Schmitt asserted an intense continuity between theology and politics.

Evidence

When he comes to defining “the enemy in the political sense,” Carl Schmitt makes a surprising gesture, a gesture in which, as Derrida notes in another context, Schmitt appears “to defend himself from being a theologian.” Here, the fundamental distinction, the cut, between theology and politics that Schmitt’s entire oeuvre was engaged in questioning, would thus be affirmed and reproduced. One of Schmitt’s essential contributions, which informs everything that follows here, is to have underscored the intensity of the continuity between theology and politics. The moment where that continuity comes undone and where it is actively denied in Schmitt’s text is what will occupy us here. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 277