Politics of Grace Hope for Redemption in a Post-Christendom Context

Christiane Alpers discusses the contribution and role Christian theology plays in developing of the democratic life in post-Christendom societies. She discusses the three major approaches to this debate - public theology Radical Orthodoxy and post-liberal Protestantism - in order to illustrate the shared assumption that such an enhancement should be understood in terms of solving existing political problems. <br/><br/>The volume builds on and combines public theology's aspiration to craft a non-triumphant political theology fit for a post-Christendom context Radical Orthodoxy's hesitancy to embrace secularism as neutral centre for present democracies; as well as post-liberalism's Christocentric outlook. Alpers engages with a wide variety of thinkers such as John Milbank Graham Ward John Howard Yoder Kathryn Tanner and Edward Schillebeeckx; to suggest that a political theology in the post-Christendom context could build on the faith that Christ alone has redeemed the whole world.