Political Theology in the Early Christianity

Abstract

Study of the political theology of the first Christians, from the 1st century to the V, on two models: radical model and mediator model. The radical model considers the Roman Empire as essentially evil and therefore doomed to disappear. The mediator model includes the Empire and the social ties from a more pragmatic point of view: it is something inevitable, so we must seek paths of reconciliation between society and faith experience. In turn, within the radical model it differs between the millennialism model or apocalyptic and the dissident o disaffected model, whereas conciliator distinguishes in a model of pragmatic coexistence, a capillary model and an imperial model, that was the one that finally was imposed, in two versions: oriental or caesaropapism and western, with a secular power submitted to the instance of the Church.