Transcendence of Desire

Tom James is a pastor in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of In Face of Reality: The Constructive Theology of Gordon D. Kaufman (2014) and co-author of A Philosophy of Christian Materialism (2015). David True is a visiting scholar at Pfeiffer University and is co-editor of the journal Political Theology. He is the co-editor of Paradoxical Virtue: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition (2020) and the editor of Prophecy in a Secular Age: An Introduction (2021).

“This book is the call, amid the current impasse, for a new revolutionary movement aligned with God’s will. It reads like a theological manifesto, breathing life and spirit into the upheaval and turmoil. … This thought-provoking book provides valuable insights for awakening scholars and activists alike in this Kairos moment.” (Seung Woo Lee, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Vol. 44 (1), 2024)

• 1. Introduction: The Politics of Death.- 2. Renewing Political Agency: Arendt on Natality and Judgment.- 3. Theology's Re-politicizing: Crisis and Critique.- 3. Transcendence in a Secular Age: Cruciform Desire.- 4. The Problem and Promise of Politics.- 5. Prophetic Agency.- 6. Practical Agency.- 7. The Church as a Community of Desire.