Deity and Domination: Images of God and the State in the 19th and 20th Centuries

ISBN-13: 9780415011716 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 336 str.

David Nicholls;David Nicholls

Opis

Explores the relation between Christianity and politics, examines the analogy between divine and civil government and considers what images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Welfare God and Paternal State I; Chapter 3 Welfare God and paternal state II; Chapter 4 No King But Caesar: Sovereign God and Total State; Chapter 5 Federal Politics and Finite God: Images of God in United States Theology; Chapter 6 Impassible God and Autarkic State; Chapter 7 Atheists and anarchists; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

O autorze

David Nicholls