Images of God and the state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Nicholls, David creator text xx New York Routledge 1989 9999 monographic und eng

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321 p. ; 22 cm. Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; THE SOCIAL CONTEXT; Images, analogies and other tropes; Parameters; Allegorical elaborations; Anthropologists and historians; Divine images as independent variables; Writing history 'backwards'; CONTEMPORARY IMAGES OF GOD AND THE STATE; Scepticism and authority; The analogy questioned; Autarky and absolutism; Stability and structure; The rise of the decisionist model; CHRISTIANS AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE; Biblical perspectives; Representative government; Moral and political principles 2 Welfare God and paternal state ITHE WELFARE STATE TODAY; Industries and services; The corporate state; The malaise in local government; Law enforcement, executive discretion and the treatment of deviants; Welfare services and the plight of the poorest; WILLIAM TEMPLE: GOD AND THE WELFARE STATE; Temple: the man and his work; God and the state; Conciliation and the common good; Politics and welfare; Temple and Beveridge; INCARNATION, ATONEMENT AND PERSONALITY; The Christian Social Union; Hastings Rashdall; Scott Holland and Lux Mundi; God as father and friend; The state as grandmother 3 Welfare God and paternal state IIWELFARE, THE NEW LIBERALS AND THE STATE; Social legislation; Positive liberty, citizenship and the common good; Hobhouse, Hobson and the social Darwinists; New liberals or 'New Tories'?; THE OXFORD SETTLERS; The Barnetts of Toynbee Hall; Scott Lidgett; THE BALLIOL IDEALISTS; The moral life and the image of God; The concept and role of the state; GERMAN THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL LEGISLATION; Protestant paternalism; Protestant images of God; Max Weber; 4 No king but Caesar: sovereign God and total state; TOTALITARIANISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE RELIGION AND THE NAZI MOVEMENTThe 'German Christians'; Hirsch and Althaus; CARL SCHMITT; Weimar and parliamentarism; Decisionism; Schmitt-a theorist of totalitarianism?; Political theology; KARL BARTH; God and the state; Barth and the Nazis; Divine decisionism; The ethics of divine command; Barth's response; NICOLAS BERDYAEV; The God of freedom; Freedom and anarchy; GOD, TOTALITARIANISM AND THE BUGBEAR OF 'SOCIETY'; 5 Federal politics and finite God: images of God in United States theology; MONARCHY AND AUTARKY ASSAILED; James and Dewey; Process and pluralism; PROCESS PHILOSOPHY AND GOD WhiteheadHartshorne; Wieman; LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM AND THE SOCIAL GOSPEL; Shailer Mathews and the Chicago School; Two philosophers: Howison and Overstreet; Walter Rauschenbusch and the social gospel; Divine democracy and civil religion; THEOLOGICAL IMAGINATION; 6 Impassible God and autarkic state; ROMANTICS AND NATIONALISTS; FICHTE; Fichte's life and work; The self-sufficient state; The autarkic God; SCHLEIERMACHER; Prophet and preacher; The German nation; Schleiermacher's God; The coherence of Schleiermacher; HEGEL; The secret of Hegel; Autonomy of the nation-state David Nicholls Christianity and politics History 20th century.Christianity and politics History 19th century BR115.P7 .N38 1989 97804150117230415011728 231021