William Johnson Everett

God's Federal Republic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Biblical religion is driven by a longing for God's ultimate order of justice and peace. Most of this longing is steeped in the patriarchal symbols of kingship, monarchs, lords, fathers, and princes. This symbolism came to bind European churches to the legitimation of monarchies and empires for over a millennium. The American and now global experiment separated the churches, with their kingdom language, from government dedicated to democratic, republican, and federal constitutional order. Religious efforts to guide and critique government have subsequently suffered from political irrelevance or theocratic nationalism. Everett lifts up the biblical and classical origins of our present republican experiment to construct a theological position and religious symbolism that can imaginatively engage our present public life with a contemporary language permeated with a transcendent vision.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781532687167
• ISBN-10: 1532687168
• Artikelnr.: 58031610

Autorenporträt

William Johnson Everett has taught Christian social ethics in theological schools in the US, Germany, India, and South Africa. Many of his writings, including God's Federal Republic (1987) and The Politics of Worship (1997), have focused on the relation of ethics to worship. His round communion tables can be found at Boston University and Yale Divinity School. He lives in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina and journals regularly at WilliamEverett.com.