Talk:Political theology

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I added more content and six sources, the article now covers various uses of the term, not just one man's use of it. Nick mallory 15:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Someone please explain what political theology is. I followed a link here from the Bakunin entry, nothing here explains how his thought relates to teh topic, though he is mentioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.171.156.23 (talk) 20:43, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would appreciate an answer to this question, too. Elalma (talk) 20:49, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

First paragraph of ME needs to be discussed. Right now speculative, without references etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elalma (talk • contribs) 20:48, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Actually, the term "theology" is no longer used exclusively to define Christian theology in modern academia. There are plenty of articles and books about "Confucian theology", "Islamic theology". The article needs expansion rather than renaming. "Political theology" is central to religions like Confucianism and Islam, maybe more than in the modern, extremely fragmented and porous Christian religion or what remains of it.--

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I don't dispute the growing use of the term "Confucian theology," but simply am stating it is less common. Point is taken—especially since the Theology article is more than about Christianity, which is contrasted from Christian theology. This is why I would rather just rename these articles as "Christian political theology" and "Christian political theology (China)", etc., and allow for a new article to be written about "Political theology" and "Political theology in China." Caorongjin (talk) 11:29, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The counterargument to this suggestion is that Christian political theology cannot easily be separated from Islamic and Jewish political theology in some contexts; namely, it can't be separated from the other Abrahamic religions regarding medieval political philosophy/theology. Muslim scholars maintained and preserved Platonic and Aristotelean philosophy for centuries, and were consulted by European theologians. This is not to reject Caorongjin's points, but rather, an article on Christian political theology would itself require an article on political theology more broadly. I think it would be better to resolve the limited scope of the article than change its title to Christian political theology and start fresh.

BornOn8thOfJuly (talk) 04:46, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply

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I think "Rewrite" is the key thing here. Political theology is a disciplinary field, and the article can be improved to make that clearer and flesh it out much more. Cleopatran Apocalypse (talk) 05:05, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]