ebooks Three Treatises by Martin Luther in History

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Princeton's Mark Lewis Taylor has always worked at the intersection of the political and theological. Now; in this intense and exciting work; he explores in a systematic way how those two dimensions of human reality can be conceived anew and together. Taylor argues that the decline of political discourse; the justification of torture and preemptive war; the misuse of religion to justify atrocity; and most especially the sheer weight of suffering in the world--all these developments urge us to reconceive theology itself. In conjunction with the latest insights of political theory; postcolonial thought; and spectral theories in contemporary philosophy; Taylor suggests that the political is the context of the theological and a realm in which we can discern; beyond simple categories of transcendence and immanence; a transimmanence that is theologically illuminative and politically liberating.