Lexington Books
Pages: 238
Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7391-9963-3 • Hardback • September 2015 • $121.00 • (£93.00)
978-0-7391-9964-0 • eBook • September 2015 • $114.50 • (£88.00)
John H. A. Dyck is assistant professor of political studies at Trinity Western University and senior research fellow in the Religion, Culture, and Conflict Research Group.
Paul S. Rowe is associate professor of political and international studies at Trinity Western University and senior research fellow in the Religion, Culture, and Conflict Research Group.
Jens Zimmermann is Canada Research Chair in Interpretation, Religion, and Culture and professor of English and philosophy at Trinity Western University as well as senior research fellow in the Religion, Culture, and Conflict Research Group.
Chapter 1. Introduction
John H.A. Dyck, Paul S. Rowe, and Jens Zimmermann
Chapter 2. Jean Bethke Elshtain: a retrospective
Paul S. Rowe
Chapter 3. The Myth of the Sovereign Self
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Chapter 4. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Chapter 5. Bonhoeffer for Political Thought
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Chapter 6. An Interview with Jean Bethke Elshtain
Chapter 7. Mars Bound: Limited War and Human Flourishing
Marc Livecche
Chapter 8. Incarnational Sefhood: Dietrich Bonhoeffer as Guide to the Political Ethics of Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jens Zimmermann
Chapter 9. Sovereignty and Chastened Liberalism
M. Christian Green
Chapter 10. Sovereign Selves: ‘We have met the Enemy and He/She is Us’!
John H.A. Dyck
Chapter 11. God and Power in the Global North and Latin America: a comparative analysis based on Elshtain’s Sovereignty
Andrés Pérez-BaltodanoChapter 12. No God but god? Nominalism and Political Islam
Paul S. RoweChapter 13. ‘Revolutions’ in Political Theology: Protestantism and the International State System
Robert Joustra
Jean Elshtain, God rest her soul, did not play games. She treated the questions of justice and human dignity to which she devoted her life with deadly seriousness and with all the moral and intellectual clarity they demanded. This magnificent, readable volume represents a fitting tribute to Elshtain's enormous vitality and humanity insofar as it beckons all of us to join the all-embracing conversation she carried on throughout her inspiring career.
— Timothy Samuel Shah, Religious Freedom Project, Georgetown University