The Problem with Grace – Reconfiguring Political Theology Lloyd Paperback

The Problem with GraceReconfiguring Political Theology\nAuthor(s): Vincent Lloyd\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804768849, 978-0804768849\nSynopsis\nThis book develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology, taking that burgeoning field in a new direction. With his bold suggestion that political philosophy must begin with political theology, Vincent Lloyd investigates a series of religious concepts such as love, faith, liturgy, and revelation and explores their political relevance by extracting them from their Christian theological context while refusing to reduce them to secular terms. He assembles an unusual canon of thinkers \""too Jewish to be Christian and too Christian to be Jewish\""Simone Weil, James Baldwin, Franz Kafka, and Gillian Roseto aid him in his explorations.\n\n Unique in its serious attention to both theological writing about politics and the work of academic philos.