Beyond suspicion : post-Christendom Protestant political theology in John Howard Yoder and Oliver O'Donovan / Paul Doerksen ; foreword by P. Travis Kroeker.

By:

Doerksen, Paul G, 1960-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Paternoster theological monographsPublisher: Milton Keynes, U.K. ; Colorado Springs, Colo. : Paternoster, 2009Description: xvi, 230 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781842276341
1842276344

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LOC classification:

BT83.59.D652 2009 19178

Contents:

"God is King" : the Hebrew Scriptures in the theopolitical thought of John Howard Yoder and Oliver O'Donovan -- A political rendering of the claim that Jesus is Lord : Yoder and O'Donovan's theopolitical reading of the New Testament -- The secular and the eternal : a contested reading of Christendom -- The Just War revisited : the Just War rejected --Concluding reflections on post-Christendom Christian political theology.

Summary: The modern era includes a two-fold tradition of radical suspicion--the suspicion that politicians corrupt morality, and that politics is corrupted by theology. However, such a view has been challenged in recent theological thought which seeks to move beyond such suspicion to recover a constructive role for political theology. By pursuing a critical comparison of the political theologies of John Howard Yoder and Oliver O'Donovan, the present work shows how post-Christendom Protestant theology has attempted to move beyond suspicion without putting forward some hidden attempt to reassert a contemporary version of Christendom. The critical comparison brings to view areas of significant convergence and divergence in understandings of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. O'Donovan and Yoder's respective interpretations of Christendom are also fundamentally divergent, as are their views of the use of force by government, clearly seen in O'Donovan's support of Just War Tradition and Yoder's promotion of Messianic pacifism.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Oriental Theological Seminary New materials shelf	Non-fiction	BT83.59.D652 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		19178

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-228) and index.

The modern era includes a two-fold tradition of radical suspicion--the suspicion that politicians corrupt morality, and that politics is corrupted by theology. However, such a view has been challenged in recent theological thought which seeks to move beyond such suspicion to recover a constructive role for political theology. By pursuing a critical comparison of the political theologies of John Howard Yoder and Oliver O'Donovan, the present work shows how post-Christendom Protestant theology has attempted to move beyond suspicion without putting forward some hidden attempt to reassert a contemporary version of Christendom. The critical comparison brings to view areas of significant convergence and divergence in understandings of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. O'Donovan and Yoder's respective interpretations of Christendom are also fundamentally divergent, as are their views of the use of force by government, clearly seen in O'Donovan's support of Just War Tradition and Yoder's promotion of Messianic pacifism.

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