The Violence of Bureaucracy and the Gospel of Peace:
نام عام مواد
[Article]
ساير اطلاعات عنواني
A Theological Response to an Academic Problem
نام نخستين پديدآور
Aaron Edwards
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Why do academic theologians spend most of their time complying with (and complaining about) bureaucracy? To what extent are the bureaucratic pressures upon theology a form of violence, and how might theology respond? This article engages social anthropologist David Graeber's creative critique of bureaucracy in The Utopia of Rules (2016) and applies it towards a distinctly theological reading of the bureaucratic problem. Drawing widely on a number of thinkers, including Arendt, Foucault, Webster, Calvin, Hauerwas, Ellul, and others, the article diagnoses the inherent complexity of any theological response to bureaucracy, before offering an alternative mode of revolutionary compliance via the Biblical proclamation of the gospel of peace. If unspoken violence is indeed the heart of the bureaucratic problem, theology might respond with its own imaginatively interruptive language which proclaims how Christ-the Giver of peace armed with a gospel of peace-confronts all totalitarian systems, especially the unacknowledged. Why do academic theologians spend most of their time complying with (and complaining about) bureaucracy? To what extent are the bureaucratic pressures upon theology a form of violence, and how might theology respond? This article engages social anthropologist David Graeber's creative critique of bureaucracy in The Utopia of Rules (2016) and applies it towards a distinctly theological reading of the bureaucratic problem. Drawing widely on a number of thinkers, including Arendt, Foucault, Webster, Calvin, Hauerwas, Ellul, and others, the article diagnoses the inherent complexity of any theological response to bureaucracy, before offering an alternative mode of revolutionary compliance via the Biblical proclamation of the gospel of peace. If unspoken violence is indeed the heart of the bureaucratic problem, theology might respond with its own imaginatively interruptive language which proclaims how Christ-the Giver of peace armed with a gospel of peace-confronts all totalitarian systems, especially the unacknowledged.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
195-217
عنوان
International Journal of Public Theology
شماره جلد
12/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1569-7320
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اصطلاح موضوعی
academy
اصطلاح موضوعی
bureaucracy
اصطلاح موضوعی
David Graeber
اصطلاح موضوعی
gospel of peace
اصطلاح موضوعی
theology and university
اصطلاح موضوعی
violence
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