TY - BOOK AU - Heron,Nicholas TI - Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology T2 - Commonalities SN - 9780823278688 AV - BR115.P7 H468 2018 U1 - 261.7 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - Christianity and politics KW - Church and state KW - Political theology KW - Philosophy & Theory KW - Political Science KW - Religion KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - bisacsh KW - Carl Schmitt KW - Christianity KW - Giorgio Agamben KW - Political Theology KW - governmentality KW - hierarchy KW - liturgy KW - politics KW - power KW - secularization N1 - Frontmatter --; contents --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. THE ECONOMIC GOD --; 2. LITURGICAL POWER --; 3. THE PRACTICE OF HIERARCHY --; 4. INSTRUMENTAL CAUSE --; 5. ANTHROPOLOGY OF OFFICE --; CONCLUSION --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Is Christianity exclusively a religious phenomenon, which must separate itself from all things political, or do its concepts actually underpin secular politics? To this question, which animated the twentieth-century debate on political theology, Liturgical Power advances a third alternative. Christian anti-politics, Heron contends, entails its own distinct conception of politics. Yet this politics, he argues, assumes the form of what today we call "administration," but which the ancients termed "economics." The book's principal aim is thus genealogical: it seeks to understand our current conception of government in light of an important but rarely acknowledged transformation in the idea of politics brought about by Christianity.This transformation in the idea of politics precipitates in turn a concurrent shift in the organization of power; an organization whose determining principle, Heron contends, is liturgy-understood in the broad sense as "public service." Whereas until now only liturgy's acclamatory dimension has made the concept available for political theory, Heron positions it more broadly as a technique of governance. What Christianity has bequeathed to political thought and forms, he argues, is thus a paradoxical technology of power that is grounded uniquely in service UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823278718?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823278718 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823278718/original ER -