The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of the World

by Mark Lewis Taylor

Princeton's Mark Lewis Taylor has always worked at the intersection of the political and theological. Now, in this intense and exciting work, he explores in a systematic way how those two dimensions of human reality can be conceived anew and together.

Taylor argues that the decline of political discourse, the justification of torture and preemptive war, mass incarceration, the misuse of religion to justify atrocity, and most especially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800697898
• ISBN13: 9780800697891
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"