How Shall We Be Governed? A Primer on Political Theology
Political theology has as one of its tasks trying to understand the notion of “authority.” Specifically, how divine authority relates to the authority of human government. Besides that, I submit that there are three key questions behind any political theology:
(1) How does God’s authority relate to the authority of the state?
(2) What type of authority does God delegate to the state; and
(3) What type of state should Christians support?
In this post, I’ll deal with the first two questions and in the following post I’ll look at the third question.