Description
The turn towards theology within political ontology and post-secular philosophy has grown in recent years. Such approaches have sought to reinvigorate metaphysical discussions around universality by drawing upon the work of various theologians and theological accounts of universality, messianism, love, and justice. However, many such approaches have remained trapped in a particularly bracketed canon of theological work. Beyond direct engagements with the theological, there is a trend in wider political ontology to firmly prioritise the ontological over the ontical (worldly), in the hopes that eschewing particular commitments, an anti-fascist and anti-liberal universality can be achieved. These two trends will be parochialized from the theological perspective of James H. Cone. Cone, a Black Liberation Theologian, issues the challenge that to remain politically relevant, theologians must think beyond the pages of a particular kind of white theology. Further, his work points to the limits of disembedded metaphysics. This article will draw attention to a deeper theological narrative of disembedded-ness, raising questions about the efficacy of disembedded metaphysics for resisting the ever-present risk of a slide toward fascism.
