Theology and the Political : Theo-Political Reflections on Contemporary Politics in Ecumenical Conversation.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Political Action as Witness -- Part 1 Theo-political Retrieval for Contemporary Political Practice -- Chapter 2 Between Politics and Apocalypse: Discerning the missio Dei in the Contemporary Global Crisis -- Chapter 3 Theology and the Basis of Human Rights -- Chapter 4 Human Rights and the Orthodox Church in a Global World -- Chapter 5 Theology and the Justice of Nations: The Pursuit of an Elusive Justice in a Politically Plural World -- Part 2 Theo-political Structural Analysis of Secularity and Post-secularity -- Chapter 6 Terrorism and Political Theology -- Chapter 7 A Tortuous Boundary: Polis, Civil Religion, and the Distinction between the Sacred and Profane -- Chapter 8 Fundamentalism in Eastern Christianity -- Chapter 9 The Political Aspects of Weak Theology -- Part 3 Theo-political Engagement from Specific Christian Traditions -- Chapter 10 What Is Wrong with the "Left" and the "Right"? An Orthodox Christian Perspective -- Chapter 11 The Prince of Peace Smokes a Peace Pipe: A Church Response to the Challenge of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Chapter 12 Going Political? The Involvement of Churches in Public Debates on Prolife Issues in Belarus -- Chapter 13 Gendering the Fronts and Fronts against Gender: Feminism and Political Theology in Post-Maidan Ukraine -- Chapter 14 Evangelicalism, Authoritarianism, and Socialism: Dialectical Theology in Twenty-First Century America -- Index of Names and Subjects.

Theology and the Political, edited by Alexei Bodrov and Stephen M. Garrett, is a volume animated by the motif of political action as witness in a missional key. The book makes a unique interdisciplinary contribution to the field of political theology.

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