Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church
In this volume, William Cavanaugh continues to prod and provoke his fellow Christians to reconsider their identities and loyalties given the all-encompassing claims of Christ and the church. The basic historical thesis of the book is not particularly groundbreaking or novel. Cavanaugh is one of many...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 759-761 |
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| Summary: | In this volume, William Cavanaugh continues to prod and provoke his fellow Christians to reconsider their identities and loyalties given the all-encompassing claims of Christ and the church. The basic historical thesis of the book is not particularly groundbreaking or novel. Cavanaugh is one of many scholars to identify a shift in the last five hundred years of primary identity from the religious to the political, or from the church to the nation-state. What is challenging, indeed rather revolutionary, is Cavanaugh's subsequent normative claims about how this shift has culminated in the captivity of Christians in their approaches to politics, markets, and culture., Cavanaugh is an iconoclastic writer, and few will escape his charge of idolatry in one area or another. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu102 |