TY - BOOK ID - 142202465 TI - Remembering and resisting : the new political theology AU - Metz, Johann Baptist AU - Downey, John K. PY - 2022 SN - 9781666710304 166671030X 9781666710311 1666710318 9781666710328 PB - Eugene Cascade Books DB - UniCat KW - Political theology KW - Catholic Church KW - Doctrines. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142202465 AB - "At a time when we have never known more about our globe or shared more information, we live--paradoxically--in a driven, disconnected world. In science, in economics, our communications industry, and even in the public sphere, the human person tends to disappear from consideration or evaporate into an abstraction. The new political theology tries to break the spell of this cultural amnesia. These essays and interviews invite readers to consider the future by asking Where are we headed and what do we stand for. Johann Baptist Metz's theology emerged as an attempt to understand shifting borders and threatening situations. It does not prescribe a political agenda or policies, but it does ask where we might stand if we are to shape a meaningful future together rather than in isolated or in ideological camps. Beginning with the spiritualty of his popular Poverty of Spirit, Metz developed a new method of theological inquiry for our anxious times. These essays represent the mature clarification of his earlier work." -- ER -