Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens

ISBN-13: 9780199253876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 416 str.

Bernd Wannenwetsch; Margaret Kohl

Opis

How does Christian ethics begin? This pioneering study explores the grammar of the Christian life as it is embodied and learned in worship as the formative experience of Christian communities. In a careful analysis of biblical and traditional conceptions of worship, Wannenwetsch demonstrates how worship challenges the deepest antagonisms in political thought and social practice. Particular worship practices (confession, preaching, praising, intercession, observance of holy days) are examined and their ethical and political significance is explored.

Recenzje

an extraordinarily impressive piece of sustained intellectual argument... the range and precision of this beautifully argued work whose range of insight and inspiration is unusually rich. It makes major contributions to the related fields of political theology and Christian ethics and demonstrates a powerful dialectical grasp of the interrelations between Christian worship and Western political theory through much of Christian history.

O autorze

Bernd Wannenwetsch is University Lecturer in Ethics in the Theology Faculty, University of Oxford.