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Whose Will Be Done? : Essays on Sovereignty and Religion.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739199640
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Whose Will Be Done?DDC classification:
  • 202/.112
LOC classification:
  • JC327
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- I: Understanding Sovereignty -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jean Bethke Elshtain: a Retrospective, 1941-2013 -- 3 The Myth of the Sovereign Self -- 4 Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good -- 5 Bonhoeffer for Political Thought -- 6 Interview with Jean Bethke Elshtain -- II: Sovereignty through the Ages -- 7 Mars Bound: Limited War and Human Flourishing -- 8 Incarnational Selfhood -- 9 Sovereignty and Chastened Liberalism -- 10 Sovereign Selves: 'We Have Met the Enemy and He/She is Us!' -- III: Sovereignty in Context -- 11 God and Power in the Global North and Latin America -- 12 No god but God? Nominalism and Political Islam -- 13 'Revolutions' in Political Theology -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: This collection of essays considers the relationship of sovereignty and religion in numerous contexts. Designed for scholars and students of political theory, philosophy, and religion, the essays contained in this volume will stimulate debate in the classroom and beyond.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- I: Understanding Sovereignty -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jean Bethke Elshtain: a Retrospective, 1941-2013 -- 3 The Myth of the Sovereign Self -- 4 Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good -- 5 Bonhoeffer for Political Thought -- 6 Interview with Jean Bethke Elshtain -- II: Sovereignty through the Ages -- 7 Mars Bound: Limited War and Human Flourishing -- 8 Incarnational Selfhood -- 9 Sovereignty and Chastened Liberalism -- 10 Sovereign Selves: 'We Have Met the Enemy and He/She is Us!' -- III: Sovereignty in Context -- 11 God and Power in the Global North and Latin America -- 12 No god but God? Nominalism and Political Islam -- 13 'Revolutions' in Political Theology -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This collection of essays considers the relationship of sovereignty and religion in numerous contexts. Designed for scholars and students of political theory, philosophy, and religion, the essays contained in this volume will stimulate debate in the classroom and beyond.

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