Theopolitics

Recall this post from Ning IPS referencing "Theopoetic/Theopolitic" by Keller and Caputo. The linked thread on religion and politics is quite good. IPS forum has a virtual wealth of research, ideas and exceptional exposition worthy of encyclopedic publication. An excerpt:

Keller: "Progressive theopolitics [...] does need concurrence on the formal criteria of progress: the actualization of social, ecological and planetary relations of justice with sustainability. [...] The more theology absorbs the methods of deconstruction and pluralism, the more the opposition between secularism and religion can itself be deconstructed. [...] Indeed ironically it may have been Hardt and Negri, those radically democratic and secular socialists, who kicked me into the evangelical register."