Not right: Expanding ‘political theory theology’ towards a material ‘empirical political theology’ of the oppressed

Francis Davis
28 September 2026, The Tablet

Why has political theology paid so little attention to the realities it claims to address? To understand power, injustice and the lives of the oppressed, theology needs better tools

Seeking disciplinary innovation
My aim in this article is to develop my earlier calls for an empirical political theology by advancing an argument for a deliberate methodological expansion of political theology.1 This proposal also has implications for urgent pastoral challenges.

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