Empire and the Christian Tradition

by Pui-Lan, Kwok

• ISBN13: 9780800662158
• ISBN10: 0800662156
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

The radically altered situation today in religion, politics, and global communication-what can broadly be characterized as postmodern and postcolonial-necessitates close rereading of Christianity's classical sources, especially its theologians. In this groundbreaking textbook anthology, twenty-nine distinguished scholars scrutinize the relationship between empire and Christianity from Paul to the liberation theologians of our time. The contributors discuss how the classical theologians in different historical periods dealt with their own contexts of empire and issues such as center and margin, divine power and social domination, war and violence, gender hierarchy, and displacement and diaspora. Each chapter provides insights and resources drawn from the classical theological tradition to address the current political situation. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introductory Perspectives
Christian Theology and Empires	p. 1
Theology and Social Theory	p. 15
The Christian Tradition and Empires: A Reader's Guide	p. 31
Theological Figures
Paul and Early Christianity	p. 47
Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 300 - 373)	p. 63
Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430)	p. 79
Wynfrith-Boniface (675 - 754)	p. 95
Theodore the Studite (759 - 826)	p. 111
Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)	p. 123
Mechthild of Magdeburg (1208 - 1282?)	p. 139
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)	p. 153
Julian of Norwich (1342- c.1416)	p. 167
Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)	p. 185
Bartolome de Las Casas (1484 - 1566)	p. 201
Jean Calvin (1509- 1564)	p. 215
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651 - 1695)	p. 229
Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)	p. 243
John Wesley (1703 - 1791)	p. 257
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834)	p. 271
G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831)	p. 283
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)	p. 295
Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895)	p. 309
William Temple (1881 - 1944)	p. 323
Karl Barth (1886 - 1968)	p. 337
Hendrik Kraemer (1888 - 1965)	p. 353
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)	p. 371
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)	p. 389
Simone Weil (1909-1943)	p. 405
M. M. Thomas (1916-1996)	p. 423
Juan Luis Segundo (1925 - 1996)	p. 439
John S. Mbiti (1931 -)	p. 455
Mercy Amba Oduyoye (1934 -)	p. 471
Notes	p. 487
Index	p. 549
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