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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2012
Print publication year:
2012
Online ISBN:
9781139225779
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139225779
Subjects:
Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Theology
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Book description

For a century or more political theology has been in decline. Recent years, however, have seen increasing interest not only in how church and state should be related, but in the relation between divine authority and political authority, and in what religion has to say about the limits of state authority and the grounds of political obedience. In this book, Nicholas Wolterstorff addresses this whole complex of issues. He takes account of traditional answers to these questions, but on every point stakes out new positions. Wolterstorff offers a fresh theological defense of liberal democracy, argues that the traditional doctrine of 'two rules' should be rejected and offers a fresh exegesis of Romans 13, the canonical biblical passage for the tradition of Christian political theology. This book provides useful discussion for scholars and students of political theology, law and religion, philosophy of religion and social ethics.

Reviews

'The Mighty and the Almighty is probably the most important English-language contribution to a constructive theology of political authority since Oliver O'Donovan's The Desire of the Nations.'

Source: Studies in Christian Ethics

'Nicholas Wolterstorff guides the reader through the world of political theology, in a way that is refreshingly clear and well reasoned. The book … retain[s] the conversational tone and accessibility required in a lecture and desirable in any written introduction to a complex field. … It is refreshingly Christian in its approach … a lively analysis of the freedom the Church ought to enjoy in the liberal democratic state.'

Stephen Farrell Source: Search: A Church of Ireland Journal

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