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Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality, written by Marcia Pally

Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality, written by... Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Eerdmands, 2016), pp. viii+419, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8028-7104-6 (pbk).Pally’s ambitious book seeks to show that persons and their societies prosper when cultural conditions respect the autonomy of the individual while recognizing that each person exists within a web of relationships. She terms this desirable condition alternatively as distinction-amid-relationship or seperability-amid-situatedness and argues that its achievement requires an ontology of personhood as essentially related to God and to others. Whether or not she succeeds depends on one’s willingness to travel this well-covered terrain and to accept the author’s methodology as convincing.The first third of the volume describes thinkers who valorize modernity either for its emancipation of the self or for its liberation of the body politic from the constraints of authoritarianism. In her reading, no major thinker of modernity completely dismisses the autonomous self or the importance of society. The remaining two-thirds of the book is a series of essays covering traditional theological topics such as grace, covenant, and the Trinity. Notably there are two chapters devoted to reflections on relationality in the Judaic tradition and to the relationship of freedom of conscience and the Reformed tradition in America. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Public Theology Brill

Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality, written by Marcia Pally

Buhrman, William
International Journal of Public Theology , Volume 11 (1): 3 – Mar 13, 2017
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1872-5171
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1569-7320
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10.1163/15697320-12341476
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Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Eerdmands, 2016), pp. viii+419, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8028-7104-6 (pbk).Pally’s ambitious book seeks to show that persons and their societies prosper when cultural conditions respect the autonomy of the individual while recognizing that each person exists within a web of relationships. She terms this desirable condition alternatively as distinction-amid-relationship or seperability-amid-situatedness and argues that its achievement requires an ontology of personhood as essentially related to God and to others. Whether or not she succeeds depends on one’s willingness to travel this well-covered terrain and to accept the author’s methodology as convincing.The first third of the volume describes thinkers who valorize modernity either for its emancipation of the self or for its liberation of the body politic from the constraints of authoritarianism. In her reading, no major thinker of modernity completely dismisses the autonomous self or the importance of society. The remaining two-thirds of the book is a series of essays covering traditional theological topics such as grace, covenant, and the Trinity. Notably there are two chapters devoted to reflections on relationality in the Judaic tradition and to the relationship of freedom of conscience and the Reformed tradition in America.

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Published: Mar 13, 2017

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