A POLITICS OF GRACE

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Dr Frederiek Depoortere is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the Faculty of Theology K.U.Leuven (Belgium) and a member of the research group Theology in a Postmodern Context.Stephan van Erp is Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies KU Leuven BelgiumChristiane Alpers is Research Fellow at the Catholic University of EichstĄttIngolstadt Germany.Highlights the particular contribution of Schillebeeckxs theology of grace to ongoing debates about the political significance of theological discussions about nature and graceExamines public theology Radical Orthodoxy and postliberal Protestantism and their role in the wider societys political problemsOutlines the role of public and political theologies in the diversified postChristendom societiesChristiane Alpers is Research Fellow at the Catholic University of EichstĄttIngolstadt GermanyChristiane Alpers discusses the contribution and role Christian theology plays in developing of the democratic life in postChristendom societies. She discusses the three major approaches to this debate public theology Radical Orthodoxy and postliberal Protestantism in order to illustrate the shared assumption that such an enhancement should be understood in terms of solving existing political problems. The volume builds on and combines public theologys aspiration to craft a nontriumphant political theology fit for a postChristendom context Radical Orthodoxys hesitancy to embrace secularism as neutral centre for present democracies: as well as postliberalisms Christocentric outlook. Alpers engages with a wide variety of thinkers such as John Milbank Graham Ward John Howard Yoder Kathryn Tanner and Edward Schillebeeckx: to suggest that a political theology in the postChristendom context could build on the faith that Christ alone has redeemed the whole world.Examines Edward Schillebeeckxs Christology in order to offer an alternative to public theology Radical Orthodoxy and postliberal Protestantism: and answer the question on how Christian theology can enhance the political life of postChristendom societies.AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1Public Theology: Solutions for Political Problems in postChristendom SocietiesChapter 2Radical Orthodoxy: A Christian Social Order as Solution to the Political Problems of Post Christendom SocietiesChapter 3Postliberal Christocentrisms: A nonDominating Christianity as Principled Solution to the Problem of ChristendomChapter 4Edward Schillebeeckxs Christology of Redemption: A Realistic Grace Optimism despite Political ProblemsChapter 5Without Promise: A nonDominating Political Theology for postChristendom SocietiesConclusionBibliographyIndexAlpers disrupts received oppositions between church and world by recognizing both grace already given and the distorting power of sin. She provocatively urges Christians not to take on Gods work for themselves but instead to recognize

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