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The problem with grace : reconfiguring political theology / Vincent W. Lloyd.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780804777551
  • 0804777551
  • 0804768838
  • 9780804768832
  • 0804768846
  • 9780804768849
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Problem with grace.DDC classification:
  • 261.7 22
LOC classification:
  • BT83.59 .L56 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction : beyond supersessionism -- Theopolitical virtues. Love -- Faith -- Hope. Theopolitical strategies. Tradition -- Liturgy -- Sanctity -- Revelation -- Prophecy -- Conclusion : politics of the middle -- Appendix : political theology as a rigorous science.
Summary: This book develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology, taking that burgeoning field in a new direction. With his bold suggestion that political philosophy must begin with political theology, Vincent Lloyd investigates a series of religious concepts such as love, faith, liturgy, and revelation and explores their political relevance by extracting them from their Christian theological context while refusing to reduce them to secular terms. He assembles an unusual canon of thinkers "too Jewish to be Christian and too Christian to be Jewish"--Simone Weil, James Baldwin, Franz Kafka, a
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)364820

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and index.

Introduction : beyond supersessionism -- Theopolitical virtues. Love -- Faith -- Hope. Theopolitical strategies. Tradition -- Liturgy -- Sanctity -- Revelation -- Prophecy -- Conclusion : politics of the middle -- Appendix : political theology as a rigorous science.

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This book develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology, taking that burgeoning field in a new direction. With his bold suggestion that political philosophy must begin with political theology, Vincent Lloyd investigates a series of religious concepts such as love, faith, liturgy, and revelation and explores their political relevance by extracting them from their Christian theological context while refusing to reduce them to secular terms. He assembles an unusual canon of thinkers "too Jewish to be Christian and too Christian to be Jewish"--Simone Weil, James Baldwin, Franz Kafka, a

English.