Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Baylor University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-170).

Chapter 1: I construct a synthetic reading of the political works of John Howard Yoder, demonstrating that they offer a theological doctrine of the state, counter to the received opinion of Yoder scholarship. While human social life is deemed entirely political, the concept of principalities and powers is shown to be key to understanding Yoder's conception of the state. Further, Yoder demonstrates an apocalyptic political theology, which, as well as waiting on God's action, is also empowered to act in the created realm in the present, secular age. Chapter 2: Stanley Hauerwas' work applies Yoder's concept of the church as political to an understanding of the church in liberal American society and finds this latter to threaten the integrity of Christian distinctiveness both personal and ecclesial. Hauerwas' theology is shown to be deficiently apocalyptic, with the results that he disallows the state a role in God's providence and also has difficulty providing a consistent understanding of possibility of goodness outwith the church. Chapter 3: John Milbank's elaborate reconstruction of the modern Western political and social imaginary as heresy is introduced from a number of angles. Criticisms are made of tensions in Milbank's early and later work between a democratic impulse and a commitment to a sovereign monarch and an aristocratic elite governing society, and between a Baroque-postmodern understanding of human social construction and ideals of a perduring nature and transcendental goodness, beauty and truth. Chapter 4: Following Yoder's suggestion of conscientious participation, a case study is made of Paul Butler's call for a campaign of nullifications of prosecutions of nonviolent black offenders, leading into a consideration of the jury as a valid site of conscience with liberal democracies. The jury's representativity is such that a jury expresses the community's conscience when those individuals called to serve on a jury are invited to express their moral beliefs, even those informed by religion convictions.

Thesis (doctoral). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-390).

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The purpose of this thesis is to study some aspects of the relationship between religion and politics in the province of British Columbia. Three facets of the problem are considered. First, the attitudes of clergymen to their role in political affairs, as well as their attitudes towards practical political issues, and their voting behavior. To obtain information on these subjects, a questionnaire approach was utilized. The second facet studied is the history of a religiously based pressure group within the province. The temperance movement was chosen. Research material utilized included minutes and letters of the temperance organizations; letters of governmental officials; newspaper reports; and personal interviews. Third, the religious affiliations of members of the British Columbia Legislature, and the relationship between religion and cabinet appointments are considered. This work is not a comprehensive study of the relationship between religion and politics in British Columbia; but it does stress the inter-relationship between the two, which must be considered in interpreting our political history. Some suggestions are made towards improving the techniques used by the religious community in attempting to exert positive political influence. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

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Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Faculty of Religious Studies. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/08/05). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 1988. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-148). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.