1st Edition
Past and Present Political Theology Expanding the Canon
Introduction
Dennis Vanden Auweele and Miklós Vassányi
1 Kepler, the Supra-Confessional Lutheran
Miklós Vassányi
2 The Subject’s Perspective in Leibniz’s Philosophy
Dániel Schmal
3 From a Pagan Theologia Civilis in Rome to a Fictitious Political Theology in Kant
Martin Moors
4 On Evil and Political Theology: Reflections on Kant and After
William Desmond
5 The Political Theology of Witnessing: The Canaanite Woman and Kierkegaard’s Tax-Collector
Orsolya Horváth
6 The Politics of Religious Commitment: Pascal and Dostoevsky
Dennis Vanden Auweele and Hanna Vandenbussche
7 The East-West Divide in the European Union and Its Overcoming
Balázs M. Mezei
8 Spiritual Communism: The Career of a Theory from Saint Augustine to MacIntyre.
Gábor Kendeffy
9 Dispositives of Political Theology: Analysing non-discursive Elements of the Josephinian
Dispositive of Pastoral Power
Michael Hoelzl
10 Theological Motives in Hannah Arendt’s Thought
Csaba Olay
11 A Political Theology ‘of Doubtful Solidity’: Leo Strauss on Rousseau via Spinoza
Gabor Boros
12 Religious Moral Languages, Secularity, and Hermeneutical Injustice
Gorazd Andrejc
13 "State-persecution" in the works of Raffaele Pettazzoni. A religious history
Valerio Severino
14 Christ versus the Llama Sacrifice: Rodolfo Kusch’s Theological Criticism of the Colonization of Latin America
Péter Szakács
15 Religious Atheism: Assessing Political Religion through Critchley’s Faith of the Faithless
Dennis Vanden Auweele
Biography
Dennis Vanden Auweele is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium).
Miklós Vassányi is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Károli University of the Reformed Church, Hungary.
