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The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology

Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology

by Oliver O'Donovan (University of Oxford)

  • Paperback
  • 320 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm

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Political theology as we know it today reacts against the attempt to insulate theology from political theory which has generally characterised the modern era. But its own intellectual parentage in the idealist historicism of the nineteenth century has left it still entrammelled in the suspicions and inhibitions from which it has wanted to break free. Oliver O'Donovan contends that to pass beyond suspicion and totalised criticism of politics and to achieve a positive reconstruction of political thought, theology must reach back behind the modern tradition, achieving a fuller, less selective reading of the Scriptures and learning from an older politico-theological discourse which flourished in the patristic, medieval and Reformation periods. Central to that discourse was a series of questions about authority, generated by Jesus' proclamation of the Kingdom of God. This book, now published in paperback, makes an important contribution to contemporary political theology and Christian ethics.
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  • Author

    Oliver O'Donovan (University of Oxford)

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    July 1999

  • Edition

    New ed

  • Weight

    436g

  • Page Count

    320

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521665162

  • ISBN-10

    0521665167

  • Eden Code

    11026

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