A new generation of theologians is emerging in the anglo-saxon world. Catholics, Anglo-catholics or Methodists, they develop an alternative which rejects all celebrations of the secular reason.
This book explores the origin and the themes of post-liberal political theology and presents fifteen scholars who bring fresh perspectives. From the « post-modern critical
Augustinianism » of the Radical Orthodoxy project to the
Communio circles or
Ressourcement thomism, a new political theology is yet born.
Denis Sureau is the author of essays about Thomas Aquinas and politics. He is Editor-in-Chief of the French catholic Editions de L'Homme Nouveau.
Book summary
Introduction
Chapter I - The political theologies of the twentieth century
The Schmitt-Peterson debate
Action Française and Neo-Thomisms
From "Political Theology" to "Liberation Theology"
Henri de Lubac at the turn of contemporary theology
Chapter 2 - The Church as Communion: After Vatican II
David Schindler or how to be American, anti-liberal, and theologian of communion
Tracey Rowland or postmodern Augustinian Thomism
Aidan Nichols or the revival of Christianity
Chapter 3 - Morality: the wind rises
Alasdair MacIntyre or revolutionary Aristotelianism
Stanley Hauerwas or the Kingdom of Peace
John Porter or natural law rediscovered
Therese Lysaught or the search for a Christian bioethics
Chapter 4 - Radical Orthodoxy: the Cambridge revolution
John Milbank or beyond secular reason
Catherine Pickstock or how an Anglican theologian rethinks the truth about the Mass.
Chapter 5 - Exercises of theopolitical imagination
John Howard Yoder or the politics of Jesus
Oliver O'Donovan or the Biblical roots of politics
William Cavanaugh or Eucharistic anarchy
Emmanuel Katongole or the new African theopolitics
Stephen Long or theological critique of capitalism
Daniel Bell or to think of God in the city after the end of history
Appendix: European Cousins