E-SUPPLEMENT TO THE JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS THEORY
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Translated by Philipp Schlögl. Letters II: The Schematism of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding as Starting Point In a letter of January 26, 1795, addressed by Hölderlin from Jena to his friend Hegel, who was staying in Bern, he […]
What does Walter Benjamin’s work suggest about religion and the methods of studying it? This special issue of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Studies (JCRT) offers new perspectives on Benjamin and religion. Many studies consider Benjamin’s engagement with Judaism. Others, fewer in number, consider the role of Christianity, usually framed as theology, in his work. A third area […]
The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Translated by Philipp Schlögl. Introductory Remarks Friederich Hölderlin’s famous quote “Thus all Religion would be poetic in its essence.” (EaL 239)[1], which is taken from the Fragments of Philosophical Letters (1796/97, EaL 234-239)[2], does not represent a mere rapturous exclamation of the poet who wants to […]
The following is the first installment of a two-part series. In 1895, when Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity School of Christianity, first became a vegetarian, she said that “the appetite left me without my even thinking about it and I am sure I outgrew the demand for murdered things” (37). One realizes upon hearing […]
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 addressed. You have heard eight lectures about “God”. So, what about salvation? Is this at […]
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 to make sense to us needs limitations which we wouldn’t not willingly ascribe to God. […]
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 necessary today. That theology as the task of thinking and speaking about God is closely […]
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 interpretive analysis must be drawn: First of all, we need to note the immense attention […]
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 disdain for the aboriginal Peoples of this continent, nor, in the final analysis did he […]
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 and flat-boats to Fort Pitt, where they exchanged skins, furs, jerked venison, and other products […]