Catholicity Without Leviathan: Stanley Hauerwas's Perspective on the Church as an Alternative Political Community
The article brings into focus a series of political arguments of Stanley Hauerwas's theological politics and argues that these arguments are in stark contrast with the theoretical perspective of a political rule by a god-like Leviathan, an image inherited in modern and contemporary political...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Politics and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-31 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hauerwas, Stanley 1940-
/ USA
/ National state
/ Catholic church
/ Religious community
/ Christianity
/ Catholicity
/ Political movement
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church ZB Sociology ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | The article brings into focus a series of political arguments of Stanley Hauerwas's theological politics and argues that these arguments are in stark contrast with the theoretical perspective of a political rule by a god-like Leviathan, an image inherited in modern and contemporary political culture from the early modern English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. The first section focuses on Hauerwas's arguments regarding the political potential of the term Catholicity to represent an alternative to the coercive politics reinforced by the post-Enlightenment nation state. The second section proposes a reflection on the way the Church's Catholicity may be expressed politically without falling into the temptation of involving the Leviathan to sort out the issues generated by its diversity. The concluding section illustrates how Hauerwas uses his approach of a universal unity of Christians without Leviathan in his exhortation addressed to American Christians to say no to Donald Trump's version of communal unity that is rather based on total allegiance to the United States and on repressive politics. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-0491 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1755048318000500 |