Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Theology
Cover of the book Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz, Lexington Books
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz ISBN: 9780739144312
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: December 21, 2009
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
ISBN: 9780739144312
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: December 21, 2009
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily unfriendly to the liberal state, but neither philosophical analysis nor empirical argument has convincingly established that conclusion. Examining the problem from a variety of perspectives including law, philosophy, history, political theory, and religious studies, the essays in Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State suggest the possibilities for and limits on what theological reflection might contribute to liberal polities across the globe. Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State develops these issues under five headings. Part One explores 'The Nature of Religious Argument' as it can inflect discussions of public policy, political theory, jurisprudence, and education. Part Two, 'Theologies of the Marketplace,' notes that theology can by turns be highly critical, neutral, or even inordinately supportive of market operations. Part Three, 'European Perspectives,' reviews and develops arguments from Abraham Kuyper, Karl Barth, and French post-modernists concerning how one might integrate theological discourse into the public sphere. Part Four offers Israel, Pakistan and Tibet as 'Asian Perspectives' on how theology may comport with liberalism in recently created states (or, in the last case, a diasporic government-in-exile) where powerful religious constituencies make 'secular' civil action extremely problematic. Finally, Part V, 'Religion and Terror,' probes the vexed relationship between conceptions of divine and human justice, where the imperatives of theology and state confront each other most nakedly. Collectively, Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State suggests that the liberal state cannot keep theology out of public discourse and may even benefit from its intervention, but that their intersection, if potentially beneficial, is always fraught.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily unfriendly to the liberal state, but neither philosophical analysis nor empirical argument has convincingly established that conclusion. Examining the problem from a variety of perspectives including law, philosophy, history, political theory, and religious studies, the essays in Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State suggest the possibilities for and limits on what theological reflection might contribute to liberal polities across the globe. Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State develops these issues under five headings. Part One explores 'The Nature of Religious Argument' as it can inflect discussions of public policy, political theory, jurisprudence, and education. Part Two, 'Theologies of the Marketplace,' notes that theology can by turns be highly critical, neutral, or even inordinately supportive of market operations. Part Three, 'European Perspectives,' reviews and develops arguments from Abraham Kuyper, Karl Barth, and French post-modernists concerning how one might integrate theological discourse into the public sphere. Part Four offers Israel, Pakistan and Tibet as 'Asian Perspectives' on how theology may comport with liberalism in recently created states (or, in the last case, a diasporic government-in-exile) where powerful religious constituencies make 'secular' civil action extremely problematic. Finally, Part V, 'Religion and Terror,' probes the vexed relationship between conceptions of divine and human justice, where the imperatives of theology and state confront each other most nakedly. Collectively, Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State suggests that the liberal state cannot keep theology out of public discourse and may even benefit from its intervention, but that their intersection, if potentially beneficial, is always fraught.

More books from Lexington Books

Cover of the book The Culture of Leadership in Contemporary China by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book Class Formations and Inequality Structures in Contemporary African Migration by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book Beyond Mechanism by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book The Bottle, The Breast, and the State by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book Syrian Forced Migration and Public Health in the European Union by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book The American Presidency and Entertainment Media by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book Straussophobia by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living" by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book When Architecture Meets Activism by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book New Media and Digital Pedagogy by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book Christianity and Culture in the City by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book The Who and Philosophy by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book Playing Offstage by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
Cover of the book Evolution of the Modern Sports Fan by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Nicholas Wolterstorff, Regina M. Schwartz
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy