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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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Sciendo, De Gruyter
2018
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Perichoresis
Año: 2018, Volumen: 16, Número: 1, Páginas: 3-20 |
| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | CG Cristianismo y política CH Cristianismo y sociedad KAG Reforma KDB Iglesia católica KDG Iglesia libre |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Anabaptists
Thomas More
utopianism
liberation theology
hope
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Sumario: | 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 |
| Obras secundarias: | In: Perichoresis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/perc-2018-0001 |