Christ, History and Apocalyptic by Nathan R Kerr
This book offers a comprehensive reflection on what it means that Christians claim that Jesus is Lord by engaging in a defense of Christian apocalyptic as the criterion for evaluating the truth of history and of history's relation to the transcendent political reality that theology calls the Kingdom of God. The heart of this work comprises an original genealogical analysis of twentieth-century theological encounters with the modern historicist problematic through a series of critical engagements with the work of Ernst Troeltsch, Karl Barth, Stanley Hauerwas, and John Howard Yoder. Bringing these thinkers into conversation at key points with the work of Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, John Milbank, and Michel de Certeau, among others, this genealogy analyzes and exposes the ideologically Constantinian assumptions shared by both modern liberal and contemporary post-liberal accounts of Christian politics and mission. On the basis of a rereading of John Howard Yoder's place within this genealogy, the author outlines an alternative apocalyptic historicism, which conceives the work of Christian politics as a mode of subversive, missionary encounter between church and world. The result is a profoundly original vision of history that at once calls for and is empowered by a Christian apocalyptic politics, in which the ideologically reductionist concerns for political effectiveness and productivity are surpassed by way of a missionary praxis of subversion and liberation rooted in liturgy and doxology.-
Worship or Suicide
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A Spreading and Abiding Hope
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Between the Icon and the Idol
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Compassionate Justice
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The Borders of Baptism
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The Fullness of Time in a Flat World
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Redeeming the Broken Body
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Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision
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The Politics of Yahweh
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The Death of Secular Messianism
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The Politics of Practical Reason
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Everything Is Sacred
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Seek the Peace of the City
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Messianic Political Theology and Diaspora Ethics
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Solidarity with the World
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The Architectonics of Hope
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Against Empire
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Security After Christendom
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Toward an Anabaptist Political Theology
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Intercommunal Ecclesiology
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Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age
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Divinations
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Between Babel and Beast
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The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission
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Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary
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Chosen Nation
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Apocalyptic Theopolitics
Kerr, Nathan R.: - Nathan R. Kerr is Assistant Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of the forthcoming Exodus, Exile, and Ecclesia (Cascade Books).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781498211369 |
| ISBN 10 | 1498211364 |
| Title | Christ, History and Apocalyptic |
| Author | Nathan R Kerr |
| Series | Theopolitical Visions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Wipf & Stock Publishers |
| Year published | 2008-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 222 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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