Pastoral Theology and the Problem of Political Violence

IF 0.7 0 RELIGION Journal of Pastoral Theology Pub Date : 2021-11-21 DOI:10.1080/10649867.2021.2005287
R. Lamothe
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ABSTRACT This article argues that political violence is unjustifiable as a basis of forming a polis. To make this case, a brief explication of the notions “political” and “political violence” is proffered. From here I claim that political violence is inimical to civic care and civic faith that founds a polis' space of speaking and acting together. I then shift to a Christian pastoral theological framework, arguing that political violence contradicts the revelation of the incarnation of Jesus Christ and is, therefore, unjustifiable. More specifically, the incarnation reveals a non-sovereign God of infinite, indeterminate care as the principle for organizing human relations-the ecclesia/polis. I also argue that Jesus' forgiveness of the Roman soldiers can be grasped in terms of Giorgio Agamben's notion of inoperativity, wherein the apparatuses and grammar of the terroristic forms of Roman political violence are rendered inoperative as a way of organizing human relations.
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教牧神学与政治暴力问题
摘要本文认为,政治暴力作为城邦形成的基础是不合理的。为了说明这一点,对“政治”和“政治暴力”的概念进行了简要的解释。从这里开始,我声称政治暴力不利于公民关怀和公民信仰,而公民关怀和信仰是建立一个共同说话和行动的城市空间的基础。然后,我转向基督教田园神学框架,认为政治暴力与耶稣基督化身的启示相矛盾,因此是不合理的。更具体地说,化身揭示了一个无限、不确定关怀的非主权上帝,作为组织人类关系的原则——教会/城邦。我还认为,耶稣对罗马士兵的宽恕可以从乔治·阿甘本的不可操作性概念中理解,在这种概念中,罗马政治暴力的恐怖形式的工具和语法作为组织人际关系的一种方式变得不可操作。
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