Political Theology and Early Modernity

“This stellar collection of essays demonstrates why political theology in recent years has become such a vibrant area of critical inquiry. An unusually wide and brilliant range of scholars turn attention to the early modern period as the time when the relation of politics and theology receives a jolt that will have lasting consequence for modernity. Together in all their variety these essays provide a broad and solid base on which all future work on the subject will have to take place.” ― Margreta de Grazia, University of Pennsylvania

“Political Theology and Early Modernity is the most thorough and compelling statement on political theology to emerge from Renaissance studies, a definitive book that raises the stakes of current debates.”
  ― Renaissance Quarterly

 “This is an excellent volume. . . .Each essay makes a distinct contribution in its own right, but the value of this volume is ultimately found in the way in which the essays as a whole broaden and complicate the notion of political theology, without offering a unified perspective. Shifting political theology away from the paradigm installed by Schmitt toward multiple, and often unexpected, sites shows its pervasiveness, which in turn allows for reconsideration of the entanglement of the theological and the political not only in the past buti n the present as well. Indeed, as the volume shows, the questions and crises that constitute political theology in the early modern and modern periods still haunt the present. Political theology, then remains a pressing contemporary concern, and this volume should serve as an indispensable resource for negotiating its contours.” ― Reviews in Religion and Theology