Liturgical Power
"Heron's book offers a magisterial reconstruction of the Christian idea of government. Liturgical Power makes a crucially important intervention into the emerging field of political theology." -- --Miguel Vatter University of New South Wales "Liturgical Power makes a significant contribution to liturgical studies through its ability to illuminate Agamben's significant work on the subject in his more recent writings. The book demonstrates first-rate scholarship in that it takes up a significant philological discussion that is pursued across centuries and various sources." -- --Colby Dickinson Loyola University Chicago
Is Christianity exclusively a religious phenomenon, which must separate itself from all things political, or do its concepts actually underpin secular politics? To this question, which animated the twentieth-century debate on political theology, Liturgical Power advances a third alternative. Les mer
This transformation in the idea of politics precipitates in turn a concurrent shift in the organization of power; an organization whose determining principle, Heron contends, is liturgy-understood in the broad sense as "public service." Whereas until now only liturgy's acclamatory dimension has made the concept available for political theory, Heron positions it more broadly as a technique of governance. What Christianity has bequeathed to political thought and forms, he argues, is thus a paradoxical technology of power that is grounded uniquely in service.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Fordham University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780823278688
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"Heron's book offers a magisterial reconstruction of the Christian idea of government. Liturgical Power makes a crucially important intervention into the emerging field of political theology." -- --Miguel Vatter University of New South Wales "Liturgical Power makes a significant contribution to liturgical studies through its ability to illuminate Agamben's significant work on the subject in his more recent writings. The book demonstrates first-rate scholarship in that it takes up a significant philological discussion that is pursued across centuries and various sources." -- --Colby Dickinson Loyola University Chicago