Hewitt, S orcid.org/0000-0003-2720-4428 (2018) Not Crying “Peace” The Theological Politics of Herbert McCabe. New Blackfriars, 99 (1084). pp. 740-755. ISSN 0028-4289
Abstract
Herbert McCabe was, by widespread acclaim, one of the greatest Catholic thinkers in the English speaking world during the final quarter of the last century. He was also deeply committed to radical left‐wing politics. What is the relationship between these two facts? I lay out what I take to be the key themes in McCabe's politics before arguing that, in contrast to significant strands in present day political theology, he had a keen sense of the respective roles of faith and reason in guiding political action. This allowed him to commit himself to a politics which was more radical than much of what has followed him, whilst having a clear sense of how Christian faith ought to be allowed to condition political engagement. The article concludes by drawing out lessons from McCabe for thinking about faith and politics. Not least of these is that we ought to avoid the lure, often articulated in terms of the ‘unifying’ role of the Church, to eschew conflict.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hewitt, S. (2018), Not Crying “Peace” The Theological Politics of Herbert McCabe. New Blackfriars, 99: 740-755, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12401. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Herbert McCabe; political theology; Christianity and Marxism; grammatical thomism; conflict |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2018 11:39 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/nbfr.12401 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133232 |