...This chapter anatomizes the concept of the mystical body in the writings of Schmitt, Kantorowicz, and the modern Jesuit theologian Henri de Lubac. It demonstrates that Kantorowicz uses the lateral sociological imagery of the corpus mysticum to counter the more personalist...

...This afterword highlights the role of affect in each essay in this collection, implicitly situating them in the context of actual lives. It begins with an account of reading Henri de Lubac’s Drama of Atheist Humanism, noting how de Lubac’s interest in atheism as a “living force” foreshadows...