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781532642746
  • 1532642741
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 261.7 23
LOC classification:
  • BT83.59
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Apocalyptic Messianism and Political Theology -- 1. Living "As If Not": Messianic Becoming or the Practice of Nihilism? -- 2. Theological Politics of Plato and Isaiah: A Debate Rejoined -- 3. Augustine's Messianic Political Theology: An Apocalyptic Critique of Political Augustinianism -- 4. Messianic Ethics and Diaspora Communities: Upbuilding the Secular Theologically from Below -- pt. 2 Political Theology and the Radical Reformation -- 5. Anabaptists and Existential Theology -- 6. Eschatology and Ethics: Luther and the Radical Reformers -- 7. Why O'Donovan's Christendom Is Not Constantinian and Yoder's Voluntariety Is Not Hobbesian: A Debate in Theological Politics Redefined -- 8. War of the Lamb: Postmodernity and Yoder's Eschatological Genealogy of Morals -- 9. Is a Messianic Political Ethic Possible? Yoder Critically Considered -- pt. 3 Messianism and Diaspora Ethics -- 10. Messianic Freedom and the Secular Academy: Educating the Affections in a Technological Culture -- 11. Gulag Ethics: Russian and Mennonite Prison Memoirs from Siberia (with Bruce Ward) -- 12. Mennonite and Metis: Adjacent Histories, Adjacent Truths? (with Carole Leclair) -- 13. Rich Mennonites in an Age of Mammon: Is a Messianic Political Economy Possible? -- 14. On the Difference between Torture and Punishment: Theology, Liturgy, and Human Rights -- 15. Technology as Principality: The Elimination of Incarnation.
Summary: "Political theology as a normative discourse has been controversial not only for secular political philosophers who are especially suspicious of messianic claims but also for Jewish and Christian thinkers who differ widely on its meaning. These essays mount an argument for a "Messianic Political Theology" rooted in an interpretation of biblical (especially Pauline), Augustinian, and Radical Reformation readings of messianism as a thoroughly political and theological vision that gives rise to what the author calls "Diaspora Ethics." In conversation also with Platonic, Jewish, and Continental thinkers, Kroeker argues for an exilic practice of political ethics in which the secular is built up theologically "from below" in the form of public service that flows from messianic political worship. Such a "weak messianic power" practiced by the messianic body inhabits an apocalyptic political economy in which the mystery of love and the mystery of evil are agonistically unveiled together in the power of the cross--not as an instrument of domination but in the form of the servant. This is not simply a matter of "pacifism" but of a messianic posture rooted in the renunciation of possessive desire that pertains to all aspects of everyday human life in the household (oikos), the academy, and the polis."-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references.

"Political theology as a normative discourse has been controversial not only for secular political philosophers who are especially suspicious of messianic claims but also for Jewish and Christian thinkers who differ widely on its meaning. These essays mount an argument for a "Messianic Political Theology" rooted in an interpretation of biblical (especially Pauline), Augustinian, and Radical Reformation readings of messianism as a thoroughly political and theological vision that gives rise to what the author calls "Diaspora Ethics." In conversation also with Platonic, Jewish, and Continental thinkers, Kroeker argues for an exilic practice of political ethics in which the secular is built up theologically "from below" in the form of public service that flows from messianic political worship. Such a "weak messianic power" practiced by the messianic body inhabits an apocalyptic political economy in which the mystery of love and the mystery of evil are agonistically unveiled together in the power of the cross--not as an instrument of domination but in the form of the servant. This is not simply a matter of "pacifism" but of a messianic posture rooted in the renunciation of possessive desire that pertains to all aspects of everyday human life in the household (oikos), the academy, and the polis."-- Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Apocalyptic Messianism and Political Theology -- 1. Living "As If Not": Messianic Becoming or the Practice of Nihilism? -- 2. Theological Politics of Plato and Isaiah: A Debate Rejoined -- 3. Augustine's Messianic Political Theology: An Apocalyptic Critique of Political Augustinianism -- 4. Messianic Ethics and Diaspora Communities: Upbuilding the Secular Theologically from Below -- pt. 2 Political Theology and the Radical Reformation -- 5. Anabaptists and Existential Theology -- 6. Eschatology and Ethics: Luther and the Radical Reformers -- 7. Why O'Donovan's Christendom Is Not Constantinian and Yoder's Voluntariety Is Not Hobbesian: A Debate in Theological Politics Redefined -- 8. War of the Lamb: Postmodernity and Yoder's Eschatological Genealogy of Morals -- 9. Is a Messianic Political Ethic Possible? Yoder Critically Considered -- pt. 3 Messianism and Diaspora Ethics -- 10. Messianic Freedom and the Secular Academy: Educating the Affections in a Technological Culture -- 11. Gulag Ethics: Russian and Mennonite Prison Memoirs from Siberia (with Bruce Ward) -- 12. Mennonite and Metis: Adjacent Histories, Adjacent Truths? (with Carole Leclair) -- 13. Rich Mennonites in an Age of Mammon: Is a Messianic Political Economy Possible? -- 14. On the Difference between Torture and Punishment: Theology, Liturgy, and Human Rights -- 15. Technology as Principality: The Elimination of Incarnation.