Revolutionary Love – Kierkegaard’s Gift Economy As A Religious Corrective To The Leveling Of The Public Sphere, Part 2 (Andrew Ball)
The following is the second insatallment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Kierkegaard’s Agapic Gift Economy In his late authorship Kierkegaard articulates the social ontology that has implicitly grounded his previous works, calling for his readership…
Revolutionary Love – Kierkegaard’s Gift Economy As A Religious Corrective To The Leveling Of The Public Sphere, Part 1 (Andrew Ball)
The following is the first of a three-part series. Though Kierkegaard is typically considered to be the consummate philosopher of the single individual, his critique of secular modernity and institutional Christendom provide us with greater insight into the place of…
“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 2 (James E. Willis, III)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Martin Hägglund: Democratic Socialism A philosophy of finite human time is one way to read Martin Hägglund’s recent This Life because time is of critical…
“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 1 (James E. Willis, III)
The Death of God theological movement of the mid-twentieth century serves as a productive starting place to consider spiritual violence in our time, or the forceful displacement of human relations in religious belief both as individuals and as a community.…
The Curious Whiteheadian Proclivity In Scheler’s Account Of God And Persons, Part 2 (J. Edward Hackett)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Geist und Drang Before talking about Scheler’s conception of the person. I should briefly discuss why it is that we are talking about Scheler’s…
The Curious Whiteheadian Proclivity In Scheler’s Account Of God And Persons, Part 1 (J. Edward Hackett)
The following is published in two parts. Phenomenological Intuition and the Personal Sphere Before explicating the underlying structure of Scheler’s panentheism, I wanted to take some time and explain what Scheler’s phenomenological method entails and how this phenomenological commitment, though…
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” And The Inhospitable State – Abrahamic Hospitality And The Limits Of Multiculturalism, Part 2 (Emily McAvan)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The Failure of Hospitality Yet even in the first bloom of his success in New York, it is clear that Changez’s acceptance is conditioned largely…
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” And The Inhospitable State – Abrahamic Hospitality And The Limits Of Multiculturalism, Part 1 (Emily McAvan)
The following is the first of a two-part series. “Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” (Romans 12:13 NIV) “he who believes in Allah and the Last Day should show hospitality to his guest” (Sahih Muslim hadith,…
Lacan And Pneumatology (Mark Murphy)
There has been much work on Lacan in describing his relationship to a Christological theology. We see this in work such as Žižek’s The Fragile Absolute and also in his dual work with John Milbank, The Monstrosity of Christ.[1] We…
The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 3 (Paul Maltby)
The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. A Non-Sacramental Nature End Times fiction must be distinguished from other literary genres by its conspicuous absence of local color, its lifeless mise-en-scène…