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The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 2 (Mick Pope)

May 24, 2024 — By editors

The article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. It is generally recognised that the Garden story is more environmentally friendly

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Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 2 (Magdalena Sedmak)

June 30, 2023 — By editors

The following is the second of a two part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and

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Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 1 (Magdalena Sedmak)

June 15, 2023 — By editors

The following is the first of a two part series. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights

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Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)

September 7, 2022 — By editors

> “Neptunus alii per alia, poterunt intellegi qui qualesque sint, quoque eos nomine consuetudo nuncupaverit, hoc eos et venerari et colere debemus.” – Cicero

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Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 2 (Jake Sirota)

February 15, 2022 — By editors

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. At this point Derrida’s appraisal of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics

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Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 1 (Jake Sirota)

February 7, 2022 — By editors

Jacques Derrida’s prolonged and intimate proximity to the thought of Martin Heidegger has played a significant role in the understanding and debate of Derrida’s

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Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)

February 22, 2021 — By editors

The following is the third of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Philosophically speaking, Hegel’s Absolute idealism represented

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Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 2 (Kelly Maeshiro)

February 8, 2021 — By editors

The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. Kantian idealism for Hegel represents the “shape” of Spirit corresponding to

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Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 3 (Melissa Conroy)

October 12, 2020 — By editors

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Likewise, Teresa de Lauretis argues that gender is best

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Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 2 (Melissa Conroy)

October 6, 2020 — By editors

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The current medical paradigm works to suppress and erase these bodies by

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Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)

September 28, 2020 — By editors

In June 2019 the Congregation for Catholic Education released a document entitled “Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question

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Lacan And Pneumatology (Mark Murphy)

March 22, 2020 — By editors

There has been much work on Lacan in describing his relationship to a Christological theology. We see this in work such as Žižek’s The Fragile Absolute and also

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God And Salvation, Lecture 8 (Johannes Zachhuber)

April 17, 2019 — By editors

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

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Religion And Mental Health – The Therapuetic Value Of The Teachings of Jesus, Part 2 (Thomas Roberts and Delbert Hayden)

October 9, 2018 — By editors

The following is the second part in a two-part installment. You can find the first part here. Maintaining a State of Hope and Taking a Transcendent Perspective

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Religion And Mental Health – The Therapeutic Value Of The Teachings Of Jesus , Part 1 (Thomas Roberts And Delbert Hayden)

September 30, 2018 — By editors

The following is the first part in a two-part installment. The second part can be found here. Author Note: The authors of this article take the position that

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Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 3 (Mark Murphy)

August 15, 2018 — By editors

The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The second one can be found here The second one can be found here.

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Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 2 (Mark Murphy)

August 8, 2018 — By editors

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. What Does Lacan Mean When He Says That Spiritual Direction is a

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Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 1 (Mark Murphy)

July 31, 2018 — By editors

Spiritual direction is defined as the help one gives to another in developing one’s relationship with the sacred, while the treatment of psychological symptoms

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The Critique Of Theism – Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Lecture 2 (Johannes Zachhuber)

June 9, 2018 — By editors

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

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The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 2 (Brigid Burke)

November 7, 2017 — By editors

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

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The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 1 (Brigid Burke)

November 1, 2017 — By editors

The question of whether there is life after death, and what that life might be like, is probably one of religion’s oldest questions It highlights key arguments

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Newest Titles For Review – Freud, Nussbaum, Angst, The Crucified God, Etc.

January 27, 2017 — By editors

Religious Theory has just added new titles for which we are looking for reviewers (listed below). If you would like to review one of them, please send an email

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Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 3 (Alan Jay Richard)

November 29, 2016 — By editors

The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. The second part can be found here It highlights

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Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 1 (Alan Jay Richard)

November 7, 2016 — By editors

One of the challenges of liberation theology is to think the radical political and social liberation of the oppressed in a way that is truly this-worldly

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Shamanism and Entheogens – Toward A Psychoanalysis Of The New “Dream Time” (Roger Green)

October 24, 2016 — By editors

There is no reason why therapy rooms for psychedelic sessions must be adorned with the default Buddha icons, fractal posters, and Indian drapes It highlights

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