The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology

by Oliver O'Donovan

Book Overview

Political theology as we know it today reacts against the attempt to insulate theology from political theory which has generally characterised the modern era. But its own intellectual parentage in the idealist historicism of the nineteenth century has left it still entrammelled in the suspicions and inhibitions from which it has wanted to break free. Oliver O'Donovan contends that to pass beyond suspicion and totalised criticism of politics and to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521665167
• ISBN13: 9780521665162
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"