Who Is the "Polis" Addressed by Political Theology? Notes on a Conundrum
How does political theology, with its eschatologically themed commitment to both critique and constructive transformation of the social, economic, and political in the light of the Gospel, break through to a distressed Western polis focused on the immediate and the short-term, with almost no sense o...
| Published in: | Theological studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
[2019]
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Theological studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 80, Issue: 4, Pages: 879-896 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New media
/ Immediacy
/ Time
/ Political theology
/ Performance of
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society RH Evangelization; Christian media |
| Further subjects: | B
performance hermeneutic
B Pope Francis B Desire B digital immediacy B social acceleration B Discipleship B sacramental imagination B Time B Application B Eschatology |
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| Summary: | How does political theology, with its eschatologically themed commitment to both critique and constructive transformation of the social, economic, and political in the light of the Gospel, break through to a distressed Western polis focused on the immediate and the short-term, with almost no sense of a "future"? I suggest discipleship-as-performance and a temporal and sacramental "natural theology of desire," in tune with the revelation of the grace of God in Christ in time, as ways of addressing this conundrum and seconding Pope Francis's insight that "time is greater than space." |
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| ISSN: | 2169-1304 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040563919874513 |