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Coming to Judgment: Methodological Reflections on the Relationship Between Ecclesiology, Ethnography and Political Theory

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BRETHERTON, L
Published in: Modern Theology
2012

This essay theoretically frames the inter‐relationship between ecclesial and political life and suggests how the ethnographic study of this intersection might generate theological conceptualisations of both. It argues there is a dialectical relationship between conceptualisations of ecclesial and political life and that their proper study requires attention to practice in order to generate judgments on both. The key issue here is the kind of rationality from which judgments on practice are derived. A case is made for practical reason as having priority over theoretical reason when thinking about politics and the need to move beyond interpretation to judgment.

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Published In

Modern Theology

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0266-7177

Publication Date

2012

Volume

28

Issue

2

Start / End Page

167 / 196

Publisher

Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Related Subject Headings

  • 5005 Theology
  • 5004 Religious studies
  • 5003 Philosophy
  • 2204 Religion and Religious Studies
  • 2203 Philosophy
 

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BRETHERTON, L. (2012). Coming to Judgment: Methodological Reflections on the Relationship Between Ecclesiology, Ethnography and Political Theory. Modern Theology, 28(2), 167–196. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.2012.01736.x
BRETHERTON, L. “Coming to Judgment: Methodological Reflections on the Relationship Between Ecclesiology, Ethnography and Political Theory.” Modern Theology 28, no. 2 (2012): 167–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.2012.01736.x.
BRETHERTON, L. “Coming to Judgment: Methodological Reflections on the Relationship Between Ecclesiology, Ethnography and Political Theory.” Modern Theology, vol. 28, no. 2, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2012, pp. 167–96. Manual, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0025.2012.01736.x.
Journal cover image

Published In

Modern Theology

DOI

ISSN

0266-7177

Publication Date

2012

Volume

28

Issue

2

Start / End Page

167 / 196

Publisher

Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Related Subject Headings

  • 5005 Theology
  • 5004 Religious studies
  • 5003 Philosophy
  • 2204 Religion and Religious Studies
  • 2203 Philosophy