THE CONTROVERSY OF THE POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND ITS CURRENT VALIDITY

In the Post 11-S world we witness a resurgence of political theology as a mundane and academic phenomenon. The current discussions take up this discipline in very similar terms to those used in the 1970s in the controversy over the "liquidation of political theology", in which the mean experts on international political philosophy participated. In this article we expose the fundamental arguments of that discussion, in order to show the contributions that this classic polemic could offer to the current geopolitical situation. In the first place, we will develop the debate according to its argumentative structure, following the interventions of the protagonists of the dispute and its historical antecedents. Next, we will show how it became clear that political theology not only preceded the Christian tradition but was also part of modern philosophy. We conclude by mentioning the recovery of the discipline that some authors propose in the current geopolitical context.