The transcendence of desire : a theology of political agency / Tom James, David True.
James, Tom, author.; True, David, author.
2023
BT83.59
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Title
The transcendence of desire : a theology of political agency / Tom James, David True.
Author
James, Tom, author.
ISBN
9783031462276 (electronic bk.)
3031462270 (electronic bk.)
3031462262
9783031462269
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46227-6
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 252 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-46227-6 doi
Call Number
BT83.59
Dewey Decimal Classification
261.7
Summary
The secular age is not a smooth, untroubled process of accumulation and advance but an uneven and unpredictable series of clashes of interest. Charles Taylors immanent frame cannot be construed merely as a phenomenon within religion and culture but urgently needs to be understood in political and economic termsi.e., as a class project. The failure of the secular, vividly displayed in the crumbling legitimacy of global institutions and in the spectacle of police violence, both calls for and makes possible a renewal of political agency. Tom James and David True argue that a theology of the cross has a distinctive potential today: it can pierce the sacred aura of normalcy around the consensual anti-politics of the neoliberal order so that a vision of a world beyond todays racialized capitalism can emerge. But they contend that we dont need to forsake the emancipatory aims of modernity nor retreat to local communities. As an alternative to these weak strategies, they offer a constructive and cruciform account of political agency that includes both prophetic resistance and practical wisdom, each embedded in contemporary struggles for freedom that, they argue, embody divine desire for a common world. Tom James is a pastor in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of In Face of Reality: The Constructive Theology of Gordon D. Kaufman (2014) and co-author of A Philosophy of Christian Materialism (2015). David True is a visiting scholar at Pfeiffer University and is co-editor of the journal Political Theology. He is the co-editor of Paradoxical Virtue: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition (2020) and the editor of Prophecy in a Secular Age: An Introduction (2021). .
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True, David, author.
Series
New approaches to religion and power.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Argument
Chapter 2: Secularism and the Death of Politics
Our Secular Age
The Neoliberal Order
Racial Capitalism and Black Radicalism
Mining the Contradictions: The Future of the Act
Chapter 3: Can Political Agency Be Renewed?
Action and Its Substitutes
Conditions of Action
A Virtue and an End
Political Agency, Revolution, and the Social
Chapter 4: Theological Imagination and the Revival of Politics: Crisis and Critique
Theology and the Crises of Capitalism

Critique and the Shaping of the New
Chapter 5: Transcendence in a Secular Age: Divine Desire
Transcendence as Divine Desire
Cruciform Desire
The Cross Is Not Empty
Chapter 6: Prophecy, Power, and the Problem of Love
Politics, Power, and Prophecy
Love as Eros
The Permanence of Desire
Chapter 7: Works of Love: Revolution and Judgment
Revolutionary Strategy: The Death and Resurrection of the Party
Fragilized Goods and Passionate Attachments
Jesus, the Common One
Sites of Transcendence: Two Case Studies

Chapter 8: Postscript: The Church, Distanced and Desiring
Contingency and Denial
Partisan Devotions, Defenses, and Denials
Postcapitalist Desire and the Way of Repentance
The Gift of Prophecy and Acts of Testimony
Bibliography
Index

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