Sacrament and Oath: A Theological-Political Displacement
This article pays attention to the historical displacement of the meaning of the word sacramentum at the moment in which theological reflection appropriates the civil meaning. By addressing this historical displacement, the present article reflects not only on the theological-political character of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2018
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Political theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-49 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Roman Empire
/ Latin
/ Noun
/ Sacramentum
/ Church
/ Sacrament
/ Oath
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| IxTheo Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBP Sacramentology; sacraments XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
Oath
B Word B political-theology B Sacramentum B Sacrament |
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| Summary: | This article pays attention to the historical displacement of the meaning of the word sacramentum at the moment in which theological reflection appropriates the civil meaning. By addressing this historical displacement, the present article reflects not only on the theological-political character of oaths, but also on the complex inventive character of political theology. In fact, that kind of appropriation involves multiple transferences of meanings from one realm to another - the political and the religious, what is constitutive of the theological-political approach. Attempting to grasp the topic, this article first examines the Biblical meanings of oath, covenant and sacrament; second, it looks at the meaning of sacramentum in the classical Roman tradition; and, finally, it recovers the meaning of sacrament in Tertullian, who is primarily responsible for the coinage of the term for theological reflection. |
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| Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 1-2 February-March 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2017.1383549 |