1st Edition
Deity and Domination Images of God and the State in the 19th and 20th Centuries
By David Nicholls
Copyright 1989
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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`Religion and politics are necessarily related', declared Ronald Reagan, while addressing an ecumenical prayer breakfast of 17,000 people in Dallas. But how are they connected? Many popular images of God - King, Lord, and Judge - are essentially political, while concepts of might, majesty, dominion, and power are used of both God and the state. This ambitious and original work explores the... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Welfare God and Paternal State I; Chapter 3 Welfare God and paternal state II; Chapter 4 No King But Caesar: Sovereign God and Total State; Chapter 5 Federal Politics and Finite God: Images of God in United States Theology; Chapter 6 Impassible God and Autarkic State; Chapter 7 Atheists and anarchists; Chapter 8 Conclusion;
Biography
David Nicholls
