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1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; THE SOCIAL CONTEXT; Images, analogies and other tropes; Parameters; Allegorical elaborations; Anthropologists and historians; Divine images as independent variables; Writing history 'backwards'; CONTEMPORARY IMAGES OF GOD AND THE STATE; Scepticism and authority; The analogy questioned; Autarky and absolutism; Stability and structure; The rise of the decisionist model; CHRISTIANS AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE; Biblical perspectives; Representative government; Moral and political principles |
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2 Welfare God and paternal state ITHE WELFARE STATE TODAY; Industries and services; The corporate state; The malaise in local government; Law enforcement, executive discretion and the treatment of deviants; Welfare services and the plight of the poorest; WILLIAM TEMPLE: GOD AND THE WELFARE STATE; Temple: the man and his work; God and the state; Conciliation and the common good; Politics and welfare; Temple and Beveridge; INCARNATION, ATONEMENT AND PERSONALITY; The Christian Social Union; Hastings Rashdall; Scott Holland and Lux Mundi; God as father and friend; The state as grandmother |
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3 Welfare God and paternal state IIWELFARE, THE NEW LIBERALS AND THE STATE; Social legislation; Positive liberty, citizenship and the common good; Hobhouse, Hobson and the social Darwinists; New liberals or 'New Tories'?; THE OXFORD SETTLERS; The Barnetts of Toynbee Hall; Scott Lidgett; THE BALLIOL IDEALISTS; The moral life and the image of God; The concept and role of the state; GERMAN THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL LEGISLATION; Protestant paternalism; Protestant images of God; Max Weber; 4 No king but Caesar: sovereign God and total state; TOTALITARIANISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE |
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RELIGION AND THE NAZI MOVEMENTThe 'German Christians'; Hirsch and Althaus; CARL SCHMITT; Weimar and parliamentarism; Decisionism; Schmitt-a theorist of totalitarianism?; Political theology; KARL BARTH; God and the state; Barth and the Nazis; Divine decisionism; The ethics of divine command; Barth's response; NICOLAS BERDYAEV; The God of freedom; Freedom and anarchy; GOD, TOTALITARIANISM AND THE BUGBEAR OF 'SOCIETY'; 5 Federal politics and finite God: images of God in United States theology; MONARCHY AND AUTARKY ASSAILED; James and Dewey; Process and pluralism; PROCESS PHILOSOPHY AND GOD |
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WhiteheadHartshorne; Wieman; LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM AND THE SOCIAL GOSPEL; Shailer Mathews and the Chicago School; Two philosophers: Howison and Overstreet; Walter Rauschenbusch and the social gospel; Divine democracy and civil religion; THEOLOGICAL IMAGINATION; 6 Impassible God and autarkic state; ROMANTICS AND NATIONALISTS; FICHTE; Fichte's life and work; The self-sufficient state; The autarkic God; SCHLEIERMACHER; Prophet and preacher; The German nation; Schleiermacher's God; The coherence of Schleiermacher; HEGEL; The secret of Hegel; Autonomy of the nation-state |
| Summary |
̀€Religion and politics are necessarily related', declared Ronald Reagan, while addressing an ecumenical prayer breakfast of 17,000 people in Dallas. But how are they connected? Many popular images of God - King, Lord, and Judge - are essentially political, while concepts of might, majesty, dominion, and power are used of both God and the state. This ambitious and original work explores the relations between these images and their political context through the analogy between divine and civil government, and considers what images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the twentieth century. David Nicholls suggests that religious conceptions have often affected political thinking - theological rhetoric, child of political experience, may also be mother of political change. Drawing upon politics, theology, history, sociology, anthropology, and literary criticism, this important new book will be essential reading for all concerned with the relation between Christianity and politics |
| Notes |
"Hulsean lectures ; 1985-6." |
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Originally published: 1989 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Christianity and politics -- History -- 20th century
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Christianity and politics -- History -- 19th century
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Church and state -- History -- 19th century
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Church and state -- History -- 20th century
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Christianity and politics
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Church and state
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0415011728 |
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9780415011723 |
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0203169204 |
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9780203169209 |
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