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Anderson reviews 'A Reader in African Christian Theology' edited by John Parratt.

This article examines Martin Luther's view of Natural theology and natural knowledge of God. Luther research has often taken a negative stance towards a possibility of Natural theology in Luther's thought. I argue, that one actually finds from Luther's texts a limited area of the natural knowledge of God. This knowledge pertains to the existence of God as necessary and as Creator, but not to what God is concretely. Luther appears to think that the natural knowledge of God is limited because of the relation between God and the Universe only one side is known by natural capacities. Scholastic Theology built on Aristotelianism errs, according to Luther, when it uses created reality as the paradigm for thinking about God. Direct experiential knowledge of the divinity, given by faith, is required to comprehend the divine being. Luther's criticism of Natural theology, however, does not appear to rise from a general rejection of metaphysics, but from that Luther follows certain ideas of Medieval Augustinian Platonism, such as a stark ontological differentiation between finite and infinite things, as well as the idea of divine uniting contradictions. Thus the conflict between faith and reason on Luther seems to be explicable at least in part as a conflict between two different ontological systems, which follow different paradigms of rationality.

"This new volume gives discursive shape to several key facets of the relationship among politics, theology and religious thought. Powerfully relevant to a wealth of further academic disciplines including history, law and the humanities, it sharpens the contours of our understanding in a live and evolving field. It charts the mechanisms by which, contrary to the avowed secularism of many of today's polities, theology and religion have often, and sometimes profoundly, shaped political discourse. By augmenting this broader analysis with a selection of authoritative papers focusing on the prominent sub-field of political theology, the anthology offsets a startling academic lacuna. Alongside focused analysis of subjects such as conscience, secularism and religious tolerance, the discussion of political theology examines the tradition's critical moments, including developments during the post-World War I Weimar republic in Germany and the epistemological imprint the theory has left behind in works by political thinkers influenced by the three major monotheistic traditions."--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Justice and Exodus -- Chapter 1. Defining Justice: Justice in the Ancient Near East and Israel -- Chapter 2. Justice Under Threat: Exodus 1–4 -- Chapter 3. Justice Championed: Exodus 5–15 -- Chapter 4. Summoned to Justice: Exodus 15–24 -- Chapter 5. Building for Justice: Exodus 25–40 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

The article examines the role of the family in Puritan theology, as expressd in popular and political sermons. It does not treat the extensive Puritan household manuals, nor does it argue that Puritan strictures on the family were especially unique or original. However, by examining the often figurative use of the family in Puritan theology, it argues that the Puritan obsession with the subject reflected a deep crisis in contemporary family relations and that the emotions produced by this crisis were then exploited by the preachers to create both Puritanism itself and the radical political ideology of the 1640s.

The 2007 publication, 'Homo Sacer II', 2, 'Il Regno e la Glória', is milestone in agambenana work. On the one hand, the project Homo Sacer that was to the genealogy of political power rides to new and decisive dimension: the paradigm of economic theology, which helps to explain more precisely the relationship between the kingdom and the government, and the reaches the biopolitical diagnosis. On the other hand, Agamben believes to have found this book the arcana of power: the glory. The conception of politic as administration, ὀιχονομία, government in which the omnipresence of the economy expands for all aspects of social life is index-cloaking movement that reaches the glory its maximum expression.

Can secularisation in the legal and political domains settle modernity's scores with religion?Anton Schütz and Marinos Diamantides provide a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. Questions the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitt's political theologyBuilds upon a refined version of Giorgio Agamben's close-reading of Christian government as managementIdentifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudenceConcludes that what the West's secular universality is passing off as 'politics' or 'law' is really an attempt to manage its own dwindling primacy

The article deals with Heidegger's attitudes towards theology. Heidegger, stating that existential philosophy and theology are incompatible, advances a thesis of not objectivating poetic thinking. Whereas, Ricoeur's biblical hermeneutics is based on his theory of metaphor. The lingual act here means the destruction of the old outlook for the sake of the new one. In this dramatic way cognition occurs as a meeting. The poetica thinking of the late Heidegger is also based on a meeting that covers both horizontal coexistence and vertical direction. The author raises the question whether the poetica thinking of the late Heidegger is not theological?