Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible
This volume explores the political character of premodern and modern readings of Scripture with attention to how these relate to or address political challenges in social and historical context. Essays here also offer constructive models of reading Scripture that can inform the contemporary task of political scriptural interpretation.
Drawing on the constructivist strand of political philosophy, the author shows that it is theoretically possible and politically necessary for theologians to keep faith with human rights. She argues, the Christian tradition as the wellspring of many of the ethical commitments considered central to human rights must embrace its role in the project.
Drawing on the constructivist strand of political philosophy, this book shows that it is theoretically possible and politically necessary for theologians to keep faith with human rights.
Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration
Showcases the powerful role of religion in shaping European attitudes on politics, political integration, and the national and continental identities of its leaders and citizens. In this book the authors present the cultural divide, rooted in the struggles of the reformation, resists the ongoing secularization of the continent.
Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration
Showcases the powerful role of religion in shaping European attitudes on politics, political integration, and the national and continental identities of its leaders and citizens. In this book the authors show, this deep cultural divide, rooted in the struggles of the reformation, resists the ongoing secularization of the continent.
All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U.S. democratic experiment. But what freedom of conscience means, what its scope and limits are, according to the Constitution - these are matters for heated debate. At a moment when such questions loom ......
Emphasizing their manhaj (methodology) toward politics, this book offers a survey on Salafists' ideological transformation from opponents to supporters of political engagement, while demonstrating how activists and jihadi Salafists have threatened regional and international security by endorsing violence and jihad.
Christianity and Political Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong
Lida V. Nedilsky captures the public ramifications of a personal, Christian faith at the time of Hong Kong's pivotal political turmoil. From 1997 to 2008, in the much-anticipated reintegration of Hong Kong into Chinese sovereignty, she conducted detailed interviews of more than fifty Hong Kong people and then followed their daily lives, ......
Modern Interpretations of Augustine's Political Thought
Alongside Saint Thomas Aquinas, the thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. This book examines modern political readings of Augustine, providing an extensive account of the pivotal French, British, and American strands of interpretation.
