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Bakker)](/religioustheory/posts/locating-the-oceanic-in-sylvia-wynters-demonic-ground-part-2-justine-m-bakker/) January 17, 2022 — By Justine M. Bakker Part 2 advances the oceanic reading of Wynter by detailing method and stakes, relating demonic ground to coloniality, black study, and experimental theoretical [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/locating-the-oceanic-in-sylvia-wynters-demonic-ground-part-2-justine-m-bakker/) ![Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 3 (John Cuda)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/10/screen-shot-2021-10-21-at-9-57-51-pm.webp) ### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 3 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-3-john-cuda/) October 21, 2021 — By John Cuda Part 3 links entheogen practice and dreamwork, arguing that altered states function as a training ground for agency, myth-making, and transformed lived reality. [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-3-john-cuda/) ![Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/10/pair_of_mandarin_ducks.webp) ### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-1-melissa-conroy/) September 28, 2020 — By Melissa Conroy 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-1-melissa-conroy/) ![The Ultimate And The Penultimate – Bonhoeffer’s Twofold Contextualism In Adjudicating Competing Ethical Claims, Part 1 (W. Travis McMaken)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/08/dietrich_bonhoeffer_und_wilhelm_rott_um_1938.webp) ### [The Ultimate And The Penultimate – Bonhoeffer’s Twofold Contextualism In Adjudicating Competing Ethical Claims, Part 1 (W. Travis McMaken)](/religioustheory/posts/the-ultimate-and-the-penultimate-bonhoeffers-twofold-contextualism-in-adjudicating-competing-ethical-claims-part-1-w-travis-mcmaken/) August 17, 2020 — By W. Travis Mcmaken The following is the first of a two-part series. The life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer quickly captured the imagination of theologians, clergy, and lay [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-ultimate-and-the-penultimate-bonhoeffers-twofold-contextualism-in-adjudicating-competing-ethical-claims-part-1-w-travis-mcmaken/) ![The Curious Whiteheadian Proclivity In Scheler’s Account Of God And Persons, Part 2 (J. Edward Hackett)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/04/download.webp) ### [The Curious Whiteheadian Proclivity In Scheler’s Account Of God And Persons, Part 2 (J. Edward Hackett)](/religioustheory/posts/the-curious-whiteheadian-proclivity-in-schelers-account-of-god-and-persons-part-2-j-edward-hackett/) April 23, 2020 — By J. Edward Hackett The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Before talking about Scheler’s conception of the person It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-curious-whiteheadian-proclivity-in-schelers-account-of-god-and-persons-part-2-j-edward-hackett/) ![From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 2 (Jakob Deibl)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/05/1920px-la_campina_romana1639_claude_lorrain.webp) ### [From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 2 (Jakob Deibl)](/religioustheory/posts/from-kant-to-holderlin-poetry-and-religion-in-the-wake-of-philosophical-aesthetics-part-3-jakob-deibl/) May 7, 2019 — By 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. [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/from-kant-to-holderlin-poetry-and-religion-in-the-wake-of-philosophical-aesthetics-part-3-jakob-deibl/) ![God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/04/ludwig-wittgenstein.webp) ### [God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-language-lecture-6-johannes-zachhuber/) April 2, 2019 — By 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-language-lecture-6-johannes-zachhuber/) ![Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 2 (Philipp Valentini)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/09/img_2675.webp) ### [Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 2 (Philipp Valentini)](/religioustheory/posts/transmodern-sufism-or-stepping-with-levinas-on-the-footprints-of-a-speculative-sufism-not-re-framed-by-20th-century-orientalists-part-2-philipp-valentini/) September 15, 2018 — By Philipp Valentini The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. A non-Paulinian theology understands the Law not as a whole but as [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/transmodern-sufism-or-stepping-with-levinas-on-the-footprints-of-a-speculative-sufism-not-re-framed-by-20th-century-orientalists-part-2-philipp-valentini/) ![Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 3 (Alan Jay Richard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/william_blake_-_the_shepherd_from_songs_of_innocence_-_google_art_project.webp) ### [Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 3 (Alan Jay Richard)](/religioustheory/posts/dreaming-innocence-in-america-paul-tillichs-radical-theology-of-liberation-part-3-alan-jay-richard/) November 29, 2016 — By Alan Jay Richard The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. 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