キリスト教と国民国家 Christianity and the Nation-State : A Study in Political Theology

Chartier, Gary

Cambridge University Press（2023/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 325 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009344593
• DDC分類 261.7

Full Description

In Christianity and the Nation-State, Gary Chartier provocatively offers readers unexpected critical distance from some familiar ways of understanding, justifying, and navigating existing political arrangements. People in multiple societies are posing important questions about the authority and functions of the contemporary nation-state and about potential alternatives to this seemingly inescapable institution. Chartier seeks to develop a distinctive theological response to the conditions prompting these questions. Affirming liberalism and cosmopolitanism, he reflects critically on nationalism, localism, religious establishment, and theological accounts of political authority. He highlights links between sin and state power and underscores deficiencies in democratic rhetoric and theory. He rejects the idea of a global government, advocating a nonterritorial alternative he labels 'radical consociationalism. Moreover, he presents concrete suggestions for life under the rule of the state.

Contents

Introduction; 1. Created diversity; 2. State authority; 3. Social order; 4. Engaging states; Conclusion.