Dyck, John.

Whose Will Be Done? : Essays on Sovereignty and Religion. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (240 pages)

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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Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 1941-2013.


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