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Contributors

viii

Acknowledgements

ix

General Introduction

1

(20)

PART ONE: THE DIVISION OF CHRIST'S POLITICAL BODY

Prologue to Part One

21

(56)

1 Augustine (354-430)

25

(12)

Introduction

25

(4)

Excerpt from City of God

29

(8)

2 Thomas Aquinas (1225/7-74)

37

(12)

Introduction

37

(4)

Excerpt from De regimine (De regno)

41

(8)

3 Alighieri Dante (1265-1321)

49

(15)

Introduction

49

(4)

Excerpt from De monarchia

53

(11)

4 Martin Luther (1483-1546)

64

(13)

Introduction

64

(4)

Excerpts from 'Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation', and 'On the Limits of Secular Authority'

68

(9)

PART TWO: THE LEGITIMATION OF SOVEREIGN POWER

Prologue to Part Two

77

(42)

5 Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)

81

(8)

Introduction

81

(3)

Excerpt from Discourses on Livy

84

(5)

6 King James VI/I (1566-1625)

89

(13)

Introduction

89

(4)

Excerpt from The True Law of Free Monarchies

93

(9)

7 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1674)

102

(17)

Introduction

102

(5)

Excerpt from Leviathan

107

(12)

PART THREE: RELIGION IN DEMOCRATIC CULTURE

Prologue to Part Three

119

(30)

8 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78)

123

(14)

Introduction

123

(4)

Excerpt from Social Contract

127

(10)

9 Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

137

(12)

Introduction

137

(4)

Excerpt from Common Sense

141

(8)

10 Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59)

149

(12)

Introduction

149

(4)

Excerpt from Democracy in America

153

(8)

11 Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)

161

(12)

Introduction

161

(4)

Excerpt from Considerations on France

165

(8)

PART FOUR: POLITICS AFTER RELIGION

Prologue to Part Four

173

(4)

12 Karl Marx (1818-83)

177

(13)

Introduction

177

(4)

Excerpt from the Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'

181

(9)

13 Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)

190

(13)

Introduction

190

(4)

Excerpt from Political Theology

194

(9)

14 Vladimir I. Lenin (1870-1924) and Simone Weil (1909-43)

203

(16)

Introduction

203

(4)

'Socialism and Religion' by Lenin

207

(3)

Excerpt from The Need for Roots by Weil

210

(9)

PART FIVE: THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATES

Prologue to Part Five

219

(6)

15 John Milbank

Liberality versus Liberalism

225

(12)

16 Slavoj Žižek

Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief

237

(6)

17 Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid

Graffiti on the Walls of the Cathedral of Buenos Aires: Doing Theology, Love and Politics at the Margins

243

(16)

18 Charles Taylor

The Moral Order: The Transition to Political Modernity

259

(9)

19 Jürgen Manemann

The Depoliticization of God as a Challenge for Political Theology

268

(14)

Primary Sources

282

(1)

Index of Names

283

(3)

Index of Subjects

286

(6)

Index of Scriptural References

292

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