The Dialectics of Neutralization: Christianity and the Crisis of Politics

In the present global crisis of political institutions, it is urgent and necessary to search for a renewed legitimization of them . But this quest is sensible only if politics is considered as a domain that cannot be founded on itself, i.e. as a domain that needs to be in relation with something else-some kind of truth that comes before it and can give it some kind of legitimization. Therefore, our quest can be expressed in the following question: what is the relationship between the political domain and the truth which is supposed to back it? In order to play its role this truth must be independent from the political domain, non-conditioned by it. In other words, we can solve our initial problem only if we look at it from the viewpoint of what some contemporary political philosophers call the theological-political question, defined as «the denial of reducing the political sphere to the immanent dimension and as the assertion that every power is constituted by an essential reference to some kind of truth» . This approach will lead us to ask another question: can Christianity contribute to the common good in contemporary post-secular societies? And how?