Political theology assumes or depends, implicitly or explicitly, on historical narratives and empirical claims. For theologians making historical, socio‐cultural and economic claims an interdisciplinary use of several different methods is helpful, including a theologically and philosophically informed combination of historical narratives with social and economic quantitative methods. This argument is fleshed out by a critical analysis of historical and sociological claims about Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Protestantism in relation to liberalism and liberality, which are central to the argument of John Milbank’s and Adrian Pabst’s book The Politics of Virtue. They find the roots of an increasingly untenable abstract atomistic liberalism both in late medieval and Protestant (especially Calvinist) theology as well as in the dissenting nonconforming traditions that worked for the disestablishment of the Church. This very disestablishment is part of what creates modern liberalism. This article both sketches a partly alternative history to the one Milbank and Pabst provide, pointing to the role of creative minorities in certain dissenting Protestant churches and movements for the emergence of the type of liberality Milbank and Pabst defend, and tests these claims against quantitative social science studies on democracy, social trust, and corruption.

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天主教，新教和自由主义/自由主义的激进正统思想：论政治神学中历史叙事和定量方法的使用

政治神学隐含或明确地假定或取决于历史叙事和经验主张。对于提出历史，社会文化和经济主张的神学家，跨学科使用几种不同的方法是有帮助的，包括将历史叙事与社会和经济定量方法相结合的神学和哲学知识。对有关天主教与自由主义和自由主义的天主教，英国国教和新教的历史和社会学主张的批判性分析充实了这一论点，这些主张是约翰·米尔班克和阿德里安·帕布斯特的《美德政治》的论点的核心。他们发现了中世纪晚期和新教（尤其是加尔文主义）神学以及为教会的瓦解而产生的异议不相称的传统中，一种越来越站不住脚的抽象原子主义自由主义的根源。这种非常混乱的状况是造成现代自由主义的一部分。本文既勾勒了米尔班克和帕布斯特所提供的一部分替代历史，指出了创造性少数派在某些异议的新教教会和运动中为米尔班克和帕布斯特所捍卫的自由类型的出现所发挥的作用，并针对定量的社会性对这些主张进行了检验。关于民主，社会信任和腐败的科学研究。