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"The most powerful piece of political resistance literature from the period of the early empire."
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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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- Title Bonds of Imperfection
- Author Oliver O'Donovan Oliver
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 330
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-12-30
- ISBN 9780802849755 / 080284975X
- Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.26 x 0.89 in (23.42 x 15.90 x 2.26 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Academic
- Library of Congress subjects Christianity and politics - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003049483
- Dewey Decimal Code 261.709
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Citations
- Choice, 09/01/2004, Page 121
- Christian Century, 05/17/2005, Page 23
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