On unity, liberty and charity

Title: On unity, liberty and charity
Creator: Stanley, Timothy
Relation: Political Theology Vol. 20, Issue 2, p. 103-111
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2019.1558712
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2019
Description: 1. Political theology has multiple provenances.1 One less cited is the seventeenth century irenic dictum: “and we would all embrace a mutual unity in things necessary; in things non necessary liberty; in all things charity.”2 While aimed at ecumenical peace, this call for mutual unity implied a deliberative context that went beyond sectarian Christian concerns. Liberty and charity were as conducive to a comprehensive church as more modest laws of toleration. My claim is that this dictum’s themes are extemporized in recent pragmatist thought. Locating political theology in this context may yet open new horizons suited to the more diverse political contexts we find ourselves in today.
Subject: political theology; mutual unity; church; charity
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1467131
Identifier: uon:47753
Identifier: ISSN:1462-317X
Language: eng

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