Past and Present Political Theology

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.

• 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