Beyond the Protestantism of Political Theology: The Politics of Theological Voluntarism

8 Pages Posted: 14 Nov 2016

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Anver M. Emon

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law; University of Toronto Department of History

Date Written: November 11, 2016

Abstract

In an attempt to think through the Islamic alongside the Christian, this essay draws upon the political theology of Carl Schmitt to reflect on the salience of sovereignty. But in doing so, the essay re-reads Schmitt’s political theology for its protestant voluntarism, and adopts a more robust theological voluntarism as a vehicle for reflecting on political thought across both Christian and Islamic history. Moreover, this approach to political theology makes possible reflections on how political theology, whether in Christian or Islamic thought, may offer a critical lens by which to gain new analytic insights into the operation of sovereignty in presumably secularized regimes of thought, such as international law.

Keywords: Political Theology, sovereignty, Islamic theology, theological voluntarism

Suggested Citation

Emon, Anver M., Beyond the Protestantism of Political Theology: The Politics of Theological Voluntarism (November 11, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2868087 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2868087

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