Weird John Brown : divine violence and the limits of ethics /

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, dr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Ted A., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Colección:Encountering traditions.
Temas:
Brown, John, > 1800-1859 > Ethics.
Brown, John, > 1800-1859.
Political violence > Moral and ethical aspects.
Political violence > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Slavery > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Political theology.
Ethics, Modern.
Violence politique > Aspect moral.
Violence politique > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Théologie politique.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Ethics.
Slavery > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The touchstone
  • The fate of law
  • Divine violence as the relief of law
  • The higher law
  • The politics of pardon
  • Not yet the end.

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