The Unevenness of Political Theology
Those who agree that Carl Schmitt was correct to prefer to political theology to liberalism nonetheless need to develop an account of how an authority structure can sustain itself without imposing an ideology on those over whom it rules. This article suggests that one possibility forward is found in...
Subtitles: | Roundtable: How Theological is Political Theology? |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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In: |
Political theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 8, Pages: 698-703 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Taubes, Jacob 1923-1987
/ Political theology
/ Liberalism
/ Democracy
/ Mysticism
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RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CG Christianity and Politics TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Mysticism
B Rufus Jones B Jacob Taubes B Carl Schmitt B Political Theology |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
Summary: | Those who agree that Carl Schmitt was correct to prefer to political theology to liberalism nonetheless need to develop an account of how an authority structure can sustain itself without imposing an ideology on those over whom it rules. This article suggests that one possibility forward is found in the mystical political theology of Jacob Taubes's 1955 essay On The Symbolic Order of Modern Democracy, since that essay posits a political body in which sovereignty is distributed, without forcing that distribution in an arbitrary manner. |
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Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 7-8 November-December 2018" |
ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1520847 |