The Conscience and Political Agency in Martin Luther and Hannah Arendt

Martin Luther’s pastoral practice of instructing consciences proves illuminating for thinking through the relationship between the conscience and political action. Specifically, Luther saw a clear and assured conscience as enabling free political action, while political tyranny operates, in part, by...

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Main Author: Laffin, Michael Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2020]
In: Political theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 21, Issue: 8, Pages: 705-722
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Luther, Martin 1483-1546 / Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975 / Conscience / Political action
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBE Anthropology
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Resistance
B Civil Disobedience
B Martin Luther
B Hannah Arendt
B Preaching
B Totalitarianism
B Conscience
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