Religious Theory Posts

To Not Lose Sight Of The Good – Notes On The Zapatismo Ethic, Part 1 (Matt Rosen)

On the first of January 1994, as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army

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Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 2 (Gavin Hurley)

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science

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Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 1 (Gavin Hurley)

Catholic horror—horror fiction that integrates Catholic perspectives into the fiction itself—is often be seen by Catholics to be incompatible with the mission

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Review – Genealogies Of Mahayana Buddhism (Ananda Abeysekara)

Joseph Walser, Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism: Emptiness, Power, and the Question of Origin. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2018. 288 pages. IBSN:...

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From The Gift Of Mortality To The Name Of God (Jakob Helmut Deibl)

The following is a continuation of a series of articles corresponding to chapters of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus

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The Irreducible (Jean-Luc Marion)

Of that which we cannot speak, must we remain silent? Probably—especially if we understand why we cannot say anything about it, and have good reason for not

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Speaking Of God’s Presence As Non-Contrastive Transcendent Distinction (Joyce Konigsburg)

July 28, 2019 — By editors

To speak or not to speak of God is an important yet rather uncomfortable question that participants encounter during interreligious and interdisciplinary

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Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 2 (Roger Green)

The following is the second of a two-part series. The initial installment can be found here. Although we must constantly remember that the fetish is the product

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Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 1 (Roger Green)

The following is the first of a two-part series. The second installment can be found here. The concept of fetishism has a special place within the long history

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Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness – Reflections From A Jew, Part 2 (Sarah Pessin)

Emphasized in a temporalized modality, and bringing together elements of our phenomenological and political reflections above, we may specifically unpack the

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Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness – Reflections From A Jew, Part 1 (Sarah Pessin)

June 22, 2019 — By editors

The following is the first of a two-part installment. This article can also be downloaded in PDF format from the Spring 2019 issue (Vol. 18, No 18, No.

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The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 3 (Gavin Hyman)

The following is the last installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. The second one can be found here. As Thomas A As Thomas A.

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The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 2 (Gavin Hyman)

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Slavoj Žižek’s return to God in the context of his wider return

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The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (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

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From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 3 (Jakob Deibl)

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second one here. Translated by Philipp Schlögl It

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From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 2 (Jakob Deibl)

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Translated by Philipp Schlögl Translated by Philipp Schlögl.

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Call For Papers – Special Issue On Walter Benjamin And Religion

What does Walter Benjamin’s work suggest about religion and the methods of studying it? This special issue of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Studies

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From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 1 (Jakob Deibl)

The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Translated by Philipp Schlögl. Friederich Hölderlin’s famous quote “Thus all Religion would be

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Jonathan Edwards And The Vegan Elect – An Unconventional Calvinist Reading, Part 1 (Tadd Ruetenik)

In 1895, when Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity School of Christianity, first became a vegetarian, she said that “the appetite left me without my even

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God And Salvation, Lecture 8 (Johannes Zachhuber)

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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God As Person and Trinity, Lecture 7 (Johannes Zachhuber)

The following is the seventh lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The possibility that God is person has often been

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God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)

The following is the sixth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. I started the last couple of lectures with elaborate

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“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 3 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)

March 26, 2019 — By editors

The following is the final of a three-part series. The first installation can be found here, the second here. The article in full originally appeared in The New

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“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 2 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)

March 21, 2019 — By editors

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installation can be found here. The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in

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