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Theocracy
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THEOCRACY. A species of government which claims to be immediately directed by God.
     2. La religion qui, dans l'antiquite, s'associa souvent au despotisms, pour regner. par son bras ou a son ombrage, a quelquefois tents de regner seule. Clest ce qu'elle appelait le regne de Dieu, la thiocratie. Matter, De l'influence des Moeurs sur les lois, et de l'influence dos Lois sur les moeurs, 189. Religion, which in former times, frequently associated itself with despotism, to reign, by its power, or under its shadow, has sometimes attempted to reign alone, and this she has called the reign of God, theocracy.



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I will ask if it is the theopolitics of power that pushes Caputo over the edge of philosophy, into a biblical theology: power as divine omnipotence, as ecclesial hierarchy, as messianic imperialism.
The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event by Keller, Catherine / Cross Currents
2) Progressive theopolitics might then entail an alternative temporality, the time of event-relations, in which our becoming together, now, makes possible but does not determine that which is to come tomorrow: a helical, fractal or rhizomatic kind of nonlinear progress.
Theopoetic/theopolitic by Keller, Catherine / Cross Currents
Revelation and Theopolitics will gain notice for being the first extended treatment of both Rosenzweig and Barth together, but in my view its value lies more in its being one of the few works of contemporary theology to suggest that the most intractable, and therefore the most interesting, concepts in twentieth-century theology are those of repentance and forgiveness.
Repenting of theology by Kavka, Martin / Cross Currents
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