Truth and politics
Subtitle: a theological comparison of Joseph Ratzinger and John Milbank
By: Peter Samuel Kucer
Series: Emerging scholars
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780800699963; 9781451465303
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Political theology; Truth; Christianity
Description: One of the perennial questions in political theology is how the concept of truth is defined and how such is grounded theologically. The answer to this determines, to a great degree, theological engagement with and appropriations of political systems and theological accounts of political and social order. Truth and Politics tackles this crucial question through an analysis and comparison of the thought of two of the most important contemporary Catholic and Protestant theologians, Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) and John Milbank.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ratzinger on truth as essentially uncreated; title: Ratzinger on truth as illuminated and mediated; title: Milbank on truth as created; title: Milbank on truth as illuminated and mediated; title: Ratzinger and Milbank compared; title: Ratzinger's theology of politics and Milbank's political theology.