Political Theology - Theology of the State

Schmidt endorses the famous phrase of thomas hobbs, octoritas non veritas facit legem. He recognizes that what matters for the reality of legal life is who decides. The important question is who is competent to do so. This cannot be answered in states of exception by looking to legal norms. It is authority, not truth, that makes the law. Schmidt: All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.