“Real possibility” or “Impossible reality”? Carl Schmitt’s Theo-Political Hyphen and Inventive Theology | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
2004
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Volume 77, Issue 4
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Abstract

This paper explores the concept of the “theo-political” within the paradigm of inventive theology. Such a theology methodologically abstracts from classical dogmatic or hermeneutic content. It asks primarily the question of the possibility of believing and making to believe. Informed by philosophical rhetoric (amongst others, Chaim Perelman) and postmodern critique, inventive theology proposes to be before becoming a practice of idea-construction. Postmodern theology is no longer a standalone operation or a master-discourse, but a practice of connectiveness, a theology of and in relation to . The in the notion of the “theo-political” marks this interdependency of theological and—in this case—political approaches. The paper analyzes Schmitt’s insights in the theo-political in three steps. After sketching out briefly his , it will speculatively reconstruct Schmitt’s to revert to his (non-outspoken) theology as it appears in his worldview. Then it will connect Schmitt’s with the paradigm and will close with some brief remarks on liberal-inventive theo-politics. could then be defined as “talking-cure” that will hinder the effectuation of Schmitt’s of politics by working semantic and ethical “inventiveness” in the Messianic light of the

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Keyword(s): belief; Carl Schmitt; eschatology; inventive theology; ontology; pistology; political theology; postmodern thought; rhetoric

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