| A Politics of Grace: Hope for Redemption in a Post-Christendom Context Contributor(s): Alpers, Christiane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0567679845 ISBN-13: 9780567679840 Publisher: Continnuum-3PL OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Systematic |
| Dewey: 261.7 |
| LCCN: 2017036886 |
| Series: T&t Clark Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Christiane Alpers discusses the contribution and role Christian theology plays in developing of the democratic life in post-Christendom societies. She discusses the three major approaches to this debate - public theology, Radical Orthodoxy, and post-liberal Protestantism - in order to illustrate the shared assumption that such an enhancement should be understood in terms of solving existing political problems. The volume builds on and combines public theology's aspiration to craft a non-triumphant political theology, fit for a post-Christendom context, Radical Orthodoxy's hesitancy to embrace secularism as neutral centre for present democracies; as well as post-liberalism's Christocentric outlook. Alpers engages with a wide variety of thinkers, such as John Milbank, Graham Ward, John Howard Yoder, Kathryn Tanner and Edward Schillebeeckx; to suggest that a political theology in the post-Christendom context could build on the faith that Christ alone has redeemed the whole world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alpers, Christiane: - Christiane Alpers is Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.Van Erp, Stephan: - Stephan van Erp is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Systematic Theology and Theory of Religion and Culture at the Faculties ofTheology and Religious Studies of the Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). His main publications include The Art of God: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics and the Foundations of Faith (2004) and Vrijheid in verdeeldheid: De geschiedenis van religieuze tolerantie (Freedom in Diversity: The History of Religious Tolerance) (2008). |