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Informationen zum Autor Peter M. Scott is Senior Lecturer in Christian Social Thought and Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Theology, Ideology and Liberation (1994) and A Political Theology of Nature (2003). He is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton and the Manchester Centre for Public Theology, and is a director of the Manchester Research Institute for Religion and Civil Society. William T. Cavanaugh is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota, USA. He is the author of Torture and Eucharist (Blackwell, 1998) and Theopolitical Imagination (2003). Klappentext Written by a team of international experts, this Companion provides the first comprehensive survey and interpretation of contemporary Christian political theology. The Companion comprises 35 freshly commissioned essays that embody the best current thinking in the field. These essays: explore the political aspects of Christian sources such as scripture and liturgy consider the interface of theology with political ideologies, including the contribution of theology to feminist, ecological, black, and pacifist movements assess the contribution of major political theologians and theological movements indicate how central Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and atonement have politics embedded within them show how theology impacts upon present-day political issues. The contributors are drawn from various traditions of political theology, but all of them demonstrate that Christian theology is inherently political, and that politics is properly illuminated by Christian perspectives. Zusammenfassung Written by a team of international experts! drawn from various traditions of political theology! this outstanding resource brings together 35 newly-commissioned essays in the field. Demonstrates that Christian theology is inherently political and shows how theology impacts on present-day political issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors viii Introduction 1 William T. Cavanaugh and Peter Scott Part I Traditioned Resources: Scripture, Traditions, Liturgy 5 1 Scripture: Old Testament 7 Walter Brueggemann 2 Scripture: New Testament 21 Christopher Rowland 3 Augustine 35 Jean Bethke Elshtain 4 Aquinas 48 Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt 5 The Reformation 62 Andrew Bradstock 6 Liturgy 76 Bernd Wannenwetsch Part II Political Theologies: Survey 91 7 Eastern Orthodox Thought 93 Michael Plekon 8 Carl Schmitt 107 Michael Hollerich 9 Karl Barth 123 Haddon Willmer 10 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 136 Stanley Hauerwas 11 John Courtney Murray 150 Michael J. Baxter 12 William Temple 165 Alan M. Suggate 13 Reinhold Niebuhr180 William Werpehowski 14 Feminist Theology, Southern 194 Kwok Pui-lan 15 Feminist Theology, Northern 210 Elaine Graham 16 Jürgen Moltmann 227 Nicholas Adams 17 Johann Baptist Metz 241 J. Matthew Ashley 18 Political Theologies in Asia 256 Aloysius Pieris 19 Black Political Theologies 271 M. Shawn Copeland 20 Gustavo Gutiérrez 288 Roberto S. Goizueta 21 Stanley Hauerwas 302 R. R. Reno Part III Constructive Political Theology 317 22 Trinity 319 Kathryn Tanner 23 Creation 333 Peter Scott 24 Christology 348 Raymund Schwager 25 Atonement 363 Timothy J. Gorringe 26 Spirit 377 Ma...
