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Author : David Nicholls
Release : 1989
Genre : Christianity and politics
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Book Synopsis Deity and Domination: God and government in an "Age of Reason" by : David Nicholls
Download or read book Deity and Domination: God and government in an "Age of Reason" written by David Nicholls. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Nicholls
Release : 2003-08-29
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis God and Government in an 'Age of Reason' by : David Nicholls
Download or read book God and Government in an 'Age of Reason' written by David Nicholls. This book was released on 2003-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion volume to Deity and Domination, David Nicholls broadens his examination of the relationship between religion and politics. Focusing on the images and concepts of God and the state predominant in eighteenth-century discourse, he shows how these were interrelated and reflect the language of the wider cultural contexts. Nicholls argues that the way a community pictures God will inevitably reflect (and also affect) its general understanding of authority, whether it be in state, in family or in other social institutions. Much language about God, for example, has a primarily political reference: in psalms, hymns and sermons God is called king, judge, lord, ruler and to him are ascribed might, majesty, dominion, power and sovereignty. But if political rhetoric is frequently incorporated into religious discourse, the reverse is also true: many key concepts of modern political theory are secularised theological concepts. In his consideration of this important and neglected relationship Nicholls sheds new light on religion and politics in the eighteenth century.
Author : David Nicholls
Release : 2003-09-02
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Deity and Domination by : David Nicholls
Download or read book Deity and Domination written by David Nicholls. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Religion and politics are necessarily related', declared Ronald Reagan, while addressing an ecumenical prayer breakfast of 17,000 people in Dallas. But how are they connected? Many popular images of God - King, Lord, and Judge - are essentially political, while concepts of might, majesty, dominion, and power are used of both God and the state. This ambitious and original work explores the relations between these images and their political context through the analogy between divine and civil government, and considers what images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the twentieth century. David Nicholls suggests that religious conceptions have often affected political thinking - theological rhetoric, child of political experience, may also be mother of political change. Drawing upon politics, theology, history, sociology, anthropology, and literary criticism, this important new book will be essential reading for all concerned with the relation between Christianity and politics.
Author : John Day
Release : 2013-02-14
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East by : John Day
Download or read book King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East written by John Day. This book was released on 2013-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 20 articles by leading scholars on the king and Messiah, mostly in the Old Testament, but also in the ancient Near East and post-biblical Judaism and New Testament. This volume is a major contribution to the study of kingship and messianism in the Old Testament in particular, but also in the ancient Near East more generally, and in post-biblical Judaism and the New Testament. It contains contributions by 20 scholars originally presented to the Oxford Old Testament Seminar. Part I, on the ancient Near East, has contributions by John Baines and W.G. Lambert. Part II, on the Old Testament, has essays by John Day, Gary Knoppers, Alison Salvesen, Carol Smith, Katharine Dell, Deborah Rooke, S.E. Gillingham, H.G.M. Williamson, J.G. McConville, Knut Heim, Paul Joyce, Rex Mason, John Barton and David Reimer. Part III, on post-biblical Judaism and the New Testament, is by William Horbury, George Brooke, Philip Alexander and Christopher Rowland. This noteworthy volume has many fresh insights and is essential reading for all concerned with kingship and messianism.
Author : Jonathan Leeman
Release : 2016-03-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Political Church by : Jonathan Leeman
Download or read book Political Church written by Jonathan Leeman. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of the church as an institution? What are the limits of the church's political reach? Drawing on covenant theology and the "new institutionalism" in political science, Jonathan Leeman critiques political liberalism and explores how the biblical canon informs an account of the local church as an embassy of Christ's kingdom.
