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Raschke This article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Taylor’s typification of postmodernism as Flatland, however, as the quintessential [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/what-exactly-is-postmodernism-and-how-did-it-change-the-landscape-of-religious-studies-part-2-carl-raschke/) ![Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 3 (Rebekah Howes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/02/socrates_statue_at_the_louvre_8_april_2013.webp) ### [Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 3 (Rebekah Howes)](/religioustheory/posts/hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-3-rebekah-howes/) February 11, 2023 — By Rebekah Howes The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The earlier article by Prof The earlier article by Prof. [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-3-rebekah-howes/) ![Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 2 (Rebekah Howes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/02/hegel-dancing.webp) ### [Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 2 (Rebekah Howes)](/religioustheory/posts/hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-2-rebekah-howes/) January 30, 2023 — By Rebekah Howes The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-2-rebekah-howes/) ![Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 1 (Rebekah Howes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/02/hegel_042.webp) ### [Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 1 (Rebekah Howes)](/religioustheory/posts/hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-1-rebekah-howes/) January 12, 2023 — By Rebekah Howes The following is the first of a three-part series. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found here It highlights key arguments [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-1-rebekah-howes/) ![Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/12/rodin_the_thinker_p1070090.webp) ### [Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-3-erik-meganck/) December 29, 2022 — By Erik Meganck The following is the third of a three part-series. The first can be found here, the second here. Where planning fails, despair grows Planning is also faithless. [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-3-erik-meganck/) ![The Futurity Of God, Part 2 (Lenart Škof)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/12/800px-apophysis_cyclone.webp) ### [The Futurity Of God, Part 2 (Lenart Škof)](/religioustheory/posts/the-futurity-of-god-part-2-lenart-skof/) December 16, 2021 — By Lenart Škof The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. In a chapter titled “The Magic of Being Mormon”, Stephen H It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-futurity-of-god-part-2-lenart-skof/) ![The Futurity Of God, Part 1 (Lenart Škof)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/12/visnow_example_visualization_-_molecular_electrostatics.webp) ### [The Futurity Of God, Part 1 (Lenart Škof)](/religioustheory/posts/the-futurity-of-god-part-1-lenart-skof/) December 2, 2021 — By Lenart Škof God, if we hold to this word, is the future itself, or rather the eternal reservoir beyond time and creating time, who constantly projects himself or pours [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-futurity-of-god-part-1-lenart-skof/) ![The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 1 (Michael C. Raubach)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/11/800px-wandbild_portrait_george_floyd_von_eme_street_art_im_mauerpark_berlin.webp) ### [The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 1 (Michael C. Raubach)](/religioustheory/posts/the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-michael-c-raubach/) November 4, 2021 — By Michael C. Raubach In her 1992 masterpiece, The Broken Middle, the philosopher Gillian Rose explored what she saw as a baleful crisis of ethics in modern political discourse [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-michael-c-raubach/) ![“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 2 (N.E. Boulting](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/05/fishing-pole.webp) ### [“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 2 (N.E. Boulting](/religioustheory/posts/scale-relative-ontology-and-simone-weils-spiritual-philosophy-part-2-n-e-boulting/) May 18, 2021 — By N. E. Boulting The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Two not unrelated factors result in her rejection of ‘the New Science’ besides [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/scale-relative-ontology-and-simone-weils-spiritual-philosophy-part-2-n-e-boulting/) ![“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 1 (N.E. Boulting)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/05/2014-08-25-simoneweilcroquis-byth-rioult.webp) ### [“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 1 (N.E. Boulting)](/religioustheory/posts/scale-relative-ontology-and-simone-weils-spiritual-philosophy-part-1-n-e-boulting/) May 11, 2021 — By N. E. Boulting Can the debilitating effects of Scientism – identifying knowledge solely “with science” – be overcome? To answer that question, Simone Weil’s treatment of her [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/scale-relative-ontology-and-simone-weils-spiritual-philosophy-part-1-n-e-boulting/) ![The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 1 (Alberto Urquidez)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/07/rubens-les_miracles_de_saint_benoit.webp) ### [The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 1 (Alberto Urquidez)](/religioustheory/posts/the-religious-significance-of-miracles-why-humes-critique-is-superfluous/) July 14, 2020 — By Alberto Urquidez The argument from miracles seeks to prove that a religious deity (such as God) exists on the premise that only God could have caused a miracle to occur [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-religious-significance-of-miracles-why-humes-critique-is-superfluous/) ![Revolutionary Love – Kierkegaard’s Gift Economy As A Religious Corrective To The Leveling Of The Public Sphere, Part 2 (Andrew Ball)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/05/img_6506.webp) ### [Revolutionary Love – Kierkegaard’s Gift Economy As A Religious Corrective To The Leveling Of The Public Sphere, Part 2 (Andrew Ball)](/religioustheory/posts/revolutionary-love-kierkegaards-gift-economy-as-a-religious-corrective-to-the-leveling-of-the-public-sphere-part-2-andrew-ball/) May 23, 2020 — By Andrew J. Ball The following is the second insatallment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. In his late authorship Kierkegaard articulates the social ontology [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/revolutionary-love-kierkegaards-gift-economy-as-a-religious-corrective-to-the-leveling-of-the-public-sphere-part-2-andrew-ball/) ![Revolutionary Love – Kierkegaard’s Gift Economy As A Religious Corrective To The Leveling Of The Public Sphere, Part 1 (Andrew Ball)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/05/876px-s-ren_kierkegaard_1813-1855_-_9645353110.webp) ### [Revolutionary Love – Kierkegaard’s Gift Economy As A Religious Corrective To The Leveling Of The Public Sphere, Part 1 (Andrew Ball)](/religioustheory/posts/revolutionary-love-kierkegaards-gift-economy-as-a-religious-corrective-to-the-leveling-of-the-public-sphere-andrew-ball/) May 16, 2020 — By Andrew J. Ball Though Kierkegaard is typically considered to be the consummate philosopher of the single individual, his critique of secular modernity and institutional [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/revolutionary-love-kierkegaards-gift-economy-as-a-religious-corrective-to-the-leveling-of-the-public-sphere-andrew-ball/) ![Speaking Of God’s Presence As Non-Contrastive Transcendent Distinction (Joyce Konigsburg)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/08/964px-angel_of_the_divine_presence_bringing_eve_to_adam_the_creation_of_eve-__and_she_shall_be_called_woman_recto_sketch_for_the_same_verso_met_dp805381.webp) ### [Speaking Of God’s Presence As Non-Contrastive Transcendent Distinction (Joyce Konigsburg)](/religioustheory/posts/speaking-of-gods-presence-as-non-contrastive-transcendent-distinction-joyce-konigsburg/) July 28, 2019 — By Joyce Konigsburg To speak or not to speak of God is an important yet rather uncomfortable question that participants encounter during interreligious and interdisciplinary [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/speaking-of-gods-presence-as-non-contrastive-transcendent-distinction-joyce-konigsburg/) ![The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (Gavin Hyman)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/05/hegel_by_kugler_retouched.webp) ### [The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (Gavin Hyman)](/religioustheory/posts/the-new-hegel-and-the-question-of-god-part-1-gavin-hyman/) May 24, 2019 — By Gavin Hyman Among recent developments in continental philosophy and religious thought, one of the most prominent has been a ‘return to Hegel.’ It has been exemplified in [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-new-hegel-and-the-question-of-god-part-1-gavin-hyman/) ![The Critique Of Theism – Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Lecture 2 (Johannes Zachhuber)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/06/img_0310.webp) ### [The Critique Of Theism – Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Lecture 2 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/the-critique-of-theism-kant-hegel-feuerbach-nietzsche-lecture-2-johannes-zachhuber/) June 9, 2018 — By Johannes Zachhuber The following is the second lecture in an eight-lecture series. The first can be found here. I introduced these lectures last week by pointing out the unique [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-critique-of-theism-kant-hegel-feuerbach-nietzsche-lecture-2-johannes-zachhuber/) ![The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 2 (Brigid Burke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/genrich_ippolitovich_semiradsky_-_roma_1889.webp) ### [The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 2 (Brigid Burke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-mythology-of-afterlife-beliefs-and-their-impact-on-religious-conflict-part-2-brigid-burke/) November 7, 2017 — By Brigid Burke The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. Zoroastrianism is believed to be an outgrowth of an [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-mythology-of-afterlife-beliefs-and-their-impact-on-religious-conflict-part-2-brigid-burke/) ![Love Strong as Death – Jews against Heidegger, On the Issue of Finitude – Part 1 (Agata Bielik-Robson)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/07/no10-vangogh.webp) ### [Love Strong as Death – Jews against Heidegger, On the Issue of Finitude – Part 1 (Agata Bielik-Robson)](/religioustheory/posts/love-strong-as-death-jews-against-heidegger-on-the-issue-of-finitude-part-1-agata-bielik-robson/) July 25, 2016 — By Agata Bielik-Robson This article is published in two parts. The second portion will appear on August 1. > I have set before you life and death: choose life. – Deuteronomy 30:19 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/love-strong-as-death-jews-against-heidegger-on-the-issue-of-finitude-part-1-agata-bielik-robson/) ![Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology” – Part 1](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/04/hamlets-ghost.webp) ### [Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology” – Part 1](/religioustheory/posts/jesus-ghost-derrida-christianity-and-hauntology-part-1/) April 27, 2016 — By editors > Jesus, who was concerned till manhood with his own personal development, was free from the contagious sickness of his age and his people; free from the [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/jesus-ghost-derrida-christianity-and-hauntology-part-1/) [The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT)](https://jcrt.org) is an online, peer-reviewed, academic publication published by [The Whitestone Foundation](http://thewhitestonefoundation.org/), a 501c3 corporation located in Boulder, Colorado. 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