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Contributors
viii
Acknowledgements
ix
General Introduction
1
(20)
PART ONE: THE DIVISION OF CHRIST'S POLITICAL BODY
Prologue to Part One
21
(56)
1 Augustine (354-430)
25
(12)
Introduction
25
(4)
Excerpt from City of God
29
(8)
2 Thomas Aquinas (1225/7-74)
37
(12)
Introduction
37
(4)
Excerpt from De regimine (De regno)
41
(8)
3 Alighieri Dante (1265-1321)
49
(15)
Introduction
49
(4)
Excerpt from De monarchia
53
(11)
4 Martin Luther (1483-1546)
64
(13)
Introduction
64
(4)
Excerpts from 'Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation', and 'On the Limits of Secular Authority'
68
(9)
PART TWO: THE LEGITIMATION OF SOVEREIGN POWER
Prologue to Part Two
77
(42)
5 Niccolņ Machiavelli (1469-1527)
81
(8)
Introduction
81
(3)
Excerpt from Discourses on Livy
84
(5)
6 King James VI/I (1566-1625)
89
(13)
Introduction
89
(4)
Excerpt from The True Law of Free Monarchies
93
(9)
7 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1674)
102
(17)
Introduction
102
(5)
Excerpt from Leviathan
107
(12)
PART THREE: RELIGION IN DEMOCRATIC CULTURE
Prologue to Part Three
119
(30)
8 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78)
123
(14)
Introduction
123
(4)
Excerpt from Social Contract
127
(10)
9 Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
137
(12)
Introduction
137
(4)
Excerpt from Common Sense
141
(8)
10 Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59)
149
(12)
Introduction
149
(4)
Excerpt from Democracy in America
153
(8)
11 Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)
161
(12)
Introduction
161
(4)
Excerpt from Considerations on France
165
(8)
PART FOUR: POLITICS AFTER RELIGION
Prologue to Part Four
173
(4)
12 Karl Marx (1818-83)
177
(13)
Introduction
177
(4)
Excerpt from the Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'
181
(9)
13 Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)
190
(13)
Introduction
190
(4)
Excerpt from Political Theology
194
(9)
14 Vladimir I. Lenin (1870-1924) and Simone Weil (1909-43)
203
(16)
Introduction
203
(4)
'Socialism and Religion' by Lenin
207
(3)
Excerpt from The Need for Roots by Weil
210
(9)
PART FIVE: THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Prologue to Part Five
219
(6)
15 John Milbank
Liberality versus Liberalism
225
(12)
16 Slavoj ˇi˛ek
Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief
237
(6)
17 Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid
Graffiti on the Walls of the Cathedral of Buenos Aires: Doing Theology, Love and Politics at the Margins
243
(16)
18 Charles Taylor
The Moral Order: The Transition to Political Modernity
259
(9)
19 Jürgen Manemann
The Depoliticization of God as a Challenge for Political Theology
268
(14)
Primary Sources
282
(1)
Index of Names
283
(3)
Index of Subjects
286
(6)
Index of Scriptural References
292
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