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political theology  

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  • The earliest antecedents to speaking of political theology might be found in the distinction, current among the Stoic philosophers and followed by Varro, then disparaged by St. Augustine in his City of God, between mythical, physical, and civil theology. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Political Theology]

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