Mark I. Wallace. When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 240 pages. ISBN-10: 0823281310. A simple two-bedroom house sits along a busy street in a suburban neighborhood in the…
Christianity As A New Humanism – Historical, Theological, And Philosophical Reflections On The Bible, Hegel, And Robert Musil, Part 4 (Kurt Appel)
The following is the fourth installment of the second contribution to a series of articles corresponding to chapters of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus (Freiburg im Bresgau: Verlag Herder, 2015), edited by Kurt Appel, translated by Rachel Thomas. …
Christianity As A New Humanism – Historical, Theological, And Philosophical Reflections On The Bible, Hegel, And Robert Musil, Part 3 (Kurt Appel)
The following is the third installment of the second contribution to a series of articles corresponding to chapters of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus (Freiburg im Bresgau: Verlag Herder, 2015), edited by Kurt Appel, translated by Rachel Thomas. …
Introduction To “The Price Of Our Mortality” (Kurt Appel)
The following is the first of a series of articles corresponding to chapters of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus (Freiburg im Bresgau: Verlag Herder, 2015), edited by Kurt Appel, translated by Rachel Thomas. English editor, Carl…
Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness – Reflections From A Jew, Part 1 (Sarah Pessin)
The following is the first of a two-part installment. This article can also be downloaded in PDF format from the Spring 2019 issue (Vol. 18, No. 2) of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. Claustrophobia at the Christian Table…
Embodiment And The Experience Of The Divine (James Mensch)
At the outset of Genesis, we are presented with two different pictures of God. The first depicts God as the creator of the world and, thus, as transcendent to it. This implies that we cannot understand his creative action in…
Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Used by Auden in concert with “limitation” to qualify boundaries proper to secular aesthetics in modernity, the term “absurd” in its Kierkegaardian sense…
Review – Digital Technologies and Religion in the Postmodern Era (Albert McClure)
Han, Sam. Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity. Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society 19. New York: Routledge, 2016. ISBN-10: 1138855863. Hardback, e-book. 142 pages. In Technologies of Religion Sam Han discusses religions’ relationships…
Theodicy of Money – The Scene and Subject of Forgiveness (Timothy Snediker)
Today the question of debt forgiveness has become an eminently practical, not to mention political, question. From sovereign debt crises in Greece, Spain, Puerto Rico and elsewhere, to ballooning student debt bubbles, to the aftermath of the mortgage crisis, it…
Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology”, Part 2
The following is Part 2 of a 3-part series by Victor Taylor on how one might reflect theologically on Jesus and the Christian message from a Derridean perspective that departs significantly from the work of John D. Caputo. The first…