Roman Catholicism and Political Form

A translation of Carl Schmitt's classic explanation of the nature and historical/sociological significance of political Catholicism.

While exploring and elaborating the meaning of "political theology" in Germany in the 1920s, Carl Schmitt had occasion to address the question of the relation between Roman Catholicism and the post-modern world. This work presupposes an affinity between Catholicism and political thinking.The relationship between economic and political thinking has reached a crisis at the end of the 20th century. Already at the beginning of this century, in Roman Catholicism and Political Form, Carl Schmitt juxtaposed a juridical interpretation of religion oriented to the political sphere to Max Weber's sociological interpretation oriented to the economic sphere in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. According to G. L. Ulmen, translator of Roman Catholicism and Political Form