Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Testing the National Covenant
William F. May
€ 72.69
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Testing the National Covenant
Hardback. Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. This title draws on America's religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country - contractual and covenantal. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPQ; JHB; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 385.
Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current anxieties and appetites? Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country - contractual and covenantal. He contends that the biblical idea of ... Read more
Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current anxieties and appetites? Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country - contractual and covenantal. He contends that the biblical idea of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589017658
SKU
V9781589017658
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About William F. May
William F. May is a senior fellow at the Institute of Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD from Yale and taught for many years at Southern Methodist University, where he was the founding director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. A former president of the American Academy ... Read more
Reviews for Testing the National Covenant
May's work is an important religious contribution to the academic conversation between secular thinkers as William Connolly, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri and theologians such as Joerg Riger and Vincent Lloyd. Reviews in Religion and Theology May invites the reader to question to what extent anonymity and passivity have dominated the constriction of the community in the United States, and ... Read more