ABSTRACT

Politics principally precedes the activity of governing or leading people. It is the act and tact of persuasion by which the expression becomes political. It is the science that crafts and craves for leadership by an objective process of selecting leaders in a given community. In the human domain, this process follows the logic of careful selection by canvassing for votes, persuading and attracting people if it is by democratic process. In the human world, there are many and diverse theories of politics, which involve democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, communism, and socialism. A closer look at the divine plan, politics is void; it is elicited as theocracy: leadership by divine authority and power. Employing a constructive and analytical methodology, the research unveils the nuances and intricacies that emerge as humans go out in quest for political leadership, yet God is beyond politics; He is divine authority. The Incarnation is a doctrine that invites us to the leadership of Jesus Christ. It is given to humanity to yearn for heaven, to submit to the act of establishing the heavenly city on earth. The human city, therefore, is needed to prepare for the heavenly city, as the two are states of beings; the former temporal, leading to the immortal state of perfection in the latter, the perfect and final destination of all human beings.