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Raubach)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/11/800px-wandbild_portrait_george_floyd_von_eme_street_art_im_mauerpark_berlin.webp) ### [The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 1 (Michael C. Raubach)](/religioustheory/posts/the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-michael-c-raubach/) November 4, 2021 — By Michael C. Raubach In her 1992 masterpiece, The Broken Middle, the philosopher Gillian Rose explored what she saw as a baleful crisis of ethics in modern political discourse [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-michael-c-raubach/) ![“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 2 (James E. Willis, III)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/05/img_4260.webp) ### [“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 2 (James E. Willis, III)](/religioustheory/posts/naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-part-2-james-e-willis-iii/) May 9, 2020 — By James E. Willis III The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. A philosophy of finite human time is one way to read Martin Hägglund’s recent [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-part-2-james-e-willis-iii/) ![“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 1 (James E. Willis, III)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/05/img_4279.webp) ### [“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 1 (James E. Willis, III)](/religioustheory/posts/naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-james-e-willis-iii/) May 1, 2020 — By James E. Willis III The Death of God theological movement of the mid-twentieth century serves as a productive starting place to consider spiritual violence in our time, or the [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-james-e-willis-iii/) ![Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 2 (Gavin Hurley)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/01/buchcover-1572453224d0o.webp) ### [Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 2 (Gavin Hurley)](/religioustheory/posts/horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley/) January 5, 2020 — By 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley/) ![Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 2 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/images.webp) ### [Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 2 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](/religioustheory/posts/framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-2-vivek-swaroop-sharma/) September 22, 2017 — By Vivek Swaroop Sharma The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. There are two important qualifications to the following [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-2-vivek-swaroop-sharma/) ![Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 1 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/09/7e40f143e74c385ee290c7e279d9897f.webp) ### [Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 1 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](/religioustheory/posts/framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-1-vivek-swaroop-sharma/) September 12, 2017 — By Vivek Swaroop Sharma Killing hundreds of people in the name of “cow protection” would, at first glance, appear to be a headline drawn from a Monty Python skit It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-1-vivek-swaroop-sharma/) ![Originary Grammar, Part 3](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Originary Grammar, Part 3](/religioustheory/live/originary-grammar-part-3/) August 1, 2009 — By Adam Katz Adam Katz extends originary grammar through Eric Gans, metaphysics, imperatives, global law, and the need for signs capable of deferring political violence. 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