The Hidden God: Luther, Philosophy, and Political Theology (Philosophy of Religion)

In this phenomenological reading of Luther, Marius Timmann Mjaaland shows that theological discourse is never philosophically neutral and always politically loaded. Raising questions concerning the conditions of modern philosophy, religion, and political ideas, Marius Timmann Mjaaland follows a dark thread of thought back to its origin in Martin Luther. Thorough analyses of the genealogy of secularization, the political role of the apocalypse, the topology of the self, and the destruction of metaphysics demonstrate the continuous relevance of this highly subtle thinker.rabbi Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 16 PART I: The Topology of Texts and Destruction of Metaphysics......Page 20 1. History, Hermeneutics, and Political Theology......Page 22 2. Philosophy: The Grammar of Destruction......Page 26 3. Topology......Page 35 PART II: Sola Scriptura......Page 40 4. The Quest for Immorality......Page 42 5. The Quest for Destruction......Page 53 6. The Quest for Clarity......Page 64 7. The Quest for Sovereignty......Page 83 8. The Quest for Subjectivity......Page 97 PART III: The Hidden God......Page 102 9. Deus Absconditus......Page 104 PART IV: Modernity in the Making......Page 124 10. Topology of the Self in Luther......Page 126 11. Kant versus Luther on Self-Consciousness......Page 140 12. Spacing the Hidden God: The Temporal/Spatial Divide......Page 148 PART V: From Revelation to Revolution......Page 152 13. The Power of Interpretation: Controversies on the Book of Daniel......Page 154 14. Political Theology of the German Revolutions......Page 169 15. The Hidden God of Revolution and Apocalypse......Page 182 Notes......Page 196 Bibliography......Page 226 B......Page 236 D......Page 237 E......Page 238 G......Page 239 H......Page 240 K......Page 241 L......Page 242 N......Page 243 P......Page 244 R......Page 245 S......Page 246 T......Page 247 Z......Page 248