Politics of Grace

Christiane Alpers is Research Fellow at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1Public Theology: Solutions for Political Problems in post-Christendom SocietiesChapter 2Radical Orthodoxy: A Christian Social Order as Solution to the Political Problems of Post-Christendom SocietiesChapter 3Post-liberal Christocentrisms: A non-Dominating Christianity as Principled Solution to the Problem of ChristendomChapter 4Edward Schillebeeckx’s Christology of Redemption: A Realistic Grace Optimism despite Political ProblemsChapter 5Without Promise: A non-Dominating Political Theology for post-Christendom SocietiesConclusionBibliographyIndex

Alpers disrupts received oppositions between church and world by recognizing both grace already given and the distorting power of sin. She provocatively urges Christians not to take on God’s work for themselves, but instead to recognize the hope that grace brings to a fallen world and to attend to its signs. An important intervention in both public theology and systematic theology.