 | Radical Democracy and Political Theology Subjects: Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Death of God theology -- Political aspects; Political theology; Schmitt Carl 1888–1985; Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of modern democratic power, which does not rest with a centralized sovereign authority but operates as a diffuse social force. By linking radical democratic theory to a contemporary fascination with political theology, Robbins envisions the modern experience of democracy as a social, cultural, and political force transforming the nature of sovereign power and political authority. is professor and chair of religion and philosophy at Lebanon Valley College. He is the author of Between Faith and Thought: An Essay on the Ontotheological Condition and In Search of a Non-Dogmatic Theology , the editor of After the Death of God , coeditor of The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken , and associate editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory . |
