Theology Political Theory And Pluralism

Author : Kristen Deede Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139461153

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Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism by Kristen Deede Johnson Pdf

How can we live together in the midst of our differences? This is one of the most pressing questions of our time. Tolerance has been the bedrock of political liberalism, while proponents of agonistic political thought and radical democracy have sought an answer that allows a deeper celebration of difference. Kristen Deede Johnson describes the move from tolerance to difference, and the accompanying move from epistemology to ontology, within political theory. Building on this 'ontological turn', in search of a theological answer to the question, she puts Augustine into conversation with recent political theorists and theologians. This theological option enables the Church to envision a way to engage with contemporary political society without losing its own embodied story and practices. It contributes to our broader political imagination by offering a picture of rich engagement between the many different particularities that constitute a pluralist society.

Author : Kristen Deede Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 0511278993

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Theology, Political Theory and Pluralism: Beyond Tolerance and Difference. Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine. by Kristen Deede Johnson Pdf

Tolerance has been the bedrock of political liberalism, while proponents of agonistic political and radical democracy have sought an answer that allows a deeper celebration of difference. Kristen Deede Johnson describes the move from tolerance to difference and the accompanying move from epistemology to ontology, within recent political theory. Building on this "ontological turn," in search of a theological answer to the question, she puts Augustine into conversation with recent political theorists and theologians. This theological option enables the Church to envision a way to engage with contemporary political society without losing its own embodied story and practices.

Author : Joseph Rivera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319771465

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Political Theology and Pluralism by Joseph Rivera Pdf

Reviving the ancient political wisdom of St. Augustine in combination with insights drawn from contemporary political theorist John Rawls, Joseph Rivera grapples with the polarizing nature of religion in the public square. Political theology, as a discipline, tends to argue that communitarianism remains the only viable political option for religious practitioners in a complex, pluralist society. Unsurprisingly, we are increasingly accustomed to think the religious voice is anti-secular and illiberal. On the contrary, Christian theology and political liberalism, Rivera argues, are not incompatible. Political Theology and Pluralism challenges the longstanding antithesis between theology and political liberalism by asking his readers to focus not on difference, but on our common humanity. Outlining real strategies for public dialogue in a liberal state, Rivera offers the opportunity to discover what it means to practice civic friendship in pluralist context.

Author : Camil Ungureanu,Paolo Monti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351391740

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Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion by Camil Ungureanu,Paolo Monti Pdf

What is the place of religion in a pluralist democracy? The continuous presence of religion in the public sphere has raised anew normative and practical issues related to the role of religion in a democratic polity, generating spirited political debates in Western and non-Western contexts. Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion provides an advanced introduction to, and a critical appraisal of, the major schools of political thought with a focus on the relationship between democracy and religion. Key features of this book include: Analyses of different political traditions: liberalism, republicanism, deliberative democracy, feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism, and interculturalism; Critical discussions of key contemporary philosophers, such as John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Susan Moller Okin, Martha Nussbaum, Will Kymlicka, Chandran Kukathas, and Bhiku Parekh; A pluralist approach that questions the strict divide between analytical and continental political philosophy; Discussion on the place of religion in politics from multiple perspectives by drawing on a plurality of political contexts, both Western and non-Western; Analyses of legal and political cases related to different religious traditions, for example, Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism. This comprehensive text will be of great use to students of religion and politics in the fields of political and legal theory, and religious and theological studies, while also offering critical insights and arguments that will be of interest to the experts in the field.

Author : Michael Jon Kessler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199911264

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Political Theology for a Plural Age by Michael Jon Kessler Pdf

New challenges that emerged in the postwar era have given rise to ongoing debate about the place of religion in public life, in the United States and in other established democracies, and this debate has dramatically reshaped the way scholars, policymakers, and religious leaders think about political theology. Political Theology for a Plural Age examines historic and contemporary understandings of political engagement in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, engaging political theologies not merely as a set of theoretical concepts but as religious beliefs and principles that motivate specific political action. The essays in this volume, written by leading thinkers and practitioners within each tradition and their secular counterparts, examine a number of core issues at the intersection of religion and politics. They contest the definition of political theology, establish a common discourse across the three Abrahamic traditions, and closely examine how globalization, secularization, and pluralism affect the construction and plausibility of political theologies. Finally, they offer insight into how political theologies might adapt to the shared global challenges of the twenty-first century.

Author : Péter Losonczi,Aakash Singh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441171511

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From Political Theory to Political Theology by Péter Losonczi,Aakash Singh Pdf

During the last two decades we have witnessed what José Casanova has characterised as "religion going public". This has not been a trend exclusive to traditionally religious nations. Rather, it has been visible in as diverse environments as that of the construction of the new Russian political identity or in the "post-9/11" political discourses of the USA. Surprisingly, important religious manifestations also influenced the political discourses in Britain and, more recently, in France. Partly as a consequence of these phenomena an intensive debate is now evolving about the compatibility of the neutrality of liberal democracy in relation to religiously motivated opinions in public discourses, and the conditions under which such religiously driven contributions could viably "go public". This book offers a collection of essays on Religion and Democracy which critically discusses the most important questions that characterize these debates at the points of their intersection within political theory, political theology and the philosophy of religion, and considers both the challenges and the prospects of this new era which, following Habermas, one may call post-secular.

Author : Thaddeus J. Kozinski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739141700

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The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism by Thaddeus J. Kozinski Pdf

In contemporary political philosophy, there is much debate over how to maintain a public order in pluralistic democracies in which citizens hold radically different religious views. The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism deals with this theoretically and practically difficult issue by examining three of the most influential figures of religious pluralism theory: John Rawls, Jacques Maritain, and Alasdair MacIntyre. Drawing on a diverse number of sources, Kozinski addresses the flaws in each philosopher's views and shows that the only philosophically defensible end of any overlapping consensus political order must be the eradication of the ideological pluralism that makes it necessary. In other words, a pluralistic society should have as its primary political aim to create the political conditions for the communal discovery and political establishment of that unifying tradition within which political justice can most effectively be obtained. Kozinski's analysis, though exhaustive and rigorous, still remains accessible and engaging, even for a reader unversed in the works of Rawls, Maritain, and MacIntyre. Interdisciplinary and multi-thematic in nature, it will appeal to anyone interested in the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.

Author : Mariano Croce,Andrea Salvatore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009059602

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Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory by Mariano Croce,Andrea Salvatore Pdf

In 1922, Carl Schmitt penned Political Theology, the celebrated essay in which he elaborated on the notorious theory that the heart of politics lies in the sovereign power to issue emergency measures that suspend the legal order. Ever since, Schmitt's thinking has largely been identified with this concept, despite him renouncing it over time. Offering a comprehensive analysis of Schmitt's writings, Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory provides an ambitious, novel perspective on Carl Schmitt and his legal and political thinking. By delving into Schmitt's output over his decades-long career, Mariano Croce and Andrea Salvatore explore Schmitt's varied and developing thoughts on exceptionalism, societal pluralism and the law as the progenitor and enforcer of normality. Challenging dominant interpretations, Croce and Salvatore dethrone the false centrality of certain key texts, and instead provide a more unified, coherent account of his institutional theory from across his long and controversial career.

Author : Raymond Plant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521433207

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Politics, Theology and History by Raymond Plant Pdf

This major new book by a prominent academic and an active politician ranges widely across the disciplines of theology, political theory and philosophy. Lord Plant focuses on the role of religious belief in argument about public policy in a pluralistic society. He examines the political implications of Christian belief and its application in political debate. The book discusses the place of religious belief in the formation of policy and asks what issues in modern society might be the legitimate objects of a Christian social and political concern.

Author : Vassilios Paipais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Intellectual life
ISBN : 3030376036

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Theology and World Politics by Vassilios Paipais Pdf

Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology. Contributions to this collection highlight the political theological foundations of international theory and world politics, recasting theology and politics as symbiotic discourses with all the risks, promises and open questions this relation may involve. The overarching claim the book makes is that all politics has theology embedded in it, both in the genealogical sense of carrying ineradicable traces of rival theological traditions, and also in the more ontological sense of being enacted by alternative configurations of the theologico-political. The book is unique in bringing together a diverse group of scholars, spanning knowledge areas as varied as IR, political theory, philosophy, theology, and history to investigate the complex interconnections between theology and world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, international relations, intellectual history, and political theology. Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: Voiding a Pluralist World (2017).

Author : Vassilios Paipais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political science
ISBN : 1349848646

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Political Ontology and International Political Thought by Vassilios Paipais Pdf

Author : Charles Davis
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1980-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521225388

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Theology and Political Society by Charles Davis Pdf

Author : Ferran Requejo,Camil Ungureanu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317637271

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Democracy, Law and Religious Pluralism in Europe by Ferran Requejo,Camil Ungureanu Pdf

In contrast with the progressive dilution of religions predicted by traditional liberal and Marxist approaches, religions remain important for many people, even in Europe, the most secularised continent. In the context of increasingly culturally diverse societies, this calls for a reinterpretation of the secular legacy of the Enlightenment and also for an updating of democratic institutions. This book focuses on a central question: are the classical secularist arrangements well equipped to tackle the challenge of fast-growing religious pluralism? Or should we move to new post-secular arrangements when dealing with pluralism in Europe? Offering an interdisciplinary approach that combines political theory and legal analysis, the authors tackle two interrelated facets of this controversial question. They begin by exploring the theoretical perspective, asking what post-secularism is and looking at its relation to secularism. The practical consequences of this debate are then examined, focusing on case-law through four empirical case studies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, philosophy, religion and politics, European law, human rights, legal theory and socio-legal studies.

Author : Robert Song
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198269335

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Christianity and Liberal Society by Robert Song Pdf

Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world, but despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. Song discusses the different aspects and interpretations of liberalism with reference to the critiques of three twentieth-century theologians: the American Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr on the liberal progressivist philosophy of history; the lesser-known Canadian GeorgeGrant on the threat of technology to fundamental liberal values, as articulated in the recent work of John Rawls; and the French Thomist Jacques Maritain on the defence of political pluralism. Further to this, Song explores the implications of this political theology for the issues in fundamentalconstitutional theory raised by a bill of rights and judicial review of legislation, and concludes with an account of the critical but supportive stance of liberalism Christian theology should take.

Author : Gary North
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015018973985

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Political Polytheism by Gary North Pdf