[PDF.80nz] Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Encountering Traditions)

Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Encountering Traditions)

[PDF.oa87] Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Encountering Traditions)

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 | #784982 in Books |  2014-11-26 |  2014-11-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 221 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Wierd?|By j a haverstick|The title comes from a contemporary Walt Whitman poem referencing Brown. If you check a 19th cent dictionary or two, as I did, Webster's and Worcester's, you'll discover that the basic definition of the word at that time was "supernatural" (that was surprising to me given how the word has changed in the last 80 or so years). And that is exactly Smith's| |"It is simply the best thing I have read this year, and it is the one book that I am now insisting that my colleagues read."  William T. Cavanaugh, in Marginalia

"Smith offers a major contribution, a courageous and fruitful theological m

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argum...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Encountering Traditions)   |  Ted A. Smith. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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