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[Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/9781481324250/) ![What Black Disabled Bodies Can Teach Us About Environmental Justice (Robert Monson)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/07/disabled_bipoc_in_front_of_pride_flag.webp) ### [What Black Disabled Bodies Can Teach Us About Environmental Justice (Robert Monson)](/religioustheory/posts/what-black-disabled-bodies-can-teach-us-about-environmental-justice-robert-monson/) July 10, 2024 — By Robert Monson As early as 2014, governmental officials in the city of Flint, Michigan made a series of decisions that would prove to have deleterious effects on the people [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/what-black-disabled-bodies-can-teach-us-about-environmental-justice-robert-monson/) ![Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/12/1600px-platos_symposium_met_dp888791.webp) ### [Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-1-erik-meganck/) November 29, 2022 — By Erik Meganck Philo-sophy literally means “love of wisdom.” But this can be read in more than one way. There is the well-known objective genitive, proposing that philosophers [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-1-erik-meganck/) ![Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/03/img_7446-1.webp) ### [Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)](/religioustheory/posts/modern-theology-and-the-dialectic-of-god-part-3-kelly-maeshiro/) February 22, 2021 — By Kelly Maeshiro 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/modern-theology-and-the-dialectic-of-god-part-3-kelly-maeshiro/) ![Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness – Reflections From A Jew, Part 2 (Sarah Pessin)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/07/1599px-jewish_star_star_of_david_6002048043.webp) ### [Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness – Reflections From A Jew, Part 2 (Sarah Pessin)](/religioustheory/posts/kenosis-emancipation-pastness-reflections-from-a-jew-part-2-sarah-pessin/) July 1, 2019 — By Sarah Pessin Emphasized in a temporalized modality, and bringing together elements of our phenomenological and political reflections above, we may specifically unpack the [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/kenosis-emancipation-pastness-reflections-from-a-jew-part-2-sarah-pessin/) ![Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness – Reflections From A Jew, Part 1 (Sarah Pessin)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/06/jewish-woman-free-image.webp) ### [Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness – Reflections From A Jew, Part 1 (Sarah Pessin)](/religioustheory/posts/kenosis-emancipation-pastness-reflections-from-a-jew-part-1-sarah-pessin/) June 22, 2019 — By Sarah Pessin 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. [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/kenosis-emancipation-pastness-reflections-from-a-jew-part-1-sarah-pessin/) ![Thinking About God In A Pluralistic World – The Challenge of Modern Theology, Lecture 1 (Johannes Zachhuber)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/05/christian-mosaic.webp) ### [Thinking About God In A Pluralistic World – The Challenge of Modern Theology, Lecture 1 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/thinking-about-god-in-a-pluralistic-world-the-challenge-of-modern-theology-lecture-1-johannes-zuchaber/) May 12, 2018 — By Johannes Zachhuber The following is the first lecture in an eight lecture series. A couple of days ago, I read a column in a national newspaper whose title had a strange [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/thinking-about-god-in-a-pluralistic-world-the-challenge-of-modern-theology-lecture-1-johannes-zuchaber/) ![Review – Indebted to Asceticism (Hollis Phelps)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/11/elettra-stimilli.webp) ### [Review – Indebted to Asceticism (Hollis Phelps)](/religioustheory/posts/review-indebted-to-asceticism-hollis-phelps/) November 14, 2017 — By Hollis Phelps Stimilli, Elettra. **The Debt of the Living: Ascesis and Capitalism. Translated by Arianna Bove. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017. 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Hardcover, paperback, e-book It highlights key [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-greatest-trick-god-ever-pulled-benjamin-steele-fisher/) ![Theodicy of Money – The Scene and Subject of Forgiveness (Timothy Snediker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/05/mammon_and_his_slave.webp) ### [Theodicy of Money – The Scene and Subject of Forgiveness (Timothy Snediker)](/religioustheory/posts/theodicy-of-money-the-scene-and-subject-of-forgiveness/) May 18, 2016 — By Timothy Snediker Today the question of debt forgiveness has become an eminently practical, not to mention political, question. From sovereign debt crises in Greece, Spain [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/theodicy-of-money-the-scene-and-subject-of-forgiveness/) ![Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology”, Part 2](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/05/california-ghost-town.webp) ### [Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology”, Part 2](/religioustheory/posts/jesus-ghost-derrida-christianity-and-hauntology-part-2/) May 6, 2016 — By editors The following is Part 2 of a 3-part series by Victor Taylor on how one might reflect theologically on Jesus and the Christian message from a Derridean [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/jesus-ghost-derrida-christianity-and-hauntology-part-2/) ![Dis-Enclosure and the Inaugural Moment](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Dis-Enclosure and the Inaugural Moment](/religioustheory/live/dis-enclosure-and-the-inaugural-moment/) January 22, 2009 — By Carl A. Raschke Carl A. 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