Bonds of ImperfectionWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004 - 324 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. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Moments in the TheologicalPolitical Tradition | 23 |
History and Politics in the Book of Revelation | 25 |
The Political Thought of City of God 19 | 48 |
Christian Platonism and Nonproprietary Community | 73 |
The Theological Economics of Medieval Usury Theory | 97 |
The Christian Pedagogy and Ethics of Erasmus | 121 |
The Challenge and the Promise of Protomodern Christian Political Thought | 137 |
Contemporary Themes Liberal Democracy the NationState Localities and Internationalism | 205 |
Government as Judgment | 207 |
Subsidiarity and Political Authority in Theological Perspective | 225 |
Karl Barth and Paul Ramseys Uses of Power | 246 |
Nation State and Civil Society in the Western Biblical Tradition | 276 |
The Loss of a Sense of Place | 296 |
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The Justice of Assignment and Subjective Rights in Grotius | 167 |
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