Making Space for Politics:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Making Space for Politics: "
Richard Brash

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1069306
Doc. No	:	LA112935
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341580‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Richard Brash
Title & Author	:	Making Space for Politics: [Article] : the Gift of Public Theology in the Work of John Webster\ Richard Brash
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Public Theology
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/3
Page No	:	301–320
Abstract	:	The theologian John Webster (d. 2016) is sometimes criticized for having little to say about politics. This article seeks to demonstrate how Webster furnishes a set of conceptual resources that provide the theological and anthropological bases for a Christian public theology, as well as the rationale for the sort of moral reasoning that will give involvement in politics its appropriate shape and content. Webster understands humanity theologically, as creatures of God. The consequence of this position means we must appreciate the (protological and eschatological) givenness of our situation, rejecting the possibility of secular space, and accepting our teleologically-oriented vocation. Webster’s theological anthropology constitutes an indirect challenge, and a clear—and ultimately more compelling—alternative to the political liberalism proposed by John Rawls. The theologian John Webster (d. 2016) is sometimes criticized for having little to say about politics. This article seeks to demonstrate how Webster furnishes a set of conceptual resources that provide the theological and anthropological bases for a Christian public theology, as well as the rationale for the sort of moral reasoning that will give involvement in politics its appropriate shape and content. Webster understands humanity theologically, as creatures of God. The consequence of this position means we must appreciate the (protological and eschatological) givenness of our situation, rejecting the possibility of secular space, and accepting our teleologically-oriented vocation. Webster’s theological anthropology constitutes an indirect challenge, and a clear—and ultimately more compelling—alternative to the political liberalism proposed by John Rawls.
Descriptor	:	conservatism
Descriptor	:	John Rawls
Descriptor	:	John Webster
Descriptor	:	liberalism
Descriptor	:	ontology
Descriptor	:	vocation
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341580‬