Matthew A. Tapie teaches Christian ethics and Catholic social teaching at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Daniel Wade McClain is the director of program operations for graduate theological studies at Loyola University Maryland, and a former president of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion.
Description
Foreword - Stephen E. Fowl; Introduction - Matthew A. Tapie and Daniel Wade McClain; 1. Empire and Enemies: Rereading Lament as a Political Act - Rebekah Eklund; 2. The Politics of Friendship in the Gospel of John - Peter Dula; 3. "Before the Eyes of Their Own God": Susanna, Rape Law, and Testimony in Augustine's City of God - Melanie Webb; 4. The Politics of Fasting in Basil of Caesarea - Mark DelCoinano; 5. Contemplating Genesis 1 as a Political Act in Late Antiquity - Daniel Wade McClain; 6. The Apocalyptic Figure of Francis's Stigmatized Body: The Politics of Scripture in Bonaventure's Meditative Treatises - Travis E. Ables; 7. "For He Is Our Peace": Thomas Aquinas on Christ as Cause of Peace in the City of the Saints - Matthew A. Tapie; 8. War and the Ethics of Evangelization: The Great Commission in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Political Thought - David Lantigua; 9. The Slanted Page: Shakespeare and Biblical Anarchy - Anthony Baker; 10. lnhabiting Scripture: Wesley's Theopolitical Reading of the Bible - D. Stephen Long; 11. Ressourcement and Resistance: La nouvelle theologie, the Bible, and the Fathers against Fascism - Kevin L. Hughes; 12. The Political Use of Scripture in the Barmen Declaration - Susannah Ticciati; 13. The End of Sacrifice: John Howard Yoder's Critique of Capital Punishment - John Nugent; 14. A Broken Body Reads Mark - Craig Hovey.