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Title: The Wiley Blackwell companion to political theology / edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Peter Manley Scott.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018. | Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nicholas Adams is Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of Birmingham, UK.
Mario I. Aguilar is Professor of Religion and Politics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK.
J. Matthew Ashley is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Michael J. Baxter is Director of Catholic Studies, Regis University, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Daniel M. Bell, Jr is an independent scholar who for nearly two decades was Professor of Theology and Ethics at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
Andrew Bradstock is a Professor in the Department of Theology, Religion, and Philosophy at the University of Winchester, UK.
Agnes M. Brazal is Associate Professor and Research Fellow, De la Salle University, Manila, Philippines.
Luke Bretherton is Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, USA.
Michael S. Burdett is Assistant Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK.
William T. Cavanaugh is Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
M. Shawn Copeland is Professor of Systematic Theology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
John W. de Gruchy is Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Cape Town and Extraordinary Professor of Theology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013) was Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Roberto S. Goizueta is Margaret O'Brien Flatley Professor Emeritus of Catholic Theology at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
Timothy J. Gorringe is Emeritus Professor of Theology, University of Exeter, UK.
Elaine Graham is Grosvenor Research Professor of Practical Theology, University of Chester, UK.
Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Emeritus Professor of Divinity and Law, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Marsha Aileen Hewitt is Professor of Religion in the Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College and the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Michael Hollerich is Professor of Theology at the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Gavin Hyman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, UK.
Robert W. Jenson (1930–2017) was Senior Scholar for Research at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Pantelis Kalaitzidis is Director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Volos, Greece, and Lecturer of Systematic Theology at the Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece.
Emmanuel Katongole is Associate Professor of Theology and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
Bustami Mohamed Khir was formerly a member of the Graduate Institute of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, UK.
Kwok Pui‐lan is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Michael S. Northcott is Emeritus Professor of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Peter Ochs is Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Wolfgang Palaver is Professor of Catholic Social Thought, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Elizabeth Phillips is Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, UK.
Catherine Pickstock is Norris‐Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is currently completing two manuscripts, Aspects of Truth and Platonic Poetics.
Aloysius Pieris is Founder‐Director of the Tulana Research Centre, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
Marcus Pound is Associate Professor of Contemporary Theology, Durham University, UK.
R. R. Reno is Editor of First Things, New York, USA.
Joerg Rieger is Distinguished Professor of Theology and Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Studies, Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland Professor Emeritus of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford, UK.
Raymund Schwager (1935–2004) was Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Peter Manley Scott is Samuel Ferguson Professor of Applied Theology and Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute, University of Manchester, UK.
Kathryn Tanner is Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Mark Lewis Taylor is Professor of Theology and Culture in the Theology Department and Religion and Society Program, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Bernd Wannenwetsch is Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Freie Theologische Hochschule Giessen, Germany.
William Werpehowski is the McDevitt Professor of Catholic Theology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
Haddon Willmer is Emeritus Professor of Theology at the University of Leeds, UK.
The editors would like to thank our then commissioning editor, Rebecca Harkin, who was from the beginning supportive of the idea of publishing a second edition. During the early stages of developing and commissioning the volume, Gary Keogh, then in the Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, gave us valuable editorial help.
We would like to thank the team at Wiley Blackwell, especially Umar Saleem and Jake Opie, for their work during the production process. Jennifer Finstrom, Charlotte Byrd, and Zoe Knight at the University Center for Writing‐based Learning at DePaul University have done a wonderful job in compiling the index, and we are deeply grateful for their hard work.
Preparing a volume of 43 essays for the press and then for publication has been a large undertaking. We would like to thank contributors, new and returning, for their writing, their willingness to respond to queries, and their patience.