Political Anti-Theology [Book Review]

Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 22 (1):65-84 (2010)
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In The Stillborn God, Mark Lilla argues that political theology invariably leads to apocalyptic politics, and that we can avoid this fate only by maintaining a “Great Separation” between politics and religion, such as the one that Hobbes initiated, but which was overturned by Rousseau and German liberal theology—leading to Nazism. We argue that Hobbes never established such a divide; political theology is far more diverse than Lilla suggests; and liberal German political theology was not a significant source of Nazism. Moreover, liberalism is itself a political theology, suggesting that religion and politics should not, and perhaps cannot, be divided—although they may be reconciled.

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A Secular Age.Charles Taylor - 2007 - Harvard University Press.
The theological origins of modernity.Michael Allen Gillespie - 1999 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 13 (1-2):1-30.
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