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Author Yannaras, Christos

Title On the 'Meaning' of Politics
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (94 p.)
Series Transforming Political Theologies Series
Transforming Political Theologies Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Translator's note -- Translator's acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Reverence and justice -- 2 Necessity and freedom -- 3 Forms of organized coexistence -- 4 Cohesion through coercion -- 5 Leitourgima's degeneration into office -- 6 Ratio dethrones authority -- 7 The desire for ""salvation"" dethrones ratio -- 8 Ecclesia and religion: incompatible modes of existence -- 9 When truth becomes the priority -- 10 Politics: contest or art? -- 11 Shared need as shared truth -- 12 The pre-political character of freedom
13 The alignment of the ecclesia of the demos and the ecclesia of the believers -- 14 The exercise of authority as responsible service -- 15 The common roots of democracy, community, and the parish -- 16 The political consequences of the Ecclesia's religionization -- 17 Religious totalitarianism -- 18 Ideology: the alienation of truth into accuracy -- 19 Societas: the alienation of communion into partnership -- 20 Religious ""salvation"" and political individualism -- 21 Materialistic and idealistic utilitarianism -- 22 The Ecclesia is the aim of politics -- 23 Augustine is Europe
24 Political forms of religious individualism -- 25 The Ecclesia's alienation in confessionalism -- 26 A Trinitarian archetype of politics -- 27 Comprehension is not knowledge -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Political science -- Philosophy.
Political science -- Philosophy.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000968446
1000968448