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Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sacred kinship and the critique of traditional sovereignty mounted by Hobbes and Spinoza. In this book, Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton assemble established and emerging scholars in early modern studies to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology. Political Theology and Early Modernity explores texts by Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Milton, and others that have served as points of departure for such thinkers as Schmitt, Strauss, Benjamin, and Arendt. Written from a spectrum of positions ranging from renewed defenses of secularism to attempts to reconceive the religious character of collective life and literary experience, these essays probe moments of productive conflict, disavowal, and entanglement in politics and religion as they pass between early modern and modern scenes of thought. This stimulating collection is the first to answer not only how Renaissance and baroque literature help explain the persistence of political theology in modernity and postmodernity, but also how the reemergence of political theology as an intellectual and political problem deepens our understanding of the early modern period.
Political theology --- History. --- Historiography. --- political theology, modernity, medieval, iconography, kinship, sacred, holiness, divinity, sovereignty, hobbes, spinoza, shakespeare, machiavelli, milton, schmitt, strauss, benjamin, arendt, secularism, religion, philosophy, christianity, spirituality, nonfiction, collectivism, community, society, politics, history, renaissance, baroque, literature, postmodernity, hamlet or hecuba, corpus mysticum, judaism, kantorowicz, islam, justice, violence, war, marriage, gender, queen elizabeth.
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Violence is present in the very heart of religion and its sacred traditions – also of Christianity and the Bible. The problem, however, is not only that violence is ingrained in the mere existence of religions with their sacred traditions. It is equally problematic to realise that the icy grip of violence on the sacred has gone unnoticed and unchallenged for a very long time. The present publication aims to contribute to the recent scholarly debate about the interconnections between violence and monotheistic religions by analysing the role of violence in the New Testament as well as by offering some hermeneutical perspectives on violence as it is articulated in the earliest Christian writings. Contributors include: Andries G. van Aarde, Paul Decock, Pieter G.R. de Villiers, Ernest van Eck, Jan Willem van Henten, Rob van Houwelingen, Kobus Kok, Tobias Nicklas, Jeremy Punt, Jan G. van der Watt, and Wim Weren.
Bible --- Violence in the Bible --- Violence --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- -225.08*3 --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Theologie van het Nieuwe Testament: themata --- -Christianity --- -Bible. --- Ba-yon Tipan --- Bagong Tipan --- Jaji ma Hungi --- Kainē Diathēkē --- New Testament --- Nouveau Testament --- Novo Testamento --- Novum Testamentum --- Novyĭ Zavet --- Novyĭ Zavi︠e︡t Gospoda nashego Īisusa Khrista --- Novyĭ Zavit --- Nuevo Testamento --- Nuovo Testamento --- Nye Testamente --- Perjanjian Baru --- Dhamma sacʻ kyamʻʺ --- Injīl --- -Conferences - Meetings --- 225.08*3 Theologie van het Nieuwe Testament: themata --- 225.08*3 --- Conferences - Meetings --- Violence in the Bible - Congresses. --- Violence - Religious aspects - Christianity - Congresses. --- present-day spiritualities --- spirituality in religions --- modern Western Buddhism --- Christian spirituality --- Catholic popular devotion --- popular spirituality --- spirituality in organizations --- CAM --- healing --- spiritual humanism --- the cultivation of humanity --- spirituality and esotericism --- Corpus Mysticum --- contemporary Dutch literature --- spiritual engagement --- religious engagement --- religous and secular spiritualities --- religious studies --- the study of present-day spiritualities
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