Christianity As A New Humanism – Historical, Theological, And Philosophical Reflections On The Bible, Hegel, And Robert Musil, Part 1 (Kurt Appel)

Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 3 (Florian Klug)

The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. Michel Foucault traced this connection between truth and existential dimension in his late studies on power and subjectivity by […]

Negative Theology And Its Problems: Barth And Marion, Lecture 3 (Johannes Zachhuber)

The following is the third lecture in an eight-lecture series.  I have described in last week’s lecture how, during the 19th century, some serious challenges arose to theological thinking about God. I have not included in this account cases of pure materialism or atheism which consist in little more than a denial of traditional claims […]

Rethinking Anselm’s Atonement Theory – “Unmaking” The Indebted Man (Ryne Beddard)

Throughout Church history Christians have used various images and illustrations to explain why God became a human and died, and why these actions have been considered by the tradition to be salvific. These are referred to as atonement theories, and in general they seek to answer three questions: How is humanity saved through Jesus? Who […]