Transcending Subjects

Geoffrey Holsclaw is an Affiliate Professor of Theology and Director of Master of Arts in Theology and Mission at Northern Seminary. He is the co-author of Prodigal Christianity (2013), as well as the author of articles in theology and political philosophy, examining major figures such as Hobbes, Badiou and Žižek, and integrating Eucharistic and Trinitarian themes to political practice.

• Acknowledgements ixCitations and Abbreviations xIntroduction 1Part I Hegel—Self-Transcending Immanence 151 Hegel in Contemporary Political Philosophy 17Introduction 17Evolutionary Social Practices: Autonomy through Sociality 19Revolutionary Radical Act: Autonomy against Sociality 27Conclusion 382 Consciousness and Freedom: Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit 43Introduction 43Nothing Is Infinite: Science of Logic 45Infinite Self]Consciousness: Phenomenology of Spirit 62Beyond Nothing and the Unfathomable 89Conclusion 933 Society and Freedom: Philosophy of Right 103Introduction 103The Subject and Substance of Politics 104The Institutions of Ethical Life: Family, Civil Society, and State 115The Limits of Self-Transcending Immanence 118Conclusion 124Part II Augustine—Self-Immanenting Transcendence 1294 Augustine in Contemporary Political Theology 131Introduction 131Ontological Peace: Transcendence against Liberalism 133Ordered Love: Transcendence for Liberalism 144Conclusion 1515 Conversion and Freedom: Confessions 155Introduction 155Conversion of the Will: Conflict and Intervention 160Conversion of the Will: Community and Intervention 169Conversion of Creation: Christ as Intervention 178Conclusion 1856 Society and Freedom: City of God 192Introduction 192Earthly City and the Lust for Domination 198Justice and Res Publica 205Justice, Love, and Sacrifice 208Love and the World 215Conclusion 222Conclusion 230Index 239