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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812780203321

Autore

Dyck John (John H. A.), <1951->

Titolo

Whose will be done? : essays on sovereignty and religion / / [edited by] John H.A. Dyck, Paul S. Rowe, and Jens Zimmermann ; foreword by Eric Elshtain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-9964-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

202/.112

Soggetti

Sovereignty - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; I: Understanding Sovereignty; 1 Introduction; 2 Jean Bethke Elshtain: a Retrospective, 1941-2013; 3 The Myth of the Sovereign Self; 4 Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good; 5 Bonhoeffer for Political Thought; 6 Interview with Jean Bethke Elshtain; II: Sovereignty through the Ages; 7 Mars Bound: Limited War and Human Flourishing; 8 Incarnational Selfhood; 9 Sovereignty and Chastened Liberalism; 10 Sovereign Selves: 'We Have Met the Enemy and He/She is Us!'; III: Sovereignty in Context; 11 God and Power in the Global North and Latin America

12 No god but God? Nominalism and Political Islam13 'Revolutions' in Political Theology; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays considers the relationship of sovereignty and religion in numerous contexts. Designed for scholars and students of political theory, philosophy, and religion, the essays contained in this volume will stimulate debate in the classroom and beyond.