Nationhood, providence, and witness [electronic resource] : Israel in modern theology and social theory / Carys Moseley.
Publication details: Cambridge : James Clarke, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 267 pages .)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0227901754
- 9780227901755
- Protestant churches -- Doctrines
- Religion and state
- Christian ethics
- Israel -- International status
- RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- General
- Christian ethics
- International law
- Protestant churches -- Doctrines
- Religion and state
- Israel
- Religion
- RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
- 261.7 23
- BR115.P7 M67 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Secularization and Religious Resurgencein Eschatological Perspective; 2. Reinhold Niebuhr and the Postliberals: The Fate of Liberal Protestant American Zionism; 3. Wales as a Stateless Nation: Ambivalence Concerning Recognition in Theology andSocial Theory; 4. "Hebrew" modernity as "Christian heresy":John Milbank's theology and social theory Deciphered; 5. Rowan Williams as Hegelian Political theologian: Resacralizing Secular Politics.
6. Israel and Jesus: Recognition, Election, and RedemptionConclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover.
In this eloquently argued work Carys Moseley provides an original angle of criticism on the issue of nationhood and Christianity, asserting that Christianity must relate to nationhood as the nation structure is part of God's plan for humanity. The book addresses three major themes in the field of theology and nationhood. The first is that anti-nationalism and anti-Zionism are often two sides of the same coin, and involve taking leave of a providential reading of the Bible as well as a willingness to understand history in broadly providential terms. The second is that such an approach tends to.
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