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Truth and Politics

A Theological Comparison of Joseph Ratzinger and John Milbank
  • ISBN-13: 9780800699963
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Peter Samuel Kucer
  • Price: AUD $106.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 01/08/2014
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion & politics [HRAM2]Christian theology [HRCM]
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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. Peter Samuel Kucer here traces out the critical question of the relationship of theology and politics, particularly as it intersects with ecclesiology, through a focus on the issue of the theological relationship to socialism. In this, Kucer demonstrates the competing accounts in the theologies of Joseph Ratzinger and John Milbank, arguing that Ratzinger's theology is oriented in such a way that it maintains a provisional openness with regard to political forms in contrast to Milbank's work, which subscribes to a particular pattern of church and politics.
Peter Samuel Kucer is a member of the theology faculty at the Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut and serves the diocese of Norwich, Connecticut as resident priest at Immaculate Conception Basilica. He earned a License in Sacred Theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC and a Ph.D. in systematic theology at the Catholic University of America.
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