ESEJ O SAVREMENOJ POLITIČKOJ TEOLOGIJI
CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Political theology has been one of the most influential theological movements both in church life and academy during the last three decades. It emerged out of the turbulence of the 1960s and was first formulated by the Catholic theologian Johann Baptist Metz and the Protestant Jürgen Moltman. It was an attempt to positively meet the challenges of modernity, characterized by industrialization, urbanization, science, technology, market economy and a growing state and its various ideological backbones in liberalism and socialism, with their common beliefs in progress and in politics as a mean for consciously forming the future. Political theology emerged out of this socio-political and intellectual milieu. It was an attempt to positively meet the challenge to church and theology that modernity is. In this sense it has an apologetic intention. It wants to critically mediate the Christian tradition to the modern world. The modern project, understood as a demystification of nature and a concomitant humanization of the world, was interpreted 'in terms of Christian eschatology.

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