Witchcraft, Human Nature, and Political Theology in Jean Bodin’s de la Démonomanie des sorciers
Jean Bodin (1530-1596) is most well-known as the thinker Carl Schmitt credits for modern absolutist sovereignty and political theology. Contemporary critics of sovereignty, following Schmitt, ascribe to Bodin a theological politics of obedience and the negation of individual and collective human fre...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Political theology |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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Political theology
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Bodin, Jean 1529-1596, De la démonomanie des sorciers
/ Politische Theologie
/ Theologische Anthropologie
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| RelBib Classification: | KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit NBE Anthropologie ZC Politik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Sovereignty
B Free Will B Witchcraft B démonomanie B Bodin B Political anthropology B Political Theology |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Jean Bodin (1530-1596) is most well-known as the thinker Carl Schmitt credits for modern absolutist sovereignty and political theology. Contemporary critics of sovereignty, following Schmitt, ascribe to Bodin a theological politics of obedience and the negation of individual and collective human freedom through authoritarian discipline (Cocks, Joan. On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). Yet, a dedicated study of Bodin’s own political theology remains wanting. His most extensive discussion of theology and law is in his more obscure work on the jurisprudence of witchcraft. In de la Démonomanie des sorciers (1580), Bodin provides a theological account of a divinely created rational order where benevolence and evil are at work in the world. Humans must exercise the free will to choose between them. Bodin’s theological anthropology anchors his political theology with important implications for the proper exercise of human political power within the natural and divine order. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1731064 |