There is great interest in mercy in response to Pope Francis declaring a Jubilee Year of Mercy. This declaration has allowed us to give voice to our sense of living in “dark times” amid a “culture of indifference.” This book invites readers to consider the topic of mercy from the perspective of the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz.

The language of mercy speaks of compassion and solidarity, key terms within political theology. Much of what has been written about mercy shares the political theological conviction that mercy is a praxis, a way of living critically that entails the kind of re-understanding of human subjectivity that political theology has characterized as an “anthropological revolution.”