sentences:  The recent use of the term is often associated with the work of Carl Schmitt.Writing amidst the turbulence of the German Weimar Republic, Schmitt argued in his essay "Politische Theologie" (1922) that the main concepts of modern politics were secularized versions of older theological concepts.Mikhail Bakunin had used the term in his 1871 text "The Political Theology of Mazzini and the International" to which Schmitt's book was a response.