Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Essays and Sermons on Eschatology, Ethics, and Politics
Ebook
In this volume, Elizabeth Phillips brings together scholarly essays on eschatology, ethics, and politics, as well as a selection of sermons preached in the chapels of the University of Cambridge arising from that scholarly work. These essays and sermons explore themes ranging from ethnography to Anabaptism and Christian Zionism to Afro-pessimism. Drawing on a wide range of authors from Flannery O'Conner and Herbert McCabe to James Cone and M. Shawn Copeland, this collection provides insight into the fields of Christian ethics and political theology, as well as ethnography and homiletics. Phillips challenges theologians to interdisciplinarity in their work, and to keep historical and traditional sources in conversation with contemporary sources from critical and liberative perspectives. She challenges Christians to engage in apocalyptic practices which name and resist the false pretenses of the political status quo. And she challenges preachers to call their congregations to moral and political faithfulness, opening up possibilities beyond both the squeamish evasion of politics in some preaching traditions and the didactic political partisanship of others.
“With historical nuance, theological fidelity, and homiletical grace, Elizabeth Phillips makes an indelible contribution to the political theology of apocalypse. Apocalyptic Theopolitics ranges from Augustine to Afro-pessimism and from Lent to All Hallows Eve, teaching the crucial emancipation, in the face of oppression and catastrophe, of hope from optimism.”
—Catherine Keller, Drew University
“Elizabeth Phillips is one of the English-speaking world’s wisest guides through the thickets of political theology. Employing both essays and sermons, expertly ranging across Augustine and Anabaptism, Christian Zionism and Flannery O’Connor, this volume illustrates how eschatology, properly understood and practiced, is not a fringe concern but is at the heart of Christian political witness. Clear, insightful, interdisciplinary, and always attentive to lived Christian practice, this book is a joy to read.”
—William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University
- Title: Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Essays and Sermons on Eschatology, Ethics, and Politics
- Author: Elizabeth Phillips
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725290280, 9781725290266, 9781725290273, 1725290286, 172529026X, 1725290278
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725290280
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-11-12T21:35:29Z
Elizabeth Phillips is a Public Engagement Fellow at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge, UK. She is author of Political Theology: A Guide for the Perplexed (2012), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology (2015) and T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology (2017).