Lovers of God's Law: The Politics of Higher Law and the Ethics of Civil Disobedience

When Sister Cynthia Brinkman took the stand at her 2004 trial for trespass, with apocalyptic imagery and a theatrical sensibility she spoke of her love of God's law and the binding force of relationships of solidarity that compelled her to “cross the line” onto the US Army base at Ft. Benning....

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Главный автор: Lambelet, Kyle B. T. (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2018]
В: Political theology
Год: 2018, Том: 19, Выпуск: 7, Страницы: 593-610
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B School of the Americas / Движение протеста / Мирное сопротивление / Естественное право (мотив) / Мессианизм (мотив)
Индексация IxTheo:CG Христианство и политика
KBQ Северная Америка
KBR Латинская Америка
NCD Политическая этика
Другие ключевые слова:B Civil Disobedience
B Messianism
B Natural Law
B higher law
B nonviolent social movements
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Итог:When Sister Cynthia Brinkman took the stand at her 2004 trial for trespass, with apocalyptic imagery and a theatrical sensibility she spoke of her love of God's law and the binding force of relationships of solidarity that compelled her to “cross the line” onto the US Army base at Ft. Benning. Brinkman and her fellow agitators justified their actions through appeals to a higher law. I argue that implicit in these appeals are two heuristically separable accounts of the higher law, natural law and messianic. These two modes of theo-political reasoning are implicit in activists' trial statements and I make them explicit through critical juxtaposition with Vincent Lloyd's account of black natural law and Ted Smith's messianic political theology. I demonstrate that such an exercise not only imparts a better description of moral action but through immanent critique can generate a normative evaluation of perennial issues confronting civil disobedients.
Примечание:Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 7-8 November-December 2018"
ISSN:1743-1719
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1467662