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Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

Paul W. Kahn

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March, 2011
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15340-9
$32.50 / £22.50

 

 

 

In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Continue reading →

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