{"product_id":"on-hope-and-holy-anarchism","title":"On Hope and Holy Anarchism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Hope and Holy Anarchism \u003c\/em\u003eoffers an original scholarly work attempting to develop the standpoint of those who think of themselves as religious\/Christian anarchists, or who are interested in understanding anarchism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoly anarchism, Andrew Shanks argues, is in one sense a name for the ethos of the Sermon on the Mount. But in another sense, it is an ideal that has only now become fully thinkable: in the world of present-day civil society and its public conscience movements. Dorothy Day is officially a candidate for canonisation, expected to be the first Roman Catholic official saint to have been, in her own lifetime, a self-professed ‘anarchist’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart One of \u003cem\u003eOn Hope and Holy Anarchism \u003c\/em\u003econsists of a grand-narrative meditation on this and a critical dialogue with the great Marxist philosopher, protagonist of ‘the principle of hope’, Ernst Bloch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart Two consists of two portraits: one of Dorothy Day and the other of the Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox pioneer educationalist Asfaw Yemiru.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart Three is largely focused on recruiting the philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937 – 2014) to the cause of ‘holy anarchism’. Henri Bergson’s distinction between ‘static’ and ‘dynamic religion’ also features here: inasmuch as ‘holy anarchism’, Shanks argues, essentially liberates the latter from the former.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, ‘holy anarchism’ is discussed in three genres – grand narrative\/biography\/[trans-]metaphysics – to provide a rounded, three-dimensional celebration. The three genres are complementary, each strengthening the other two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHope, it is argued here, is truly a virtue insofar as it energises our response to the infinite imperatives of ‘truth-as-openness’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew Shanks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57943830659455,"sku":"9780334067849","price":59.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.aslanchristianbooks.com\/products\/on-hope-and-holy-anarchism","provider":"Aslan Christian Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}