Vanhoillislestadiolaisuus ja esivallan poliittinen teologia

Authors

• Tapio Nykänen

Abstract

Conservative Laestadianism is the biggest revival movement inside Finnish Lutheran Church with approximately 120 000 members. In this article I analyze the concept of authorities in movements’ teaching. Analysis is based on Carl Schmitt’s theory of political theology. Schmitt’s fundamental idea is that secular political concepts share the same “form” with theological concepts and political and religious ideas are thus on conceptual relationship. My argument is that in the teaching of Conservative Laestadianism the concept of authorities can be seen as counterpart for the concept of one, deistic God.