Divine Democracy: Political Theology after Carl Schmitt
Is a Democratic Political Theology Possible?
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https://doi.org/10.37646/xihmai.v18i35.551Keywords:
Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, Sovereignty, DemocracyAbstract
Carl Schmitt built his Political Theology around his famous definition of the sovereign as the one who "decides on the state of exception" (2009, p. 13). Simplifying, it could be affirmed that political theology is for Schmitt the name given to the legitimizing discourse of the sovereign's monopoly over the decision. In Divine Democracy (2021), Miguel Vatter offers a scholarly and suggestive reconstruction of a variety of theological-political discourses that would represent an alternative to the Schmittian, sovereignist perspective on the relationship between theology and politics. Through the critical rereading of authors from the last century such as Peterson, Voegelin, Maritain, Kantorowicz and Habermas, among others, Vatter identifies the emergence of a democratic political theology beyond Schmitt.
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Peterson, E. (1999). El monoteísmo como problema político. Trotta.
Schmitt, C. (2009). Teología política: cuatro ensayos sobre la soberanía. Trotta.
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