Teologia, filosofia e política: a democracia como sistema e visão

The unfinished journey that led to contemporary democratic regimes was unleashed both by the institutional systems created in ancient Athens as by the vision of inclusion generated in ancient Israel, a datum omitted in conventional narratives about democracy. Thus, theological and philosophical categories of the Judeo-Christian matrix are as indispensable as political categories to understand what is vision and what is system in the world of democracy. Without that Judeo-Christian matrix, any criticism of socialism degenerates into plain neo-liberalism and any criticism of liberalism turns into ideological socialism, two variants of uniform thought without a dialogical dimension.