Truth and Politics : A Theological Comparison of Joseph Ratzinger and John Milbank

Peter Samuel Kucer

ISBN 10: 0800699963 / ISBN 13: 9780800699963

Published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers Aug 2014, 2014

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Neuware - One of the perennial questions in political theology is how the concept of truth is defined and how such is grounded theologically. This book tackles this 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Truth and Politics : A Theological Comparison of Joseph Ratzinger and John Milbank
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers Aug 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800699963
• ISBN 13: 9780800699963
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 16D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 400 grams

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Synopsis

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 Ratzingers theology is oriented in such a way that it maintains a provisional openness with regard to political formsthat theology and politics, while interconnected, do not demand commitment to a singular form of political modelin contrast to Milbanks work, which subscribes to a particular pattern of church and politics.

About the Author

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 PhD in systematic theology at the Catholic University of America.