POLITICAL THEOLOGY: GENESIS OF THE CONCEPT

Modern socio-political sciences associate «political theology» with the secularization of social world. The sacralization and theologization politics allow us to talk about formation a secular type political religiosity, replacing traditional religion in society. Political theology is understood as way thinking foundations power modern societies, whose symbolic structures, responsible for foundation order maintaining its coherence, are being destroyed experiencing crisis legitimacy. article attempts trace genesis concept theology, starting from Greco- Roman antiquity, by explicating key positions that influenced internal semantic dynamics conceptual development. As result, author concludes all categories oppositions underlying structural society somehow connected theological issues. It argued separate theological, political, or subordinate one other doomed failure advance, but it this struggle between presupposes «unity opposites», determines functioning theological-political «machine» Western