LEADER 03906nam 22006135 450 001 9910768469103321 005 20251008150453.0 010 $a9783031462276 010 $a3031462270 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-46227-6 035 $a(CKB)29092662100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30977743 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30977743 035 $a(OCoLC)1411308308 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-46227-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929092662100041 100 $a20231128d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Transcendence of Desire $eA Theology of Political Agency /$fby Tom James, David True 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (260 pages) 225 1 $aNew Approaches to Religion and Power,$x2634-6087 311 08$a9783031462269 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: The Politics of Death -- 2. Renewing Political Agency: Arendt on Natality and Judgment -- 3. Theology's Re-politicizing: Crisis and Critique -- 3. Transcendence in a Secular Age: Cruciform Desire -- 4. The Problem and Promise of Politics -- 5. Prophetic Agency -- 6. Practical Agency -- 7. The Church as a Community of Desire. 330 $aThe ?secular age? is not a smooth, untroubled process of accumulation and advance but an uneven and unpredictable series of clashes of interest. Charles Taylor?s ?immanent frame? cannot be construed merely as a phenomenon within religion and culture but urgently needs to be understood in political and economic terms?i.e., as a class project. The failure of the secular, vividly displayed in the crumbling legitimacy of global institutions and in the spectacle of police violence, both calls for and makes possible a renewal of political agency. Tom James and David True argue that a theology of the cross has a distinctive potential today: it can pierce the sacred aura of normalcy around the consensual anti-politics of the neoliberal order so that a vision of a world beyond today?s racialized capitalism can emerge. But they contend that we don?t need to forsake the emancipatory aims of modernity nor retreat to local communities. As an alternative to these weak strategies, they offer a constructive and cruciform account of political agency that includes both prophetic resistance and practical wisdom, each embedded in contemporary struggles for freedom that, they argue, embody divine desire for a common world. Tom James is a pastor in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of In Face of Reality: The Constructive Theology of Gordon D. Kaufman (2014) and co-author of A Philosophy of Christian Materialism (2015). David True is a visiting scholar at Pfeiffer University and is co-editor of the journal Political Theology. He is the co-editor of Paradoxical Virtue: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition (2020) and the editor of Prophecy in a Secular Age: An Introduction (2021). . 410 0$aNew Approaches to Religion and Power,$x2634-6087 606 $aLiberation theology 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aLiberation Theology 606 $aPolitical Theory 606 $aSocial Theory 615 0$aLiberation theology. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aLiberation Theology. 615 24$aPolitical Theory. 615 24$aSocial Theory. 676 $a261.7 700 $aJames$b Tom$f1971-$0885818 702 $aTrue$b David 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910768469103321 996 $aThe Transcendence of Desire$93660660 997 $aUNINA