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Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account

By: Guido de Graaff

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Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account

By: Guido de Graaff

Guido de Graaff explores the political dimension and significance of friendship, arguing that its specific contribution lies not only in its theological approach, but also in its particular focus distinguishing the 'political' from the 'social' and/or 'civic'. The book's explorations are framed around a particular story of friendship: the story of Bishop George Bell and German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Drawing on Hannah Arendt and Oliver O'Donovan, de Graaff argues that Bell and Bonhoeffer's story can be read as one of friends assuming the responsibility of political judgment in an emergency situation - their story casts doubts on secular politics as the primary context for interpreting the friends' judgments. Thus the book provides a more comprehensive account of the story, also interpreting it against the background of the life of the church (with special attention to John 15 and Romans 12). De Graaff concludes by showing how a theological account is vital for discerning the distinct politics of the church, including opportunities for Christian engagement in secular politics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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056765561X

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Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account

By: Guido de Graaff

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Ethnography and Encounter

The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia

By: Guido van Meersbergen

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The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia

By: Guido van Meersbergen

The global operations of the East India Companies were profoundly shaped by European perceptions of foreign lands. Providing a cultural perspective absent from existing economic and institutional histories, Ethnography and Encounter is the first book to systematically explore how Company agents’ understandings of and attitudes towards Asian peoples and societies informed institutional approaches to trade, diplomacy, and colonial governance. Its fine-grained comparisons of Dutch and English activities in seventeenth-century South Asia show how corporate ethnography was produced, how it underpinned given modes of conduct, and how it illuminates connections across space and time. Ethnography and Encounter identifies deep commonalities between Dutch and English discourses and practices, their indebtedness to pan-European ethnographic traditions, and their centrality to wider histories of European expansion.

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BRILL

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9004471820

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9789004471825

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Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account

Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account

Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account

Politics in Friendship: A Theological Account

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