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Holdier)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/800px-faith_fides_from_the_virtues_met_dp818312.webp) ### [“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 2 (A.G. Holdier)](/religioustheory/posts/teach-me-to-do-whats-right-faith-hope-and-love-as-post-religious-virtues-part-2-a-g-holdier/) September 22, 2021 — By A. G. Holdier The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. In short, then, despite the absence of God in Bad Times, the characters all come [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/teach-me-to-do-whats-right-faith-hope-and-love-as-post-religious-virtues-part-2-a-g-holdier/) ![“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 1 (A.G. Holdier)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/the_theological_virtues-_faith_charity_hope_met_dt7354.webp) ### [“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 1 (A.G. Holdier)](/religioustheory/posts/teach-me-to-do-whats-right-faith-hope-and-love-as-post-religious-virtues-part-1-a-g-holdier/) September 8, 2021 — By A. G. Holdier > “God is the ‘beyond’ in the midst of our life.” > > – Dietrich Bonhoeffer > > “Are you lost, Father?” > > “Sorry?” > > “Are you lost?” > > “No It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/teach-me-to-do-whats-right-faith-hope-and-love-as-post-religious-virtues-part-1-a-g-holdier/) ![“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” And The Inhospitable State – Abrahamic Hospitality And The Limits Of Multiculturalism, Part 2 (Emily McAvan)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/04/deployment.webp) ### [“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” And The Inhospitable State – Abrahamic Hospitality And The Limits Of Multiculturalism, Part 2 (Emily McAvan)](/religioustheory/posts/the-reluctant-fundamentalist-and-the-inhospitable-state-abrahamic-hospitality-and-the-limits-of-multiculturalism-part-2-emily-mcavan/) April 8, 2020 — By EMILY McAVAN The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Yet even in the first bloom of his success in New York, it is clear that [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-reluctant-fundamentalist-and-the-inhospitable-state-abrahamic-hospitality-and-the-limits-of-multiculturalism-part-2-emily-mcavan/) ![“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” And The Inhospitable State – Abrahamic Hospitality And The Limits Of Multiculturalism, Part 1 (Emily McAvan)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/04/eisa_shikawi.webp) ### [“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” And The Inhospitable State – Abrahamic Hospitality And The Limits Of Multiculturalism, Part 1 (Emily McAvan)](/religioustheory/posts/the-reluctant-fundamentalist-and-the-inhospitable-state-abrahamic-hospitality-and-the-limits-of-multiculturalism-emily-mcavan/) April 1, 2020 — By EMILY McAVAN > “Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” (Romans 12:13 NIV) > > “he who believes in Allah and the Last Day should show hospitality to [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-reluctant-fundamentalist-and-the-inhospitable-state-abrahamic-hospitality-and-the-limits-of-multiculturalism-emily-mcavan/) ![The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 3 (Paul Maltby)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/03/apocalypse-albert_goodwin.webp) ### [The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 3 (Paul Maltby)](/religioustheory/posts/the-hollow-christians-of-end-times-fiction-part-3-paul-maltby/) March 3, 2020 — By Paul Maltby The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. End Times fiction must be distinguished from other literary [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-hollow-christians-of-end-times-fiction-part-3-paul-maltby/) ![The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 2 (Paul Maltby)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/03/1280px-last_judgement_michelangelo.webp) ### [The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 2 (Paul Maltby)](/religioustheory/posts/the-hollow-christians-of-end-times-fiction-part-2-paul-maltby/) February 25, 2020 — By Paul Maltby The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. End Times fiction’s unrelenting focus on human sinfulness and unworthiness, a [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-hollow-christians-of-end-times-fiction-part-2-paul-maltby/) ![The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 1 (Paul Maltby)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/02/doctor_who_experience_3998731216.webp) ### [The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 1 (Paul Maltby)](/religioustheory/posts/the-hollow-christians-of-end-times-fiction-part-1-paul-maltby/) February 18, 2020 — By Paul Maltby A flaw at the heart of End Times fiction gravely weakens its credibility as Christian literature. Its stock characters lack the degree of interiority required [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-hollow-christians-of-end-times-fiction-part-1-paul-maltby/) ![Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/08/style-img_7932-kanagawa-0-4mp.webp) ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-3-raji-singh-soni/) August 13, 2017 — By Raji Singh Soni The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second one here. As Julia Reinhard Lupton argues It [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-3-raji-singh-soni/) ![Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/08/the_sea.webp) ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-2-raji-singh-soni/) August 4, 2017 — By 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-2-raji-singh-soni/) ![Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 1 (Raji Singh Soni)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/07/pda44.webp) ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 1 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-religious-and-aesthetic-states-in-w-h-audens-for-the-time-being-part-1-raji-singh-soni/) July 28, 2017 — By Raji Singh Soni The following is part one of an article that will be published in three successive installments. > TRINCULO Servant-monster! The folly of this island! 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