Sovereignty: God, State, and SelfBasic Books, 10 ביוני 2008 - 352 עמודים Throughout the history of human intellectual endeavor, sovereignty has cut across the diverse realms of theology, political thought, and psychology. From earliest Christian worship to the revolutionary ideas of Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx, the debates about sovereignty -- complete independence and self-government -- have dominated our history. In this seminal work of political history and political theory, leading scholar and public intellectual Jean Bethke Elshtain examines the origins and meanings of &"sovereignty"; as it relates to all the ways we attempt to explain our world: God, state, and self. Examining the early modern ideas of God which formed the basis for the modern sovereign state, Elshtain carries her research from theology and philosophy into psychology, showing that political theories of state sovereignty fuel contemporary understandings of sovereignty of the self. As the basis of sovereign power shifts from God, to the state, to the self, Elshtain uncovers startling realities often hidden from view. Her thesis consists in nothing less than a thorough-going rethinking of our intellectual history through its keystone concept. The culmination of over thirty years of critically applauded work in feminism, international relations, political thought, and religion, Sovereignty opens new ground for our understanding of our own culture, its past, present, and future. |
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עמוד 1
... human reason—within the regnant Thomism of Europe's High Middle Ages. God's sovereignty over the human intellect held that human beings could come to God and discern his existence and divinity through the light of intellect and reason ...
... human reason—within the regnant Thomism of Europe's High Middle Ages. God's sovereignty over the human intellect held that human beings could come to God and discern his existence and divinity through the light of intellect and reason ...
עמוד 3
... human head goes unnumbered. Human beings are subject to their creator. But how are we to “think” the question of God? Can we in any way rise to him? Does he in any way come down to us? The answer to each of these questions, for ...
... human head goes unnumbered. Human beings are subject to their creator. But how are we to “think” the question of God? Can we in any way rise to him? Does he in any way come down to us? The answer to each of these questions, for ...
עמוד 4
... Human beings, created in God's image (imago Dei) participate in God's creativity. But it is pride and folly to pretend one can emulate God directly.11 There are limits—intrinsic, not accidental or contingent—to our capacity to ...
... Human beings, created in God's image (imago Dei) participate in God's creativity. But it is pride and folly to pretend one can emulate God directly.11 There are limits—intrinsic, not accidental or contingent—to our capacity to ...
עמוד 5
... human self-governance, are central to this study and conspicuous, at times, by their absence in human history and thought. Where sovereign God is concerned, Augustine's teaching stresses just how shocking the incarnation was to ...
... human self-governance, are central to this study and conspicuous, at times, by their absence in human history and thought. Where sovereign God is concerned, Augustine's teaching stresses just how shocking the incarnation was to ...
עמוד 6
... human beings can never be three in one—they can only “imitate” the God they believe is all-powerful, a solipsistic God, not the trinitarian God of Augustinian Christianity.24 It is easier to imagine a solipsistic God isolated in ...
... human beings can never be three in one—they can only “imitate” the God they believe is all-powerful, a solipsistic God, not the trinitarian God of Augustinian Christianity.24 It is easier to imagine a solipsistic God isolated in ...
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8 | 159 |
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10 | 203 |
11 | 227 |
AN AFTERWORD 1992 | 247 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 249 |
NOTES | 251 |
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