In this article I try to introduce the overall structure of Bretherton’s book Christ and the Common Life by showing how each chapter displays how talk of God and talk of politics are mutually constitutive. In particular I try to show how Bretherton’s ‘case studies’ are arranged to develop his constructive thesis. My paper was not meant to be critical, though I raise the question of whether Bretherton’s project is not a very sophisticated form of Constantinianism—a question that very much asks Bretherton to make clear for whom he has written this extremely impressive book.

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论上帝与民主：参与布雷瑟顿的基督与共同生活

在这篇文章中，我试图通过展示每一章如何展示谈论上帝和谈论政治是如何相互构成的，来介绍布雷瑟顿的《基督与共同生活》一书的整体结构。我特别试图展示布雷瑟顿的“案例研究”是如何安排来发展他的建设性论文的。我的论文并不是要批判性的，尽管我提出了一个问题，即布雷瑟顿的计划是否不是君士坦丁主义的一种非常复杂的形式——这个问题非常需要布雷瑟​​顿明确他为谁写了这本令人印象深刻的书。