The following is the last of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. Concluding Clarifications Understandable fears to the contrary notwithstanding, a cult, by definition, is centered around the figure of a single charismatic leader, whereas the whole point of Spirit/Dance is to empower a maximal number of people to autonomously create […]
Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. As to the purpose of this spirit dancing, Kopenawa constantly emphasizes that it is a form of linguistic communication. “It is these spirits’ words that I make heard,” he writes. “It is not just my own thought” (314). More precisely, […]
Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 1 (Joshua Hall)
The following is the first of a three-part series. This project was provoked by the almost nonexistent pushback from the Democratic liberal establishment to the (2020) exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse, despite his acknowledged killing of two Black Lives Matters protesters against the police murder of George Floyd. It builds on three prior articles arguing for […]
Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, And The Quotidian Academic Terror Of “Christian Nationalism”
The following essay appeared recently in The New Polis. It is republished here because of its timeliness and importance. What exactly is Christian nationalism? Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year, a tight little clique of prominent academics and journalists have been on a campaign to convince Americans that […]
Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 3 (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. Hyman to which the author replies can be found here. In Hegel Contra Sociology Rose argued that the negation of critical consciousness was preserved not just as the interminable repetition of antinomy, but as […]
Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 2 (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 here. But what is always at stake in these arguments, writes Hyman, is the question of the contamination of the Absolute or God. Can we still speak […]
Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 1 (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. Gavin Hyman’s ‘The ‘New Hegel’ and the Question of God,’ in the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory [1] raises the age old and yet still timely question about the knowability […]
Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)
The following is the third of a three part-series. The first can be found here, the second here. Planning and Religious Thought Where planning fails, despair grows. Only where despair grows, hope can rise. Where hope rises, thought reconnects with (the philosophical equivalent of) Love, thanks to a “certain” – ambiguity intended – faith and trust. […]
Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 2 (Erik Meganck)
The following is the second of a three part-series. The first can be found here. Love is not the opposite of planning; openness is not the opposite of enclosedness. Openness is not the new metaphysical principle that deals out signification among all beings. It does not replace God or Geist or Will or any other […]
Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)
The following is the first of a three-part series. Philo-sophy literally means “love of wisdom.”[1] But this can be read in more than one way. There is the well-known objective genitive, proposing that philosophers are thinkers who love wisdom without claiming to own it. But there is also a subjective genitive that shows how love […]