Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 374 g
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 374 g
Reihe: Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
ISBN: 978-0-19-826933-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world, but despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian theological perspective. Song discusses the different aspects and interpretations of liberalism with reference to the critiques of three twentieth-century theologians: the American Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr on the liberal progressivist philosophy of history; the lesser-known
Canadian George Grant on the threat of technology to fundamental liberal values, as articulated in the recent work of John Rawls; and the French Thomist Jacques Maritain on the defence of political pluralism. Further to this, Song explores the implications of this political theology for the issues
in fundamental constitutional theory raised by a bill of rights and judicial review of legislation, and concludes with an account of the critical but supportive stance of liberalism Christian theology should take.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate students and scholars of political and social theology, and the philosophy of religion, political theorists, those interested in liberalism and its critics.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Theologie und die Wissenschaften
