Nowhere is Better than Here: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Early Sixteenth Century Utopias
This article examines the utopian vision present in the eponymous work by Thomas More and in the early Anabaptists. In the light of the discussion on the power and dangers of utopian thinking in liberation theology it seeks to show how More struggled with the tension between the positive possibiliti...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sciendo, De Gruyter
2018
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Perichoresis
Jahr: 2018, Band: 16, Heft: 1, Seiten: 3-20 |
| IxTheo Notationen: | CG Christentum und Politik CH Christentum und Gesellschaft KAG Kirchengeschichte 1500-1648; Reformation; Humanismus; Renaissance KDB Katholische Kirche KDG Freikirche |
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Anabaptists
Thomas More
utopianism
liberation theology
hope
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article examines the utopian vision present in the eponymous work by Thomas More and in the early Anabaptists. In the light of the discussion on the power and dangers of utopian thinking in liberation theology it seeks to show how More struggled with the tension between the positive possibilities of a different world and the destructive criticism of the present reality. A similar tension is found in early Anabaptist practices, especially in terms of their relationship to the state and their practice of commonality of goods. The article shows that that all attempts to reduce visions of a better world to a particular setting end up as ideological. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-7308 |
| Enthält: | In: Perichoresis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/perc-2018-0001 |