Is a theologically informed vision of politics, a vision that can help the church to break out of its captivity to myths of modernity, possible? The Catholic and Radical Orthodoxy theologian William Cavanaugh believes so.
Joel Halldorf hade i tisdagens nummer av Dagen en mycket intressant artikel om myten om det religiösa våldet. Han bygger bland annat på William T. Cavanaughs bok med samma namn. Vill du se nåt mer av Cavanaughs spännande författarskap kan du exempelvis läsa Bengt Rasmussons sammanfattning av Theopolitical Imagination.
The Church is itself (or is meant to be) an ekklesia, a sphere were politics proper happens. ... Is Cavanaugh's view of the Church social and bodily enough?
Is there a way forward? For Cavanaugh the only fruitful way forward in this context is "to tap the theological resources of the Christian tradition for more radical imaginings of space and time ... around which to enact communities of solidarity and resistance."
Is a theologically informed vision of politics, a vision that can help the church to break out of its captivity to political, social, and economical myths of modernity, possible?
