Radical Democracy and Political Theology

Robbins, Jeffrey W.

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“…Although, the concept of theology and especially the notion of political theology preexist Christianity, to the extent that the first traces of political theology can be detected within the rich intellectual and experiential tradition of both Stoic philosophy and then 40 ancient Rome, under the auspices of either the well-known mythical theology 48 or the socalled natural theology 49 or a sort of political theology that is associated with city gods in the sense of a civic religion 50 , political theology refers to Christianity and especially both to apostle Paul and the great Christian theologians after him (see Patristic Period c. 100-451) 51 . More specifically and although we talk about the Jewish political theology 52 and also the Islamic political theology 53 , political theology is definitely concerned with the life above all the passion of Jesus Christ on the Cross. From this viewpoint, it is no coincidence that Christology consists of the hard core of the so-called New Political Theology 54 .…”

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“…Thus, from Ernst Kantorowicz to Claude Lefort or from Leo Strauss and Walter Benjamin to Jürgen Moltmann and Giorgio Agamben, with the controversial figures of Heidegger and Schmitt to dominate the whole scene as the two theoretical pillars of both Weimar Renaissance and Continental philosophy, contemporary political onto-theologies have largely re-newed the content and the meanings of contemporary social, political and ethical theory. This enormous philosophical project, which tends to radically re-define ontological, theological and ethical borderlines of the political, seems like a frenetic leap to the chaos of democratic multitude, but without being entrapped in simplistic teleological or eschatological interpretations 121 .…”

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“…Cavanaugh (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2005, pp. 519-534 53. Bustami Mohamed Khir, ''The Islamic Quest for Sociopolitical Justice'', In: Peter Scott and William T. Cavanaugh (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2005, pp.…”

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Political Onto-Theologies or Towards a Political Metaphysics. Some Critical Analogies From Plato to Jürgen Moltmann

Makris¹

2019

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The fruitful revival of political onto-theology in the 20th century, just in the heart of the so-called Weimar Renaissance, is connected not only with the revised image of the Middle Ages, but also with the total recall of the problem evil in the epicenter of late modernity, due to the bloody and barbaric World Wars. Both New Political Theology and post-fundamental political onto-theologies, in the sense of a radical onto-theologia negativa, brought to the forefront of contemporary social, political and ethical theory the essential issues of ontological, theological and moral interpretation of the political. It is not by accident that New Political Theology comes to the postwar theoretical and experiential scene as a rival against Schmittian political theology. Now, the focal point of analysis is not political power, in the sense of state sovereignty, but a radical return to the forgotten theologian principles of Christology and Trinitarianism. As far as New Political Theology is concerned, the new content of political theology pursues more the republican and democratic aspects of a Crucified God on the Cross next to Jesus Christ, the poor and the pariahs. It is no coincidence that Moltmannian theology of hope is seen, in the final analysis, as a political theologia crucis. It is important to add that a significant role in the non-Schmittian political theology of the 20th century plays the messianic and/or apocalyptic Jewish political theology with apparent Marxist connotations and strong links with Critical Theory.

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2019

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“…Jeffrey W. Robbins captures perhaps the most foundational of these when he argues that democracy was the 'political instantiation of the death of God'. 36 Removing the ontological and epistemological foundations of the ancien régime, Robbins argues, democracy strips the world of its sovereign guarantor, leaving it with the prospect of no directing will. Under the auspices of both secularization and democracy, the sovereign will can no longer be identical to a divine authority or human regent.…”

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Islamophobic conspiracism and neoliberal subjectivity: the inassimilable society

O’Donnell¹

2017

Patterns of Prejudice

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O'Donnell analyses the confluence of Islamophobia and anti-government conspiracy theory in the works of the far-right think tank, the Center for Security Policy (CSP). He argues that, rather than only being a contemporary form of the religious and racialized demonologies that code 'Islam' as being the constitutive outside of 'the 'West-irrational, religious and authoritarian versus rational, secular and democratic-Islamophobic conspiracism should also be examined in the context of anxieties over the erosion of personal and state sovereignty under neoliberalization. Mobilizing an Islamophobic demonology that constructs 'Muslims' as inassimilable to 'American' subjectivity, the CSP's Islamophobic conspiracism projects this construction of absolute alterity on to American social and state systems. In doing so, O'Donnell contends, Islamophobic conspiracism takes neoliberalization's estrangement of the state and its citizens to its logical conclusion, transfiguring the societal processes that impact on the freedom of the individual-notably the state and civil society-into something inassimilable to that individual's claims to self-ownership and self-mastery.

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“…The problem with radical theology is that it has been insufficiently political and, further, that there has not yet developed a truly radical political theology. This concern has been mitigated in recent years both by those who self-identify with the radical theological lineage and by the widespread theoretical attention to political theology generally and to the legacy of Carl Schmitt more particularly (Robbins, 2011;Crockett, 2011).…”

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A radical theology for the future: five theses

Robbins

Crockett

2015

Palgrave Commun

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This article sketches out five theses of radical theology to contribute to a vision of the future of theology. Radical theology emerged out of the Death-of-God theology of the 1960s, as well as some forms of liberation theology. These theologies challenge the orthodoxy of most traditional forms of theological and religious reflection. Here the authors, who are part of the conversation of radical theology in the United States and elsewhere, sketch out five theses: that radical theology should be postsecular, postliberal, a version of political or liberation theology, an onto-theology and an eco-theology. Each of these terms, however, needs to be qualified with a difference that distinguishes them from more common understandings of these terms. Finally, we argue that radical theology should be materialist in a non-reductionist way that reconfigures but does not simply dismiss our ideas about God, humanity, religion and the world. This article is published as part of a thematic collection dedicated to radical theologies.

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Radical Democracy and Political Theology

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Political Onto-Theologies or Towards a Political Metaphysics. Some Critical Analogies From Plato to Jürgen Moltmann

Political Onto-Theologies or Towards a Political Metaphysics. Some Critical Analogies From Plato to Jürgen Moltmann

Islamophobic conspiracism and neoliberal subjectivity: the inassimilable society

A radical theology for the future: five theses

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