Political Theology Today
What does political theology mean today? The idea of political theology begins with the premise that every existing human order is built upon some understanding of ultimate meaning. The task would then be to analyze the kind of meaning that each existing order embodies and determine the kinds of decisions about meaning that are made and need to be made at various points in its history. The essays in Telos 194 examine the political theological underpinnings of economy, politics, technology, and religion, laying out the ways in which these areas of human life develop not as autonomous spheres but as the result of struggles over a set of political theological choices.
Introduction
David Pan
Three Rival Versions of Monetary Enquiry: The Ideologies of Money
Edward Hadas
Social Capitalism: A Descriptive Sketch
David A. Westbrook
The Dark Enlightenment and the Anthropocene: Readings from the Book of Third Nature as Political Theology
Timothy W. Luke
The Intrusion of Slavery into the Time of Schmitt and Shakespeare
Sara-Maria Sorentino
Turmoil in Egypt: Faith, Nationalism, and the Apparent Inadequacies of Liberalism
Beau Mullen
Elham Manea's The Perils of Nonviolent Islamism
On the Question of Moderate Islam
Kacem El Ghazzali
Elham Manea's The Perils of Nonviolent Islamism: An Indispensable Contribution to Our Understanding of a Complex Phenomenon
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Critical Theory of the Contemporary
January 6, 2021: Another Day That Will Live in Infamy?
Timothy W. Luke
Torches, Pitchforks, Smartphones, and Mass Delusion: An American Insurrection
Jay A. Gupta
Trump l'Oeil: Ceci N'est Pas un Coup d'État
Mark G. E. Kelly
