Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Christological Sources
- Part II The Christological Reception
- Part III The Contemporary Christological Discussions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Religion … (continued from page ii)
- References
20 - Christology and Political Theology
from Part IIIb - Christology and Philosophical Theology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Christological Sources
- Part II The Christological Reception
- Part III The Contemporary Christological Discussions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Religion … (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the role of Christology in the subfield of political theology. Political theologies examine the structure and logic of worldly power, assessing its relation to religious and theological dimensions of community formation, the cultivation of the citizen (often in contrast to the non-citizen or the enemy), expectations of messianic emergence and progress, and the potential for enacting meaningful political resistance. Christology is a major focus within the field of political theology both because of the historical role played by Christianity in the political development of Europe and Europe’s imperial and colonial footprint and because Christology is deeply invested in these very questions of power. This chapter focuses on key texts from the twentieth century that remain touchstones for the growing discipline of political theology as it exists today.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Christology , pp. 340 - 358Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
References
Further Suggested Readings
An, Yountae and Craig, Eleanor, eds. Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion. Durham, NC, and London, 2021.Google Scholar
Kotsko, Adam. Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital. Palo Alto, CA, 2018.Google Scholar
Newheiser, David. Hope in a Secular Age. Cambridge, 2019.10.1017/9781108595100CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sanchez, Michelle Chaplin. Calvin and the Resignification of the World: Creation, Incarnation, and the Problem of Political Theology in the 1559 “Institutes.” Cambridge, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stern, Adam. Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy. Philadelphia, PN, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yelle, Robert A. Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion. Chicago, IL, 2019.Google Scholar
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