Desire of the Nations Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology

Name: Desire of the Nations Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology
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ISBN: 9780521665162

ISBN-10: 0521665167

ISBN-13: 9780521665162

Edition: 1999

Authors: Oliver O'Donovan

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Political theology as we know it today reacts against the attempt to insulate theology from political theory which has generally characterised the modern era. But its own intellectual parentage in the idealist historicism of the nineteenth century has left it still entrammelled in the suspicions and inhibitions from which it has wanted to break free. Oliver ODonovan contends that to pass beyond suspicion and totalised criticism of politics and to achieve a positive reconstruction of political thought, theology must reach back behind the modern tradition, achieving a fuller, less selective reading of the Scriptures and learning from an older politico-theological discourse which flourished in…

Book details

List price: $53.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/29/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.210

O'Donovan is Regius professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford.



Preface to the paperback edition


Acknowledgments


Prologue



Beyond suspicion


Ethics, politics and the practice of suspicion


Political concepts


Israel and the reading of the Scriptures



The revelation of God's kingship


'Yhwh reigns'


The mediators


'King over the whole earth'


The individual



Dual authority and the fulfilling of the time


Dual authority


The fulfilling of the time



The triumph of the Kingdom


The representative


The moments of the representative act


The subjection of the nations



The church


The authorisation of the church


Moments of recapitulation



The obedience of rulers


Christendom: the doctrine of the Two


Mission or coercion?


The legacy of Christendom



The redemption of society


The end of Christendom


Liberal society


Modernity and menace


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index of scriptural references


Index of subjects


Index of names and authors