This is a splendid book, among the best in this series and representing a high-water mark for this genre of theological analysis. It spans the range of Arendt's considerable corpus (from the densely theoretical and systematic to the popular and occasional) and presents its diversity in marvelously integrated and engaging fashion.

Syndicate

A readable and engaging book which provides compelling answers to the questions of why and how a theologian might engage with the thought of Hannah Arendt.

Theology

Kiess clearly and wisely explores Arendt's views on evil, plurality, love, thinking, and the birth of the new. He then hints at how these ideas might call Christians to live justly in a broken world. Balancing political realism with an openness to grace is not easy. But Arendt and Kiess propose just such a balance, so that 'politics becomes the art of being born.' Incarnation abounds.

Christian Century

Kiess exercises tact in demonstrating that [Arendt's] early training in theology continued to animate some of her most intriguing and productive concepts, and he exercises courage in showing what those concepts might have to offer to worldly theologies and virtue ethics today.

Political Theology

Lively, well-written and meticulously researched ... Kiess's book meets all the objectives set out in the introduction with clarity and an impressive attention to detail ... It is a high-calibre effort, providing an essential resource to appreciate better Arendt's life and legacy.

Studies in Christian Ethics

Keiss offers a lucid, well-sourced introduction to the relevance of Hannah Arendt's thought for work at 'the intersection of ecclesiology, radical democracy, and civic virtue' (to quote from Chapter 3)… Those engaged in broader scholarship on Arendt will be particularly interested in his proposal cum question: 'What is Arendt pointing us to if not a politics open to grace?'

A.L. Shuster, CHOICE