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Messianic Political Theology and Diaspora Ethics: Essays in Exile
Messianic Political Theology and Diaspora Ethics: Essays in Exile
Messianic Political Theology and Diaspora Ethics: Essays in Exile
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Political theology as a normative discourse has been controversial not only for secular political philosophers who are especially suspicious of messianic claims but also for Jewish and Christian thinkers who differ widely on its meaning. These essays mount an argument for a "Messianic Political Theology" rooted in an interpretation of biblical (especially Pauline), Augustinian, and Radical Reformation readings of messianism as a thoroughly political and theological vision that gives rise to what the author calls "Diaspora Ethics." In conversation also with Platonic, Jewish, and Continental thinkers, Kroeker argues for an exilic practice of political ethics in which the secular is built up theologically "from below" in the form of public service that flows from messianic political worship. Such a "weak messianic power" practiced by the messianic body inhabits an apocalyptic political economy in which the mystery of love and the mystery of evil are agonistically unveiled together in the power of the cross--not as an instrument of domination but in the form of the servant. This is not simply a matter of "pacifism" but of a messianic posture rooted in the renunciation of possessive desire that pertains to all aspects of everyday human life in the household (oikos), the academy, and the polis.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherCascade Books
Release dateNov 9, 2017
ISBN9781532642746
Messianic Political Theology and Diaspora Ethics: Essays in Exile
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P. Travis Kroeker

P. Travis Kroeker is Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is the author of Christian Ethics and Political Economy in North America and coauthor (with Bruce Ward) of Remembering the End: Dostoevsky as Prophet to Modernity. He is currently working on another book extending this reading of messianic political theology through the interpretation of a range of Christian and non-Christian literary works.

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