William T. Cavanaugh is director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University. His previous books include Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political meaning of the Church and being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire.
Canadian Theological Review
"An important work that deserves to be read not only by specialists
in political theology and Christian social ethics but by all who
value a compassionate and careful engagement with the world."
William A. Barbieri
-- Catholic University of America
"William Cavanaugh's adoption of Pope Francis's stirring metaphor
of the church as field hospital is apt for his own theological
work, which he continues here in a vein reminiscent of the doctors
in M*A*S*H -- unblinking, subversive, mordantly witty, and always
deeply humane. He clearly diagnoses the pathologies of consumerism
and violence that afflict our culture and takes his scalpel to the
myths and idolatries that undergird them. . . . In this book's
interconnected interventions Cavanaugh once again displays the
insight, acuity, and compassion that make him one of the leading
theologians of these times." Emmanuel Katongole
-- Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of
Notre Dame
"Political theology at its best. Field Hospital confirms Cavanaugh
as one of the most lucid, innovative, and interesting theological
voices of our time. He has that rare ability to take complicated
philosophical arguments and ideas and present them in simple and
clear ways for both an academic and a general audience." Matthew
Levering
-- Mundelein Seminary
"Richly instructive. . . . Bill Cavanaugh intrepidly goes where few
theologians dare to go, and his questions and answers remain
resolutely theological against the strongest temptations to bow to
the accepted discourses of our age. Those seeking to understand the
perspectives that inspire Caritas in Veritate and Evangelii Gaudium
need search no further: this is the book to read." Joseph L.
Mangina
-- Wycliffe College, University of Toronto
"Field Hospital sets forth an utterly unsentimental vision of the
church as imperfect and vulnerable, her 'power made perfect in
weakness.' Cavanaugh shows again why he is one of contemporary
Catholicism's most important thinkers."
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