ABSTRACT
This chapter intends to demonstrate that Christian monotheism has sprung from a particular take on metaphysics and lends itself to mono-logic within religion, economics and politics. Monotheism came to signal civilization and advancement and it is in this capacity that it became a central component of empire in the hands of a variety of European states. Jurgen Moltmann has argued that this is inevitable because monotheism sits best with theocracy. Within Christian theology, the issue of monotheism also throws into relief the issue of transcendence. Soelle work will never allow the divine to escape to the outer reaches of reality and who always understood theological questions to be deeply embedded in the personal sense of identity, which is always political. The essay on Discipline and Punish solved a problem in arguing that the empirical mixtures of institutional power and discursive knowledge found in particular institutions was not the source of an annoying incoherence.
