Redeeming Politics
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Hardback
£82.00
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691632322
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 19/04/2016
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
Peter Iver Kaufman explores how various Christian leaders throughout history have used forms of "political theology" to merge the romance of conquest and empire with hopes for political and religious redemption. His discussion covers such figures as Constantine, Augustine, Charlemagne, Pope Gregory VII, Dante, Zwingli, Calvin, and Cromwell. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Foreword, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Abbreviations, pg. xiii*Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER One. Constantine, pg. 11*CHAPTER Two. Constantine's Shadow (I), pg. 29*CHAPTER Three. Constantine's Shadow (II), pg. 41*CHAPTER Four. Puritanism and Cromwell's New Model Army, pg. 60*CHAPTER Five. The Imperial Papacy, pg. 77*CHAPTER Six. John Calvin's Geneva, pg. 105*CHAPTER Seven. Augustine's Cities of God, pg. 127*CHAPTER Eight. Sectarian Dualism and Sociolatry, pg. 149*Conclusion, pg. 170*Bibliographical Remarks, pg. 175*Index, pg. 205
"[This book] stands as an impressive series of studies of the church-state relationship... It shows how creative religious leaders have been as they have worked to relate faith to politics in the assurance that the world and the communities of faith cannot exist well in complete separation."--W. Fred Graham, Journal of the American Academy of Religion