Introduction
I. The Emergence of Political Theology
Introduction by Amy Daughton
1. Scriptural Sources
1 Samuel 8; Luke 1.68-79; Matthew 25.31-46; Luke 23.33-43 Augustine, City of God (excerpts)
2. Gregory of Nyssa, 'First Homily on the Love of the Poor, or On God Works'
3. John Chrysostom, 'First Homily on Lazarus and the Rich Man, or On Wealth and Poverty'
4. Augustine of Hippo - City of God, Book XIX, Chapters 11-28
5. Augustine of Hippo - Letters 189, 220
6. Thomas Aquinas - Extracts from Summa Theologiae
7. Thomas Aquinas - Extracts from De regimine principum
8. Discussion Questions
II. Approaches to Political Theology
Introduction by Anna Rowlands
9. Carl Schmitt - Definition of Sovereignty
10. Jürgen Moltmann - Covenant or Leviathan? Political Theology for Modern Times
11. Johannes Baptist Metz - Theology in the New Paradigm: Political Theology
12. Dorothy Soelle - Extracts from the Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance
13. Jürgen Habermas - Faith and Knowledge
14. Discussion Questions
III. The Church and the Political
Introduction by Anna Rowlands
15. Martin Luther - Extracts from Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
16. Martin Luther - Extracts from On Secular Authority: How Far Does the Obedience Owed to IT Extend?
17. John Calvin - Of Civil Government
18. John Neville Figgis - Extracts from the Civic Standpoint
19. William Temple - What Christians Stand for in the Secular World
20. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth - The Aryan Clauses and Further Correspondence
21. Dorothy Day - Why
22. Dorothy Day - Extracts from We Go on Record
23. Discussion Questions
IV. The Politics of Jesus
Introduction by Elizabeth Phillips
24. John Howard Yoder - Are You the One Who Is to Come?
25. Michael Sattler - The Schleitheim Articles
26. Reinhold Niebuhr - The Ethic of Jesus and the Social Problem
27. James Cone - Jesus Christ in Black Theology
28. Discussion Questions
V. Violence and Peace
Introduction by Elizabeth Phillips
29. Tertullian - Extracts from On The Crown
30. Ambrose of Milan - Extracts from On the Duties of Clergy, Book I
31. Pilgram Marpeck - Concerning the Lowliness of Christ
32. Martin Luther King, Jr. - A Time to Breal Silence
33. William T. Cavanaugh - Violence Religious and Secular: Questioning the Categories
34. Rowan Williams - Do Human Rights Exist?
35. Discussion Questions
VI. Liberalism and Democracy
Introduction by Anna Rowlands
36. Thomas Hobbes - Extracts from Leviathan
37. Stanley Hauerwas - The Church and Liberal Democracy
38. John Milbank - Liberality versus Liberalism
39. Christopher Insole - Theology and Politics: The Intellectual History of Liberalism
40. Eric Gregory - Love and Citizenship after Augustine
41. Aristotle Papanikolaou - The Politics of Divine-Human Communion
42. Discussion Questions
VII. Oppression, Marginalization and Liberation
Introduction by Amy Daughton
43. Leo XIII - Extracts from Rerum Novarum
44. Jon Sobrino - Extracts from Extra Pauperes Nulla Salus: A Short Utopian Prophetic Essay
45. Marcella Althaus-Reid - ¿Bién Sonados? The Future of Mystical Connections in Liberation Theology
46. J. Kameron Carther - Interlude on Christology and Race
47. Rosemary Radford Ruether - Extracts from Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology
48. Musa Dube - Reading for Decolonization (John 4.1-42)
49. Discussion Questions
VIII. Creation, History and Eschatology
Introduction by Elizabeth Philips
50. Charles Mathewes - The Republic of Grace; or, the Public Ramifications of Heaven
51. Oliver O'Donovan - The Political Thought of the Book of Revelation
52. Sergii Bulgakov - The Soul of Socialism
53. Slavoj Zizek - Extracts from Thinking Backward: Predestination and Apocalypse
54. Discussion Questions

Suggestions for Further Reading
Scripture Index
Subject Index