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Theopolitical imagination : [discovering the liturgy as a political act in an age of global consumerism] / William T. Cavanaugh.

By: Language: English Publisher: 2002Publisher: London : T & T Clark, 2003Description: 126 pISBN:
  • 0567088979
  • 0567088774
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.5 21
Other classification:
  • Cga
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A remarkable study of the radical implications of Christian believing, and a cultural critique of modern Western civilization from the perspective of a believing Catholic. Responding to Enlightenment and Postmodernist views of the social and economic realities of our time, Cavanaugh engages with contemporary concerns - consumerism, late capitalism, globalization, poverty - in a way reminiscent of Rowan Williams (Lost Icons), Nicholas Boyle (Who Are We Now?) and Michel de Certeau. Consumption of the Eucharist, he argues, consumes one into the narrative of the pilgrim City of God, whose reach extends beyond the global to embrace all times and places. He develops the theme of the Eucharist as the basis for Christian resistance to the violent disciplines of state, civil society and globalization.

Includes index.

Bibliography.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Disciplined Imaginations of Space and Time
  • 1 The Myth of the State as Saviour
  • 2 The Myth of Civil Society as Free Space
  • 3 The Myth of Globalization as Catholicity
  • Index