English public theology: a reformation response to the crisis of natural rights

"This study commends the public theology of the English Reformation as a fruitful though neglected resource for a critical analysis of the contradictions of freedom that riddle late-modern liberal democracies and a constructive response to them. Drawn from the key legal, liturgical, homiletic a...

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1. Verfasser: O'Donovan, Joan Lockwood 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York T&T Clark 2023
Schriftenreihe:T&T Clark enquiries in theological ethics
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Zusammenfassung:"This study commends the public theology of the English Reformation as a fruitful though neglected resource for a critical analysis of the contradictions of freedom that riddle late-modern liberal democracies and a constructive response to them. Drawn from the key legal, liturgical, homiletic and confessional elements of the English Reformation, this foundational Anglican tradition provides a theological vantage point for understanding current moral and political impasses in the western legacy of natural rights. The extensive development of natural rights in pre-modern scholastic theory and practice and its continuity with theoretical development from the seventeenth century onward make the Reformers’ criticisms of scholastic moral, political, and ecclesial thought germane to identifying the problematic features of the prevailing modern tradition and to furnishing a theological alternative to them. These problematic features are: an individualistic and voluntarist conception of moral agency, a regulative and juridical orientation to human relationships, and an anthropocentric concentration on human rather than on divine right, judgement, and freedom. The humanity they portray, detached from its created ordering to Christological perfection and bound within a self-enclosed ethical and political self-understanding, is effectively countered by the English reformers’ presentation of the salvation of creation in Christ, faith working through love, the spiritual fellowship of the church, and the provisional character of political jurisdiction."
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (328 Seiten)
ISBN:9780567712530
9780567712523
9780567712554
DOI:10.5040/9780567712530

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