SPEAKING (OR NOT SPEAKING) OF GOD

 

Included in this special edition are essays and articles derived from presentations at the conference “Speaking (Or Not Speaking) of God”, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, October 2017.  The conference was co-sponsored by the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver.

 

Author Bios

 

Speaking (Or Not Speaking) of God

 

How to Avoid the God Who Chooses: Denials

Michael Oliver, University of Oxford

 

Plundering a Theory of Trauma

Roger Green, Metropolitan State University

 

God’s Absence as Textual Presence: The Radical (Literary) Theology of Northrop Frye

Daniel Fishley, Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto

 

If the Qur’an is God’s Speech, How Does God Speak?

Divine Speaking in Contemporary Muslim Discourse

Andrea Stanton, University of Denver

 

Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness: Reflections from a Jew

Sarah Pessin, University of Denver

 

Divine Absence as Divine Presence

Joshua Giardino

 

Spring in Italy: Anna Karenina and the God Who May Be

Emily McAvan, Monash University

 

Speaking God’s Presence and Absence as Non-Contrastive Transcendent Distinction

Joyce Ann Konigsburg

 

Additional Articles

 

Lutheran Theology and Postmodern Philosophy

Olli-Pekka Vaino

 

John the Possibilizer:

The Promise of a Kearnian Baptismal Hermeneutic

Eric Trozzo, Sabah Theological Seminary

 

Religious Studies and Comparative Theology:

An Appraisal

Joshua Samuel, Union Theological Seminary

 

Admitting a Certain Fear of Žižek’s Theology:

A Modest Plea for a Deleuzean Reading of the Death of God

Elijah Prewitt-Davis, Drew University

 

Mischief, Idolatry, and the Demonic:

Toward a Hermeneutic of Play

Kevin Lewis, University of South Carolina

 

From Christology to Political Theology

Cyril Hovorun, Loyola Marymount University

 

Beyond Religious Ideas:

The Legacy of Max Weber in Critical Theory and Critical Religion

Joel Harrison, Northwestern University

 

New Religions in Brazil:

A Game Between Relativism and Fundamentalism

Silas Guerriero, Pontifical Catholic University

 

Prayer After the Death of God

Ashley Graham, Emory University

 

The Danger of Dealing with Derrida:

Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate

on the “Religious” Reading of Deconstruction

Neal DeRoo, The King’s University