T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology brings together some of the most important, up-to-date scholarly texts published on this subject.
Edited by accomplished scholars this single-volume reader fills the gap in the existing literature. Including readings from Augustine, Aquinas, Schmitt, Moltmann, Martin Luther, John Howard Yoder, Niebuhr and Hauerwas, this reader analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts and figures from the field of political theology. These texts are grouped by topic to allow students to have a clear understanding of the development of political theology.
The volume presents a range of pedagogical features - introductions, suggestions for further readings, discussion questions - that allow students to read, interpret and critically engage with the major issues in political theology.
Introduction
I. The Emergence of Political Theology
Introduction by Amy Daughton
1. Scriptural Sources
1 Samuel 8; Luke 1.68-79; Matthew 25.31-46; Luke 23.33-43 Augustine, City of God (excerpts)
2. Gregory of Nyssa, ‘First Homily on the Love of the Poor, or On God Works’
3. John Chrysostom, ‘First Homily on Lazarus and the Rich Man, or On Wealth and Poverty’
4. Augustine of Hippo - City of God, Book XIX, Chapters 11-28
5. Augustine of Hippo - Letters 189, 220
6. Thomas Aquinas - Extracts from Summa Theologiae
7. Thomas Aquinas - Extracts from De regimine principum
8. Discussion Questions
II. Approaches to Political Theology
Introduction by Anna Rowlands
9. Carl Schmitt - Definition of Sovereignty
10. Jürgen Moltmann - Covenant or Leviathan? Political Theology for Modern Times
11. Johannes Baptist Metz - Theology in the New Paradigm: Political Theology
12. Dorothy Soelle - Extracts from the Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance
13. Jürgen Habermas – Faith and Knowledge
14. Discussion Questions
III. The Church and the Political
Introduction by Anna Rowlands
15. Martin Luther - Extracts from Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
16. Martin Luther - Extracts from On Secular Authority: How Far Does the Obedience Owed to IT Extend?
17. John Calvin - Of Civil Government
18. John Neville Figgis - Extracts from the Civic Standpoint
19. William Temple - What Christians Stand for in the Secular World
20. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth - The Aryan Clauses and Further Correspondence
21. Dorothy Day - Why
22. Dorothy Day - Extracts from We Go on Record
23. Discussion Questions
IV. The Politics of Jesus
Introduction by Elizabeth Phillips
24. John Howard Yoder - Are You the One Who Is to Come?
25. Michael Sattler - The Schleitheim Articles
26. Reinhold Niebuhr - The Ethic of Jesus and the Social Problem
27. James Cone - Jesus Christ in Black Theology
28. Discussion Questions
V. Violence and Peace
Introduction by Elizabeth Phillips
29. Tertullian - Extracts from On The Crown
30. Ambrose of Milan - Extracts from On the Duties of Clergy, Book I
31. Pilgram Marpeck - Concerning the Lowliness of Christ
32. Martin Luther King, Jr. - A Time to Breal Silence
33. William T. Cavanaugh - Violence Religious and Secular: Questioning the Categories
34. Rowan Williams - Do Human Rights Exist?
35. Discussion Questions
VI. Liberalism and Democracy
Introduction by Anna Rowlands
36. Thomas Hobbes - Extracts from Leviathan
37. Stanley Hauerwas - The Church and Liberal Democracy
38. John Milbank - Liberality versus Liberalism
39. Christopher Insole - Theology and Politics: The Intellectual History of Liberalism
40. Eric Gregory - Love and Citizenship after Augustine
41. Aristotle Papanikolaou - The Politics of Divine-Human Communion
42. Discussion Questions
VII. Oppression, Marginalization and Liberation
Introduction by Amy Daughton
43. Leo XIII - Extracts from Rerum Novarum
44. Jon Sobrino - Extracts from Extra Pauperes Nulla Salus: A Short Utopian Prophetic Essay
45. Marcella Althaus-Reid - ¿Bién Sonados? The Future of Mystical Connections in Liberation Theology
46. J. Kameron Carther - Interlude on Christology and Race
47. Rosemary Radford Ruether - Extracts from Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology
48. Musa Dube - Reading for Decolonization (John 4.1-42)
49. Discussion Questions
VIII. Creation, History and Eschatology
Introduction by Elizabeth Philips
50. Charles Mathewes - The Republic of Grace; or, the Public Ramifications of Heaven
51. Oliver O’Donovan - The Political Thought of the Book of Revelation
52. Sergii Bulgakov - The Soul of Socialism
53. Slavoj Žižek - Extracts from Thinking Backward: Predestination and Apocalypse
54. Discussion Questions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Scripture Index
Subject Index
Elizabeth Philips , Anna Rowlands , Amy Daughton
Elizabeth Phillips is Director of Studies at Westcott House and Research Associate at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, UK. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK and author of Political Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed (T&T Clark, 2012).
Anna Rowlands is St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the Durham University, UK and Chair of the UK Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice. She is author of Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times (forthcoming).
Amy Daughton is Lecturer in Practical Theology in the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Research Associate with the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge, UK. She is author of With and For Others (2016), which considers the work of Paul Ricoeur and Thomas Aquinas for intercultural hermeneutics.
Aside from the intrinsic merits of this collection, its timing could not be more vital ... it is a fine and valuable contribution. * The Pastoral Review * This is an excellent resource. The editors have produced a volume that can be used as an introduction to the study of 'political theology' from a theological perspective, as an aid to teaching and learning, and as a tool for those who are more familiar with the field. * Crucible, the Journal of Christian Social Ethics *