The expression“theological turn” comes from Dominique Janicaud, who has used it in 1990 to designate the philosophical movement in France from 1975 to 1990. He notes that in those years philosophy has taken a decidedly theological agenda. It is the case of Lévinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry and Jean Louis Chrétien. The conversation he initiates was followed by Hent de Vries in 1999, when he published Philosophy and the Turn to Religion.

The fact is that many of the philosophers that are participating in such a “turn” have the mark of the political theology. In addition, the idea of an “intervention” of the theology in philosophy is covered by the meaning of the “political theology”. Which have been the different theological interventions in the philosophy since early modernity and which were the political consequences they had? Which consistence has this “theological turn”? More than a process we would like to speak of interventions.