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The book addresses the question of the extent to which theological discourse has been and is relevant to the origins of the meanings, symbols, and realities of some instituted political practices. This relevance has historically manifested itself in the hybridisation of theological and political concepts, images, gestures, and rituals. Indeed, some divine traces could be seen as embedded in institutionalised political practices. Theopolitical figures, then, are other names for God - in the sense of negative theology - that we find in instituted practices within the political realm. The book considers five theopolitical figures: scripture, prophecy, oath, charisma, and hospitality. In the symbolic meaning of these figures, we discern some central questions for contemporary societies, among them: the unconditional character of justice, the unfeasibility of historical expectation, the stability of the given word, the idea of power as a gift, and openness to the coming other as an ethical-political imperative.
- Autor/a Montserrat Herrero
- ISBN13 9781399522892
- ISBN10 1399522892
- Pàgines 272
- Any Edició 2025
- Fecha de publicación 31/05/2025
- Idioma Anglès
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Theopolitical Figures Scripture, Prophecy, Oath, Charisma, Hospitality (Anglès)
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- Montserrat Herrero
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- Edinburgh University Press (2025)
- 9781399522892



