The Citizenship of Nowhere: A Faithful Response to Brexit
Taking as a starting point the views of certain British political theologians on the meaning of the vote for Brexit, I show how the moral and spiritual self-transcendence at the centre of the apophatic tradition can be used to critique their conservative communitarian conceptions of the common good,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2022
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Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Year: 2022, Volume: 98, Issue: 1, Pages: 123-145 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brexit
/ Apophatic theology
/ Political theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBF British Isles NBC Doctrine of God NCD Political ethics |
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| Summary: | Taking as a starting point the views of certain British political theologians on the meaning of the vote for Brexit, I show how the moral and spiritual self-transcendence at the centre of the apophatic tradition can be used to critique their conservative communitarian conceptions of the common good, dependent as they are on closed reifications of identity and belonging. I suggest that an apophatic anthropology supports a political theology that is, instead, open, inclusive, and universalist. The resources of the Christian mystical tradition point towards an embracing of the interdependence and increasing connectedness of our globalising world and the new possibilities for human flourishing it creates. I conclude by considering a negative but inclusive model of ethical citizenship, a 'citizenship of nowhere', and how this can be the basis of transformative social and political action on issues of multiculturalism and immigration. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1423 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ETL.98.1.3290285 |