Political Theology and the Conflicts of Democracy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009603843)

Nicholas Norman-Krause argues, in this authoritative and sophisticated new treatment of conflict, that contestation is a basic - potentially regenerative - aspect of any flourishing democratic politics. In developing a distinctive 'agonistic theology, ' and relating the political theory of agonism to social and democratic life, the author demonstrates that the conflicts of democracy may have a beneficial significance and depend at least in part on faith traditions and communities for their successful negotiation. In making his case, he deftly examines a rich range of religious and secular literatures, whether from the thought of Augustine, Aquinas, and Stanley Cavell or from less familiar voices such as early modern jurist and political thinker Johannes Althusius and twentieth-century Catholic social philosopher Yves Simon. Liberationists including Gustavo Gutiérrez and Martin Luther King, Jr. are similarly recruited for a theological account of conflict read not just as concomitant to, but also as constitutive of, democratic living.

Author: Nicholas Norman-Krause
ISBN-10: 1009603841
ISBN-13: 9781009603843
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2025
Pages: 373
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d