…Ingeborg Gabriel and Effie Fokas) with a wide range of theological approaches that cover the contemporary panorama of Orthodox Christian approaches to politics. The authors in the book present their…
…democracy were downplayed in the U.S. by a cognitive separation between aesthetics and politics. Although recent books such as Gabriel Rockhill’s Radical History and the Politics of Art have argued…
…so overt—after all, it’s still fashionable in American politics to be a churchgoer and to claim to be personally pious. But to actually live out commitment to Christ, acknowledging his…
…redemption. The work of politics is constantly framed by visions of the possible and the impossible. For instance, Slavoj Zizek has observed that, for most people, it is now easier…
…God, “one day is like a thousand years” and, for the politician too, a day can be a long time in politics. Our reading ends by suggesting that we “regard…
…distance between John and royalty. Some commentators have read this as Jesus praising John’s simple lifestyle and separation from earthly politics. Not only did they have radically opposed wardrobes, John…
From its inception as a modern field of study, political theology has been concerned with the secular. Carl Schmitt described the persistence of theology in secular politics, and he diagnosed…
…analysis. This power of sin over the individual can lead directly to a politics of individualized purity: “If only our leaders were better than others at overcoming their propensity for…
…the sort of connection we may suppose exists between the ownership and the use of property. The principles of economic justice it implies can guide us in our contemporary politics….
…life. He is favoured by his father for providing game and practical help. In today’s politics, Esau might represent the working class who work in unskilled jobs in the field…
…can become whatever he needs to, all for the sake of the gospel. This same sort of thinking can be found anywhere in American politics, on the left and on…
…odd to modern Western ears, accustomed as we are to a divide between reason and affections. However, such a love that overflows in knowledge could transform much of our politics….