Theology and the Political

Dr. Alexei Bodrov is Founder and Rector of St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute in Moscow and a researcher at VU Amsterdam. He is editor-in-chief of St. Andrew’s Press, a leader in academic theology publishing in Russian. He has published on interreligious dialogue and religion-society-state relations.Prof. Dr. Stephen M. Garrett recently taught at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania) and now serves as Curriculum Vice-President for Global Scholars. He has published on Hans Urs von Balthasar and continues to explore the nexus of theology and the political via aesthetics in light of 20th century personalism.

• Notes on Contributors1 Introduction: Political Action as WitnessStephen M. GarrettPart 1: Theo-political Retrieval for Contemporary Political Practice2 Between Politics and Apocalypse: Discerning the missio Dei in the Contemporary Global CrisisMichael Kirwan3 Theology and the Basis of Human RightsDavid A. Hoekema4 Human Rights and the Orthodox Church in a Global WorldEmmanuel Clapsis5 Theology and the Justice of Nations: The Pursuit of an Elusive Justice in a Politically Plural WorldStephen M. GarrettPart 2: Theo-political Structural Analysis of Secularity and Post-Secularity6 Terrorism and Political TheologyJürgen MoltmannTranslated by Stephen Hamilton7 A Tortuous Boundary: Polis, Civil Religion, and the Distinction between the Sacred and ProfanePavlo Smytsnyuk8 Fundamentalism in Eastern ChristianityCyril Hovorun9 The Political Aspects of Weak TheologySvetlana KonachevaPart 3: Theo-political Engagement from Specific Christian Traditions10 What Is Wrong with the “Left” and the “Right”? An Orthodox Christian PerspectiveDavor Džalto11 The Prince of Peace Smokes a Peace Pipe: A Church Response to the Challenge of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation CommissionJon Coutts12 Going Political? The Involvement of Churches in Public Debates on Prolife Issues in BelarusNatallia Vasilevich13 Gendering the Fronts and Fronts against Gender: Feminism and Political Theology in Post-Maidan UkraineHeleen Zorgdrager14 Evangelicalism, Authoritarianism, and Socialism: Dialectical Theology in Twenty-First Century AmericaW. Travis McMakenIndex of Names and Subjects