the majority of modern Christian theological and eccleasial projects operate as colonies of the Tubingen empire
, where they
assume the neutrality of other sciences, receive the objective findings of such neutral sciences, and then seek to correlate the claims of Christian confession with these facts — thus furnishing , indirectly, an apologetic demonstration of the truth of Christian revelation.
p.148, IRO
I suppose that the framework of the “just war” theory could fall into this “trap” where the underlying assumptions of “neccessary violence” and “defensive neccessity” would override any radical Christian notion of lovingone’s enemies, or not returning evil for evil.
In particular, the broad shape of what it is to know, or questions of being, are determined by the neutral discourse of philosophy and metaphysics; Christian theology then builds on these neutral or natural axioms and offers a theological supplement of what it means to know Christ, or what it means to say that God “is”.
A “theological supplement” of what it emans to know Christ. That’s kind of scary.
Yes, I think “just war” theory is very correlationist in the sense that Tubingen is correlationist. For some reason, back in the day, Christians needed to find an excuse to kill others, so they correlated themselves to the world of violence. That’s sort of a crude way to put it, but that doesn’t make it any less true.