For most practitioners, political theology is a vocation, a calling that illuminates our lived reality. It is, as Sheldon Wolin says of political theory, not only about the polity but for the polity. Political theology investigates the ways in which our theological concepts inform our collective existence and political experiences. As with Wolin’s vision of political theory, political theology is “not so much interested in political practices, or how they operate, but in their meaning.” The task of the political theologian is to unearth the “unthought” that informs our political, economic, and social practices which makes a metaphysical account of society not only inevitable but necessary.
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