T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology

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PREFACE
PART ONE Where Was God? Jewish and Christian Theology in the Shadow of Auschwitz
CHAPTER ONE From Holocaust Theology to a Jewish Theology of Liberation
	INTRODUCTION
	ON GOD, POLITICS, AND CHRISTIAN RENEWAL
	THE GENIUS AND UNRAVELING OF HOLOCAUST THEOLOGY
	PROGRESSIVE JEWISH DISSENT AND THE EMERGENCE OF JEWS OF CONSCIENCE
	ADDRESSING HOLOCAUST THEOLOGY ON ITS OWN TURF
	ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1967 WAR/OCCUPATION
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CHAPTER TWO Christian Responses to the Holocaust
	INTRODUCTION
	THREE LIVES
	KEY THEMES
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CHAPTER THREE Political Theology and the Theologies of Liberation
	INTRODUCTION
	SOME THEOLOGICAL THEMES AND HIGHLIGHTS
	FROM LIBERATION TO MARTYRDOM?
	ROMERO’S PASTORAL LETTERS: GUIDEPOSTS FOR THE CHURCH
	CONCLUSION
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PART TWO Scriptures and Traditions: Critical Retrieval of Historical Sources
CHAPTER FOUR The Cup Does Not Run Over
	INTRODUCTION
	POLITICS IN THEOLOGY
	THEOLOGY IN POLITICS
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER FIVE Political Theology and the New Testament
	THE IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXT
	THE NEOLIBERAL CAPTIVITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
	THE POLITICS OF READING THE POLITICS OF JESUS
	THE POLITICS OF READING THE POLITICS OF PAUL
	THE POLITICS OF READING THE POLITICS OF THE GOSPELS
	INTERROGATING THE LEGACY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITINGS
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CHAPTER SIX Qur’anic Political Theology
	INTRODUCTION
	THE TWO-BODIED PROPHET
	TAWHID AL-HAKIMMIYA AND POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER SEVEN Augustine and Political Theory
	INTRODUCTION
	AUGUSTINE’S LIFE AND LEADERSHIP
	AUGUSTINE AND THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
	AUGUSTINE AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY
	AUGUSTINIAN REALISM
	AUGUSTINIAN LIBERALISM
	AUGUSTINIAN COMMUNITARIANISM
	AUGUSTINIAN REPUBLICANISM
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER EIGHT Thomas Becket
	INTRODUCTION
	THE CHURCH AND THE CROWN IN TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
	ROYAL CUSTOM AND CLERICAL LIBERTY
	THE POLEMICS OF 1166
	THE DISPUTE WITHIN THE CHURCH
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER NINE The Political Praxis of Bartolom é de Las Casas
	WHEN THINGS FALL APART
	THE EPISTLE TO THE ROYAL COUNCIL OF INDIES: A CHALLENGE TO THE CROWN
	THE LETTER TO THE POPE: A CHALLENGE TO THE CHURCH
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CHAPTER TEN The Political and Legal Legacy of the Sixteenth-Century Reformations
	INTRODUCTION
	LUTHERANISM
	ANABAPTISM
	ANGLICANISM
	CALVINISM
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PART THREE An Appraisal of Contemporary Political Theologies
CHAPTER ELEVEN Theology After the Death of God
	INTRODUCTION
	FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE AND THE DEATH OF GOD
	RADICAL THEOLOGY
	WEAK THEOLOGY
	DEATH OF GOD OR DEATH OF THE SACRED?
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER TWELVE Karl Barth and the Barmen Declaration
	INTRODUCTION
	THE PAINFUL ROAD TO UNITY IN THE CHURCH STRUGGLE
	THE THEOLOGY OF BARMEN
	BARTH, BARMEN, AND GERMAN RACISM TOWARDS JEWISH PEOPLE
	A CONFESSION OF GUILT
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Bonhoeffer in Latin American Liberationist Christianity and Theology
	INTRODUCTION
	PAVING THE WAY FOR LATIN AMERICAN LIBERATION THEOLOGIES
	BONHOEFFER IN THE WRITINGS OF CATHOLIC LIBERATION THEOLOGIANS
	BONHOEFFER IN THE PROTESTANT STREAM OF LALT
	BY WAY OF CONCLUSION . . .
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN Jürgen Moltmann and the New Political Theology
	INTRODUCTION
	THE “OLD POLITICAL THEOLOGY” OF CARL SCHMITT
	THE BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT OF MOLTMANN’S THEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
	FROM THE THEOLOGY OF HOPE TO THE CRUCIFIED GOD
	THE DIALECTIC OF TRANSFORMATION AND CRITIQUE
	MOLTMANN’S POLITICAL HERMENEUTIC
	THE POLITICS OF THE EXODUS CHURCH
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN Social Ethics, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Political Theology
	INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN Gustavo Gutiérrez and Latin American Liberation Theology
	INTRODUCTION
	UNCOVERING FAITH AS POLITICAL
	A THEOLOGICAL POLITICS OF SALVATION
	THE MYSTICAL-PROPHETIC TURN
	LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN James H. Cone and Black Liberation Theology
	ORIGINS
	BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY: PRETEXT
	THE CONTEXT OF BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY
	GOD IS BLACK
	THE BLACK CHRIST
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Latina Feminist and Mujerista Theologies as Political Theologies?
	INTRODUCTION
	FABRICS OF MUJERISTA AND LATINA FEMINIST THEOLOGIES
	LAS TEJEDORAS OF THE FABRICS
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER NINETEEN Feminist Theologies
	INTRODUCTION
	MANY SHADES OF PURPLE
	FEMINIST THEOLOGIES AS RHETORICAL THEOLOGIES
	FEMINIST CONCERNS
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CHAPTER TWENTY The Exodus and Some Possibilities of Jewish Political Thought
	INTRODUCTION
	WHAT IS GOOD LEADERSHIP?
	HOW SHOULD WE JUDGE VIOLENCE?
	MAY THE EXODUS BE A UNIVERSAL PARADIGM FOR LIBERATION?
	WHO IS THE COMMUNITY OF ISRAEL?
	WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COVENANT?
	WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE EXODUS?
	CONCLUSION: EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Political Theology of Catholic Social Teaching
	INTRODUCTION
	CHALLENGES TO CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT AS POLITICAL THEOLOGY
	TEN PRINCIPLES FOR LIFE IN COMMUNITY
	PRIMACY OF OPTION FOR THE POOR
	CRITIQUES AND FAILURES
	CONCLUSION: THE POPE FRANCIS MOMENT
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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Orthodox Christianity and Political Theology
	INTRODUCTION
	SYMPHONIA AND BEYOND
	DEIFICATION AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
	CONCLUSION
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PART FOUR Constructive Horizons in Political Theology
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Politics of the Espíritu
	INTRODUCTION
	DOMINANT ETHICS AND THE POLITICS OF JESUS
	THE POLITICS OF JESUS AND BEYOND IN THE AMERICAN GLOBAL SOUTH
	THE POLITICS OF JESUS IN LATIN AMERICA
	TOWARD THE POLITICS OF JESÚS IN THE US LATINA DIASPORA
	CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS
	THE POLITICS OF THE ESPÍRITU
	ETHICS AS RECOGNITION–ASSEMBLAGE–DECOLONIAL HEALING
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Christian Humanism, redivivus
	INTRODUCTION
	NATALITY, MORTALITY, AND THE TELEOLOGICAL NATURE OF BEING HUMAN
	COMMON HUMANITY OR BEGINNING WITH HOW HUMANS ARE THE SAME
	ETHNOGRAPHY OR BEGINNING WITH DIFFERENCE NOT SAMENESS
	THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OR BEGINNING WITH GOD
	“HUMANITY” AS MORAL AND POLITICAL JUDGMENT
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE The Obstinate Legacy of Race and Colonialism
	INTRODUCTION
	THE PROBLEM OF MUSLIMS
	A CRITICAL MUSLIM STUDIES FRAMEWORK
	MUSLIMS AS MINORITIES IN THE WEST
	THE HISTORICAL PROCESS OF RACIALIZATION
	SECULARISM, RELIGION AND MUSLIMS
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX The Third City Radical Orthodoxy’s (Emphatically) Complex Political Theology
	INTRODUCTION
	PERPETUAL EUCHARIST
	CHRISTENDOM AS THE THIRD CITY
	RADICAL ORTHODOXY’S ENDURING SERIOUSNESS
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Liberating Barth?From a Theological Critique of Idolatry to a Political Critique of Ideology
	INTRODUCTION
	BARTH IN BLACK AND WHITE
	BARTH ON EMPIRE, CAPITAL, AND RACE
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT New Directions in Protestant Social Ethics
	INTRODUCTION
	LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM: SEEDBED FOR PROTESTANT SOCIAL ETHICS
	THE BIRTH OF SOCIAL ETHICS: NINETEENTH CENTURY
	TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DEBATES
	PROSPECTS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROTESTANT SOCIAL ETHICS
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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Lex Naturae
	INTRODUCTION
	LEX NATURAE
	THE LITURGICAL LAWS, THE SACRED, AND THE EARTH
	LITURGIES, TIME, AND SPACE
	SPACE AND PLACE AND WORSHIP
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER THIRTY Slavoj Žižek Christianity, the Death of God, and Enjoying Hopelessness
	INTRODUCTION
	ŽIŽEK’S THEORY OF IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE
	ŽIŽEK’S THEOLOGY AS IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE
	DEATH OF GOD THEOLOGY AND THE “NEGATION OF NEGATION”
	ŽIŽEK AND POLITICAL THEOLOGYAFTER IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE
	“THE SPIRIT”: A THEOLOGY OF THE COLLECTIVE
	CONCLUSION: THE END OF HOPE, OR “HOW TO ENJOY HOPELESSNESS”
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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE State(s) of Exception The United States, the State of Israel, and the Legacy of Chosenness
	INTRODUCTION
	THEOLOGIZING THE EXCEPTION
	CHOSENNESS AND TRIUMPH
	CONCLUSIONS: EXCEPTIONALISM AND ITS EFFECTS
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CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Praying to the O/other Rethinking Ecclesiology in the Context of Increasing Islamophobia
	INTRODUCTION
	RESPONDING TO ISLAMOPHOBIA AS CLERGY: STRATEGIC DILEMMAS AND ECCLESIOLOGICAL POSSIBILITIES
	JUDITH BUTLER AND BRUNO LATOUR: RELIGION AS PERFORMED MATERIALITY
	THE POLITICAL POTENTIAL OF LITURGY: PRAYING TO ALLAH AS A CHRISTIAN PRIEST IN THE MIDST OF ISLAMOPHOBIA
	CLERICAL DESTABILIZATION OF THE PRIVILEGED MAJORITY TRADITION
	. . . AND, OF COURSE, WE DON’T BECOME MUSLIMS
	ECCLESIOLOGICAL RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WAKE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA
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	INTERNET SOURCES
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Social Trinitarianism through Iconic Participation
	INTRODUCTION
	THE DIVINE ECONOMY OF THE TRIUNE GOD
	SIGHT: FALLEN AND REDEEMED
	THE MYSTERY OF OTHERNESS
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PART FIVE The Future of Political Theologies
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Toward an Islamic Theology of World Religions
	THE POLEMICAL LEGACY OF THE PAST: NO EXIT?
	THE PROBLEM OF TOLERANCE: AVOIDING THE THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS
	“EPISTEMIC MODESTY” AND THE PROBLEM OF HETERODOXY
	FINDING “INVESTMENT BANKS” OF THEOLOGICAL RESOURCES
	PREPARING THE WAY FORWARD45
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CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Political Theologies in a Post-Christian World
	WHAT IS POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND WHY DOES IT MATTER TODAY?
	WESTERN MODERNITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF NORMATIVITY AND LEGITIMACY
	A NEW POLITICAL THEOLOGY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?
	A POLITICAL-HISTORICAL HERMENEUTICS
	CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Everybody Hates the Prophet
	INTRODUCTION: A POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF THE BREACH
	THE ORGANIZATION OF JUSTICE
	SO WHY IS IT SO HARD TO BE GOOD?
	NO MORAL ACTION IS TAKEN ALONE
	THE INTRINSIC STRUCTURE OF FAILURE
	NOT YET: THEOLOGICAL HOPEFULNESS
	CONCLUSION: TESTIMONY
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