This is the eighth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent lecture can be found here. The paper these lectures support is entitled “God, Christ, and Salvation”, but of these it seems that only the first two are actually…
God As Person and Trinity, Lecture 7 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the seventh lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The possibility that God is person has often been denied. It has been pointed out that the concept of person in order…
God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the sixth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. I started the last couple of lectures with elaborate explanations of the meaning and the relevance of the topic. This seems less…
“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 3 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)
The following is the final of a three-part series. The first installation can be found here, the second here. The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in January, 2019. There are a number of issues here to which our…
“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 2 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installation can be found here. The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in January, 2019. Trans Allegheny Frontier Enclaves David Morgan was certainly not alone in his…
“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe), Part 1
The following is the first of a three-part installment. The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in January, 2019. “Damn it, he’s an Injun!” The settlers on the upper waters of the Monongahela often went in canoes…
Review – Performance Apophatics (John Matthew Allison)
Claire Maria Chambers. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Hardback. 301 pages. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics (hereafter Performance Studies) is a book about the limits of knowledge. Drawing upon a variety of fields…
Review – Decolonizing Dialectics (Josiah Solis)
Ciccariello-Maher, George. Decolonizing Dialectics. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2017. 256 pages. ISBN-10: 0822362430. Hardcover, paperback, e-book. “Truly to escape Hegel,” Michele Foucault warns, “involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him.” Considering that…
God and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the fifth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The existentialist approach you heard about last week emphasized the individual aspect of human interaction with God: the reality of God is…
Religion And Mental Health – The Therapuetic Value Of The Teachings of Jesus, Part 2 (Thomas Roberts and Delbert Hayden)
The following is the second part in a two-part installment. You can find the first part here. Maintaining a State of Hope and Taking a Transcendent Perspective about Human Worries One indicator of mental health is the ability to maintain…