The transcendence of desire : a theology of political agency

The transcendence of desire : a theology of political agency / Tom James, David True.

The secular age is not a smooth, untroubled process of accumulation and advance but an uneven and unpredictable series of clashes of interest. Charles Taylors immanent frame cannot be construed merely as a phenomenon within religion and culture but urgently needs to be understood in political and ec...

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Main Authors: James, Tom (Author), True, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Series:New approaches to religion and power.
Subjects:
Political theology.
Transcendence of God.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • The Argument
  • Chapter 2: Secularism and the Death of Politics
  • Our Secular Age
  • The Neoliberal Order
  • Racial Capitalism and Black Radicalism
  • Mining the Contradictions: The Future of the Act
  • Chapter 3: Can Political Agency Be Renewed?
  • Action and Its Substitutes
  • Conditions of Action
  • A Virtue and an End
  • Political Agency, Revolution, and the Social
  • Chapter 4: Theological Imagination and the Revival of Politics: Crisis and Critique
  • Theology and the Crises of Capitalism
  • Critique and the Shaping of the New
  • Chapter 5: Transcendence in a Secular Age: Divine Desire
  • Transcendence as Divine Desire
  • Cruciform Desire
  • The Cross Is Not Empty
  • Chapter 6: Prophecy, Power, and the Problem of Love
  • Politics, Power, and Prophecy
  • Love as Eros
  • The Permanence of Desire
  • Chapter 7: Works of Love: Revolution and Judgment
  • Revolutionary Strategy: The Death and Resurrection of the Party
  • Fragilized Goods and Passionate Attachments
  • Jesus, the Common One
  • Sites of Transcendence: Two Case Studies
  • Chapter 8: Postscript: The Church, Distanced and Desiring
  • Contingency and Denial
  • Partisan Devotions, Defenses, and Denials
  • Postcapitalist Desire and the Way of Repentance
  • The Gift of Prophecy and Acts of Testimony
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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