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Two of today's leading experts on the Christian political tradition
plumb significant moments in premodern Christian political thought,
using them in original and adventurous ways to clarify, criticize,
and redirect contemporary political perspectives and discussions.
Drawing on the Bible and the Western history of ideas, Oliver and
Joan Lockwood O'Donovan explore key Christian voices on "the
political" - political action, political institutions, and
political society. Covered here are Bonaventure, Thomas, Ockham,
Wycliff, Erasmus, Luther, Grotius, Barth, Ramsey, and key modern
papal encyclicals. The authors' discussion takes them across a wide
range of political concerns, from economics and personal freedom to
liberal democracy and the nature of statehood. Ultimately, these
insightful essays point to political judgment as the strength of
the past theological tradition and its eclipse as the weakness of
present political thought.
A reference tool that provides an overview of the history of
Christian political thought with selections from second century to
the seventeenth century.From the second century to the seventeenth,
from Irenaeus to Grotius, this unique reader provides a coherent
overview of the development of Christian political thought. The
editors have collected readings from the works of over sixty-five
authors, together with introductory essays that give historical
details about each thinker and discuss how each has contributed to
the tradition of Christian political thought. Complete with
important Greek and Latin texts available here in English for the
first time, this volume will be a primary resource for readers from
a wide range of interests.
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