Eschatology and Statecraft in Paul Ramsey

This essay traces the historical development of the relationship between eschatology and statecraft in the thought of Paul Ramsey. At the outset of his career, as exemplified in Basic Christian Ethics, Ramsey outlined a position in which the Christian doctrine of eschatology could be construed as a...

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Veröffentlicht: Sage 2008
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Jahr: 2008, Band: 21, Heft: 2, Seiten: 173-193
weitere Schlagwörter:B Paul Ramsey
B International Politics
B Public Theology
B statecraft
B just war ethic
B Eschatology
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Zusammenfassung:This essay traces the historical development of the relationship between eschatology and statecraft in the thought of Paul Ramsey. At the outset of his career, as exemplified in Basic Christian Ethics, Ramsey outlined a position in which the Christian doctrine of eschatology could be construed as a source of positive theological warrants for engagement in politics. By the end of his career Ramsey's political realism had trumped this earlier theological position on eschatology such that eschatology was seen as a permanent limiting factor that restrained what he saw as Enlightenment stained utopian Christian political schemes.
ISSN:0953-9468
Enthält:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946808094341