Description: This book addresses the apparent dislocation of the church and theology from the socio-cultural mainstream and attempts to recover its counterpolitical voice. It argues that early in ecclesiastical history, the tradition's founding and constituent principles were betrayed by a complicity with the prevailing politics of sovereignty that has continued to this day. Following the contours of contemporary theologians who explain the dislocation in terms of a fall in early modernity, an initial subsumption of transcendence by sovereignty is proposed. The genealogy of this fall is then...
Description: This book addresses the apparent dislocation of the church and theology from the socio-cultural mainstream and attempts to recover its co...
About the Contributor(s): Roger Haydon Mitchell co-directs 2MT, a charitable trust that helps manage change. He is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion in the University of Lancaster and the external partnerships coordinator of the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Theology and the author of the book Church, Gospel and Empire: How the Politics of Sovereignty Impregnated the West (2011).
About the Contributor(s): Roger Haydon Mitchell co-directs 2MT, a charitable trust that helps manage change. He is an honorary research fellow in ...
