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Document Details : Title: The Citizenship of Nowhere Subtitle: A Faithful Response to Brexit Author(s): EXALL, Maria Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Volume: 98 Issue: 1 Date: 2022 Pages: 123-145 DOI: 10.2143/ETL.98.1.3290285 Abstract : Taking as a starting point the views of certain British political theologians on the meaning of the vote for Brexit, I show how the moral and spiritual self-transcendence at the centre of the apophatic tradition can be used to critique their conservative communitarian conceptions of the common good, dependent as they are on closed reifications of identity and belonging. I suggest that an apophatic anthropology supports a political theology that is, instead, open, inclusive, and universalist. The resources of the Christian mystical tradition point towards an embracing of the interdependence and increasing connectedness of our globalising world and the new possibilities for human flourishing it creates. I conclude by considering a negative but inclusive model of ethical citizenship, a 'citizenship of nowhere', and how this can be the basis of transformative social and political action on issues of multiculturalism and immigration. |
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