The Mystical as Political - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mystical as Political write by Aristotle Papanikolaou. This book was released on 2012-10-30. The Mystical as Political available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology grounded in the principle of divine-human communion must be one that unequivocally endorses a political community that is democratic in a way that structures itself around the modern liberal principles of freedom of religion, the protection of human rights, and church-state separation. Papanikolaou hopes to forge a non-radical Orthodox political theology that extends beyond a reflexive opposition to the West and a nostalgic return to a Byzantine-like unified political-religious culture. His exploration is prompted by two trends: the fall of communism in traditionally Orthodox countries has revealed an unpreparedness on the part of Orthodox Christianity to address the question of political theology in a way that is consistent with its core axiom of theosis; and recent Christian political theology, some of it evoking the notion of “deification,” has been critical of liberal democracy, implying a mutual incompatibility between a Christian worldview and that of modern liberal democracy. The first comprehensive treatment from an Orthodox theological perspective of the issue of the compatibility between Orthodoxy and liberal democracy, Papanikolaou’s is an affirmation that Orthodox support for liberal forms of democracy is justified within the framework of Orthodox understandings of God and the human person. His overtly theological approach shows that the basic principles of liberal democracy are not tied exclusively to the language and categories of Enlightenment philosophy and, so, are not inherently secular.
A Passion for God
A Passion for God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Passion for God write by Johann Baptist Metz. This book was released on 1998. A Passion for God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of Metz's writings of the last fifteen years, never before published in English, on the subject of the church in the world.
Between the 'Mysticism of Politics' and the 'Politics of Mysticism'
Between the 'Mysticism of Politics' and the 'Politics of Mysticism' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between the 'Mysticism of Politics' and the 'Politics of Mysticism' write by David Ranson. This book was released on 2013-08-31. Between the 'Mysticism of Politics' and the 'Politics of Mysticism' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the Politics of Mysticism and the Mysticism of Politics traces the dialectic of 'the mystical' and the political' from both a theological and an historical perspective. It presents the dialectic as a hermeneutic for the rise of the new ecclesial communities within the Roman Catholic Tradition and suggests it as the framework by which a trajectory for Christian holiness might emerge in the 21st century.
Caliphate Redefined
Caliphate Redefined - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caliphate Redefined write by Hüseyin Yılmaz. This book was released on 2018-01-08. Caliphate Redefined available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed’s political authority. In this book, Hüseyin Yılmaz traces how a new conception of the caliphate emerged under the Ottomans, who redefined the caliph as at once a ruler, a spiritual guide, and a lawmaker corresponding to the prophet’s three natures. Challenging conventional narratives that portray the Ottoman caliphate as a fading relic of medieval Islamic law, Yılmaz offers a novel interpretation of authority, sovereignty, and imperial ideology by examining how Ottoman political discourse led to the mystification of Muslim political ideals and redefined the caliphate. He illuminates how Ottoman Sufis reimagined the caliphate as a manifestation and extension of cosmic divine governance. The Ottoman Empire arose in Western Anatolia and the Balkans, where charismatic Sufi leaders were perceived to be God’s deputies on earth. Yılmaz traces how Ottoman rulers, in alliance with an increasingly powerful Sufi establishment, continuously refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority, and how the caliphate itself reemerged as a moral paradigm that shaped early modern Muslim empires. A masterful work of scholarship, Caliphate Redefined is the first comprehensive study of premodern Ottoman political thought to offer an extensive analysis of a wealth of previously unstudied texts in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish.
The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt
The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt write by Montserrat Herrero. This book was released on 2015-08-06. The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Carl Schmitt is a key figure in modern political thought, but discussion of his work often focuses upon specific elements or themes within his texts. This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of Carl Schmitt’s discourse and provides a new perspective on his contribution, presenting the idea of Nomos of the Earth as the key idea that organizes his political and legal discourse This book creates a ‘reverse genealogy’ of Schmitt’s theoretical system, starting from his legal and political concept of nomos so as to reconstruct his understanding of order. It connects the different topics the Carl Schmitt developed along his intellectual trajectory, which have generally been approached in separate ways by scholars: the legal theory, the concept of the political, the theory of international relations and political theology. The text considers the whole of Carl Schmitt’s work including writings that have been previously unknown to the English speaking academy; old journals with just three or four pages, newspaper articles, manuscripts of conferences, and Festschrifts.Itprovides a balanced examination of the whole complex of Carl Schmitt’s political discourse.
