Theological foundations of the political power ontology

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the normative and theological foundations of political power origin and belongs to the field of political theology research. Despite the narrow field of research, the work is devoted to the study of a separate aspect of social life as a whole. The study of the theological foundations of political power was carried out within the framework of the neoinstitutional methodological paradigm, taking into account the data of hermeneutic analysis, which is an applied aspect of the work. Political power is considered by the authors in the framework of a broader aspect - the ontology of the social, as part of the fundamental layer of being. The authors, within the framework of the theological paradigm, considered the main ontological concepts of the political, analyzed the correlation of key political concepts - "power", "authority", and "sovereign". Various positions on understanding the essence of political power, as well as on the origin of this phenomenon in the historical and theological key are considered, the points of view of both domestic and foreign experts are studied.

The perils and promises of (post-) human salvation

“…In the present timeline, we see humans finally emerging victorious in their battle against Olyix and the latter are forced to even reconsider the veracity of their vision that they had received from their God, while in the future scenario that the Neána alien named Jessika projects before the humans and the one that unfolds in the Vayan future, we see humanity has already been conquered by the Olyix and the only way available for the humans now is to flee the Earth and to move away in self-replicating spaceships to as many planets across the galaxy as possible. Throughout the entire novel, we move through a tense atmosphere surcharged with doubt, dissimulation, deception, duplicity, and subterfuge, where the only thing that stands firm on an unshaken ground is Olyix's unwavering faith in their Divinity which too however is challenged but not destroyed by the time the third book draws near its end (Fyfe, 2002;Häkli, 2018;Gager, 1982;Schelkunov et al, 2021). Towards the very last moments, the AI named Gox Quint of the Olyix ship realizes that their vision of God might not be so unique and true after all as the human race combined with the aliens from Neana and Katos civilizations appear as a truly formidable force that has brought the Olyix to their knees.…”

“…One of the most defining characteristics of the Olyix spirituality and religious worldview is their insistence on the uniqueness and preciousness of the humans as one of the rarest kinds of sentient species who are fit for attaining transcendence (Sanders, 2016;Tipler, 2005;Tipler, 2005). Just as all the major world religions stress the specialty of the humans and attempt to formulate the worldview based on the liberation, emancipation, and transcendence of the humans through divine planning, the Olyix too, at first presents the human race in the most admiring and glorified ways imaginable.…”

Ibn Khaldun's concepts in the mirror of Arab political and economic identity

“…As mentioned above, we set ourselves the task to investigate, the ethnohistorical, spiritual, cultural, economic and political spheres of the life of the peoples of the Arab region in retrospect and dynamics using a systematic approach. At the same time, the analysis of this theoretical discourse testifies to the fact that little research has been done based on the traditions of the historical-logical method and the systems approach; a comprehensive examination of the role of traditional concepts in regulation of modern Arab political systems (Mohamed & Rosman, 2021;Schelkunov et al, 2021).…”