TEOLOGÍA POLÍTICA: LA AUTORIDAD DE DIOS

Abstract

The author puts forward a moderate version of political and moral theology, in which authority and sovereignty have content which is independent of religious theological frame, yet these notions are in the grip of a theological picture of the world. To be in a grip of a picture is to confuse a model of reality with reality without being aware of it.

So what the author does is to explore an idea of authority as if depicted by a religious picture. Indeed, it is a picture not the picture. It is the picture of God as the supreme decision maker without Him being a deliberator. The author calls it the decisionist picture of God.

It is the genealogy of authority that he is interested in. He advances his genealogy into the idea of authority in three stages: First, dealing with the authority of God. Second, the authority of the messengers of the word of God. Third, dealing with the authority of the word of God, namely with the authority of the scriptures.