"Spirituality" often takes us out of the public world to a more inward (so-called "mystical") space, while "politics" calls us beyond ourselves to the more material realities of social embodiment.
About the Author
L. Gregory Jones is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Theology, Loyola College in Maryland. He is author of three books, including most recently Embodying Forgiveness. James J. Buckley is Professor of Theology at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the author of Seeking the Humanity of God. Professors Jones and Buckley are the Editors of Modern Theology and the General Editors of the series Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology.
Features
* All essays are diverse and propose no single way to link spirituality and embodiment. * Several essays re-read classical spiritual and political traditions represented in the New Testament, Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas of Aquinas, Julian of Norwich and Martin Luther. * Essays address peculiarly modern problems - contemporary appeals to "inwardness", reifications of The State, and competing African-American spiritualities. * Each essay is concerned with finding a theological way of holding together what is usually divided.
