Religion, Politics, And the Christian Right

by Taylor, Mark Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780800637835
• ISBN10: 0800637836
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-28
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

"Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right not only probes the ambiguities of religion in the public sphere; it also offers a genuine vision of how committed and responsible Americans - religious or not - can once again engage America's best prophetic spirit."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Mark Lewis Taylor is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Faith, American Empire, and Spirit	1	(1)
Under the Star of Empire---Post-9/11 America's Imperial Regime	2	(7)
A Tradition of Prophetic Spirit	9	(4)
Specters of Empire	13	(1)
Plan of the Book	14	(3)
Evil in Public Life Today	17	(18)
A Dominant Rhetoric of Evil	17	(2)
The ``Just War against Terror'' Scholars	19	(4)
On Understanding Terrorism as Evil	23	(5)
Evil as Distortion of the Good	28	(7)
The 9/11 Moment	35	(12)
The Historic Moment	37	(2)
The Mythic Moment	39	(3)
Mythic Restoration and Two Streams of American Nationalism	42	(5)
The Specter of American Romanticism	47	(24)
``Belonging Being'' and American Romanticism	48	(4)
Romanticism and the 9/11 Moment	52	(1)
The Christian Right as Religious Revolutionary Romanticists	53	(9)
The Neoconservatives as Secular Revolutionary Romanticists	62	(4)
A Deadly Alliance?	66	(5)
The Specter of Contractual Liberalism	71	(25)
``Expectant Being'' and Contractual Liberalism	72	(8)
Contractual Liberalism and the 9/11 Moment	80	(3)
Today's Anti-Liberal Modernism	83	(13)
The Specter of Prophetic Spirit	96	(14)
Prophetic Spirit as Broadening and Deepening Being	97	(5)
Prophetic Spirit after 9/11	102	(2)
The Prophetic as ``Spirit''	104	(6)
Revolutionary Belonging	110	(14)
Revolutionary Subject	112	(3)
Revolutionary Tradition	115	(3)
Revolutionary Mythic Language	118	(2)
Conclusion: Prophetic Spirit, the Specter of the Hydra	120	(4)
Revolutionary Expectation	124	(32)
Toward a Radical Liberalism	125	(2)
Radical Liberalism and ``Liberalism''	127	(2)
Agents of Revolutionary Expectation	129	(12)
Genres of Revolutionary Expectation	141	(6)
Practices of Revolutionary Expectation	147	(9)
Epilogue: Christian Faith and Counterimperial Practice	156	(8)
Gospel	158	(2)
Reconciliatory Emancipation	160	(4)
Notes	164	(23)
Index	187