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On the "meaning" of politics
Title
On the "meaning" of politics / Christos Yannaras ; translated to English by Jonathan Cole.
ISBN
1000968448
1000968480
1003410863
9781000968446
9781000968484
9781003410867
1032493143
9781032493145
9781032532073
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 83 pages).
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Notes
"Routledge Focus."
In English, translated from the original Greek.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2023).
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Summary
"This book offers a concise, yet provocative, summation of Christos Yannaras' long reflection on the meaning of politics. It provides vital clarification on Yannaras' conception and understanding of politics and his interpretation of its historical development in the Western and Eastern theological/civilisational traditions. The book critiques the Western (Christian) tradition of political thought and praxis, namely its individualistic epistemology, its utilitarian political organisation, its obsession with rationalistic efficiency, and its 'religionized' Christianity with all the destructive ideologies flowing therefrom. It aims to recover and counterpose a Greco-Christian conception and practice of politics based on communion, the ecclesia, truth as a collective and common 'contest' or 'struggle' to discover, reveal and manifest cosmic reality and an ontological vision of humans living in harmony with the ornamental order of the universe. With a foreword by Rowan Williams, this is a highly original and significant mediation on the meaning of politics that will be of interest to both political theologians and political philosophers"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Giannaras, Chrēstos, 1935- On the "meaning" of politics Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Transforming political theologies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Rowan Williams
Introduction / Jonathan Cole
Reverence and justice
Necessity and freedom
Forms of organized co-existence
Cohesion through coercion
Leitourgima's degeneration into office
Ratio dethrones authority
The desire for salvation dethrones ratio
The ecclesia and religion : incompatible modes of existence
When truth becomes the priority
Politics : contest or art?
Shared need as shared truth
The pre-political character of freedom
The alignment of the ecclesia of the demos and the ecclesia of the believers
The exercise of authority as responsible service
The common roots of democracy, community, and the parish
The political consequences of the ecclesia's religionization
Religious totalitarianism
Ideology : the alienation of truth into accuracy
Societas : the alienation of communion into a partnership
Religious salvation and political individualism
Materialistic and idealistic utilitarianism
Politics is not the aim of the Ecclesia; The Ecclesia itself is the aim of politics
Augustine is Europe
Political forms of religious individualism
The ecclesia's alienation in confessionalism
A Trinitarian archetype of politics
Comprehension is not knowledge.
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