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Abstract

Religious experience and political experience have survived, despite the fact that Modernity and our age have often tried to reduce the political to a field of technical relations and administrative procedures. In this context, it is necessary to formulate the philosophical question about the value and legitimacy of the relationship between both fields in its contemporary version. This article investigates, firstly, the notion of legitimacy based on Schmitt's work, to understand the origins and symbolic dependence of the aforementioned relationship. This inquiry will show a tension between two experiences: the expectation of the apocalyptic and the “administration” of time (katechon), which runs through all theological reflection. Second, it will be seen from Voegelin the necessary risk that is run in all political action. Finally, it will be shown from Taubes and Metz how the monotheistic tradition of the memory of the Law and of suffering postulates the weight of an authority that allows a possible horizon from which to judge and limit the deficits of all political-religious action, and how the tension between the two experiences can be sustained.