The Future of Political Theology
Religious and Theological Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5707766 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Stone, Byron D Stone (0000-0001-6092-0798, Boston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 337-338 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Church and State (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcs/cst014 |
| OpenAlex | W2320453593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The collaborators of this volume take as their point of departure a “post-secularity” or “post-materialism” that refuses to contain the fundamental question of sovereignty within the modern parameters of secular political theory and political philosophy, thereby subordinating religious and theological interventions in political theology. The authors do not reject modern political theory and philosophy but are focused on what comes after modernity—thus, the volume's emphasis on “the future” of political theology. Although that future is not projected as a return to an amalgamation of “church and state, altar and throne,” it nevertheless seeks to “press the claims of religious voices to be heard in the political realm” (p. xiv). At the same time, it does not attempt to carve out for religion its own political territory but instead proposes “new cultural imaginaries” that are permeated by the theological while refusing the temptation of domination (p. 3). Part 1 of the volume is historical in orientation, although in each of the three chapters the authors discuss the past as a way of raising critical challenges for the future. Matthias Riedl's fine essay, for example, traces the creation of the secular not to the retreat of faith under the conditions of modernity but to the emergence of early Latin Christianity in North Africa and to the transcendentalization of politics as applied to God (who is the true dominus and imperator) over against the pretensions of the Roman imperium. A chapter by Michael Hoelzl argues that the Holocaust is largely absent from the philosophy of humanism in the latter half of the twentieth century, with a profound loss for those who would answer the question of what it is to be human and seek the political consequences of that answer. Again, the past provides clues for the future of political theology.
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |