The Restrainer of Eschaton: Political Theologian Carl Schmitt and the Teaching of Katechon

• Main Authors: You-Da Pan, 潘佑達
• Other Authors: 顏厥安
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01092969223093964270

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 法律學研究所 === 101 === The Secondary Literatures of Carl Schmitt focus mainly on the contribution of law (on public law) or political thought in our country. Although according to the research of Heinrich Meier on Schmitt,the theology part of the Schmittian thought is also very important, even the most crucial part.In this thesis I will start from the concept of “Katechon”- the man/force who restrains the Lawless man in Pauline Letters, delays the Eschaton of the World,which Schmitt used offen in his writings.First, starting from the traditional biblical exegesis examing the different explanations of Katechon, thus we may understand on which tradtions Schmitt refer to ,on the conception of Katechon. Schmitt thought that the concept of Katechon may make a bridge between the history and the eschaton, therefore the world history is meaningful for Christianity. Although Schmitt indicates different kinds of Katechon in different writings, but we can simply conclude that Katechon is the anti-force against the Neuralizing technical time,so it replied the theological-historical view of Karl Lowith.Schmitt wanted to stop the world being management and technical by Katechon, and the Liberals want to decrease the political enemy-friend distinction by being management and technical, but as Agamben points out, the management and the political are both the two polar of one Apparatus, which originated from the Trinitian Doctrine of Christianity.So both their effort doomed to fail. The restrainer and the lawless both are the apparatus, so the way to stop the function of it is to let the king “parousia”, i.e sitting in the throne . The problem of political theology which intcludes Eschatology is that it lets the desire of staus-quo compass the hope of Eschaton.After all, the real Eschaton will never be retrained nor be accelerated.