T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology

by Philips, Elizabeth; Rowlands, Anna; Daughton, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780567666970
• ISBN10: 0567666972
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-06-29
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology brings together some of the most important, up-to-date scholarly texts published on this subject. Edited by accomplished scholars this single-volume reader fills the gap in the existing literature.

Including readings from Augustine, Aquinas, Schmitt, Moltmann, Martin Luther, John Howard Yoder, Niebuhr and Hauerwas, this reader analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts and figures from the field of political theology. These texts are grouped by topic to allow students to have a clear understanding of the development of political theology.

The volume presents a range of pedagogical features - introductions, suggestions for further readings, discussion questions - that allow students to read, interpret and critically engage with the major issues in political theology.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Phillips is Tutor in Theology and Ethics at Westcott House and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK.

Anna Rowlands is Lecturer in Catholic Studies at Durham University, UK.

Amy Daughton earned her doctorate at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She is Director of Studies at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I. The Emergence of Political Theology
Introduction
1 Samuel 8; Luke 1.68-79; Matthew 25.31-46; Luke 23.33-43 Augustine, City of God (excerpts)
Gregory of Nyssa, 'First Homily on the Love of the Poor'
John Chrysostom, 'First Homily on Lazarus and the Rich Man'
Aquinas, Summa Theologiae and De regno (excerpts)
II. Approaches to Political Theology
Introduction
Carl Schmitt, 'Definition of Sovereignty'
Jürgen Moltmann 'Covenant or Leviathan?'
Johannes Baptist Metz, 'Theology in the New Paradigm'
Dorothy Soelle, The Window of Vulnerability (excerpts)
Elaine Graham, 'Lost in Translation? The Dilemmas of Public Theology'
Excerpts from Dialogue between Jürgen Habermas and Critics
III. The Church and the Political
Introduction
Martin Luther, Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
John Calvin, Of Civil Government
John Neville Figgis, 'Lecture Three: The Civic Standpoint'
William Temple, 'Christian Social Principles: (A) Primary' Excerpts from Correspondence between Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dorothy Day, 'We Go On Record'
IV. The Politics of Jesus
Introduction
The Schleitheim Confession
John Howard Yoder, 'Are You the One Who is to Come?'
Reinhold Niebuhr, 'The Ethic of Jesus and the Social Problem'
James Cone, 'Strange Fruit'
V. Violence and Peace
Introduction
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho (excerpts)
Tertullian, On the Crown
Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of Clergy (excerpts)
Martin Luther, On Secular Authority
William T. Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence (excerpts)
Paul Evdokimov, 'Church and Society'
VI. Liberalism and Democracy
Introduction
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (excerpts)
Edmund Burke, 'Part II: The French Revolution'
Stanley Hauerwas, 'The Church and Liberal Democracy'
John Milbank, 'Liberality versus Liberalism'
Eric Gregory, Politics and the Order of Love (excerpts)
Christopher Insole, 'Theology and Politics: The Intellectual History of Liberalism'
VII. Oppression, Marginalization and Liberation
Introduction
Martin Luther King, Jr., 'A Time to Break the Silence'
Vincent Lloyd, 'Paradox and Tradition in Black Theology'
Rosemary Radford Reuther, Sexism and Godtalk (excerpts)
John Sobrino, No Salvation Outside the Poor (excerpts)
Marcella Althaus-Reid, 'Graffitti on the Walls of the Cathedral of Buenos Aires'
Musa W. Dube, 'Postcoloniality, Feminist Spaces and Religion'
Rerum Novarum
VIII. Creation, History and Eschatology
Introduction
Nathan Kerr, Christ, History and Apocalyptic (excerpts)
Charles Mathewes, A Theology of Public Life (excerpts)
Oliver O'Donovan, 'Political Thought of City of God 19'
Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times (excerpts)
Suggestions for Further Reading
Discussion Questions