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Religion and Society in the Light of a Political Theology*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

John B. Metz
Affiliation:
University of Münster Germany

Extract

The object of this paper of itself demands to be unfolded in two considerations: one, reflecting on the meaning and the task of “political theology” (I), the other, investigating the relations between religion and society in the light of this “political theology” (II).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1968

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References

1 Gehlen, A., quoted from Schelsky, H., Auf der Suche nach Wirklichkeit (Düsseldorf, 1965), 271Google Scholar.

2 Schlier, H., Besinnung auf das Neue Testament (Freiburg, 1964), 193Google Scholar. See also Schlier, H., Die Zeit der Kirche (Freiburg, 1956), 310Google Scholar.

3 Cf. Gehlen, A., Anthropologische Forschung (Hamburg, 1961), 76Google Scholar.

4 Cf. on this matter Lübbe, H., Herrschaft und Planting, in Die Frage nach dem Menschen (Freiburg-Munchen, 1966), 188211Google Scholar.