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What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)
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This article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Taylor’s typification of postmodernism as Flatland, however, as the quintessential
View ArticleWhat Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)
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Almost a half century ago a change took place in the humanities, and by extension in the fledgling field of religious studies It highlights key arguments
View ArticleThe Religious Roots of Environmental Justice – An Online Conference
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Catherine Keller practices theology as a relation between ancient hints of ultimacy and current matters of urgency. As the George T As the George T. It
View ArticlePhilosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)
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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
View ArticleA Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 2 (Tink Tinker)
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The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal
View ArticleA Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 1 (Tink Tinker)
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The following is the first of a three-part series. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal It highlights key arguments
View ArticleFrom Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 3 (Rode Molla)
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The comparison between evangelical Christianity and EOC Christianity is their approach to the language. The Westerners use the mother tongue to translate
View ArticleFrom Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 2 (Rode Molla)
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The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Tumsa, as a theologian, focused on social justice and the hermeneutical
View ArticleFrom Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 1 (Rode Molla)
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The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus: Simultaneously Western and Indigenous Even though the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus has a Lutheran
View ArticleCritical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)
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When: Tuesday, June 29, 10am Mountain Standard Time How: Zoom. By Advance Registration. Please register at the following link below It highlights key arguments
View ArticleCritical Conversations 9 – Economic Theology And The Indebtedness Of Everyday Life (Announcement)
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Participants are invited to join us live in the ninth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the
View ArticleDecoloniality And Disintegration Of Western Cognitive Empire – Rethinking Sovereignty And Territoriality In The 21st Century (Conference Announcement)
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Sponsored by The New Polis, Whitestone Publications, and Metropolitan State University of Denver in collaboration with members of the Iliff School of Theology
View ArticleModern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 4 (Kelly Maeshiro)
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The following is the last of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. Barth’s theology is in many ways contiguous with
View ArticleModern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)
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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
View ArticleModern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 1 (Kelly Maeshiro)
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In the Christian tradition, the question of whether philosophy is necessary for theology, or even relevant to it, is a question almost as old as theology
View ArticleCritical Conversations – American Indian Worldview And The Twinned Cosmos Of Indigenous America (Announcement)
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Participants are invited to join us live in the fifth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the
View Article“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 2 (James E. Willis, III)
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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
View Article“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 1 (James E. Willis, III)
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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
View ArticleLacan And Pneumatology (Mark Murphy)
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There has been much work on Lacan in describing his relationship to a Christological theology. We see this in work such as Žižek’s The Fragile Absolute and also
View ArticleHorror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 1 (Gavin Hurley)
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Catholic horror—horror fiction that integrates Catholic perspectives into the fiction itself—is often be seen by Catholics to be incompatible with the mission
View ArticleThe “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (Gavin Hyman)
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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
View ArticleGod And Salvation, Lecture 8 (Johannes Zachhuber)
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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
View ArticleGod As Person and Trinity, Lecture 7 (Johannes Zachhuber)
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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
View ArticleGod And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)
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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
View ArticleReview – Performance Apophatics (John Matthew Allison)
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*Claire Maria Chambers. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Hardback Hardback. It highlights
View ArticleGod and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)
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The following is the fifth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The existentialist approach you heard about last week
View ArticleRe-Envisioning Religious Studies As A Global Discipline – A Pre-AAR Symposium
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The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver in conjunction with its partner faculty
View ArticleGod And Existence, Lecture 4 (Johannes Zachhuber)
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The following is the fourth lecture in an eight-part lecture series. Readers can also refer to lectures one, two, and three It highlights key arguments
View ArticleLacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 3 (Mark Murphy)
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The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The second one can be found here The second one can be found here.
View ArticleReview – Medicinal Religion (Aaron Klink)
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*Balboni, Michael J. and Peteet, John R. eds. Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice ISBN 9780190272432 Hardcover.
View ArticleLacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 1 (Mark Murphy)
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Spiritual direction is defined as the help one gives to another in developing one’s relationship with the sacred, while the treatment of psychological symptoms
View ArticleNegative Theology And Its Problems: Barth And Marion, Lecture 3 (Johannes Zachhuber)
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The following is the third lecture in an eight-lecture series. I have described in last week’s lecture how, during the 19th century, some serious challenges
View ArticleThe Critique Of Theism – Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Lecture 2 (Johannes Zachhuber)
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The following is the second lecture in an eight-lecture series. The first can be found here. I introduced these lectures last week by pointing out the unique
View ArticleThinking About God In A Pluralistic World – The Challenge of Modern Theology, Lecture 1 (Johannes Zachhuber)
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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
View ArticleLutheran Theology and Postmodern Philosophy, Part II (Olli-Pekka Vaino)
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The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. Postmodern thinking is generally suspicious against It highlights
View ArticleLutheran Theology And Postmodern Philosophy, Part I (Olli-Pekka Vaino)
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Recently, Martin Luther and the Lutheran Reformation has received heavy criticism in various theological and philosophical circles It highlights key arguments
View ArticleAdmitting A Certain Fear of Zizek’s Theology – A Modest Plea For A Deleuzian Reading Of The Death Of God (Elijah Prewitt-Davis)
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I am told by Zizek—as well as Hegelian friends—that any attempt to argue or disagree with Hegel fits nicely within his dialectical scheme It highlights
View ArticleReview – Reverent Irreverence (Amit Gvaryahu)
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**Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism. Weiss, Dov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. ISBN 9780812293050 Hardcover, ebook.
View ArticlePrayer After the Death of God, Part II (Ashley [Gay] Graham)
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The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. This abandonment is not a permanent void; rather, it demonstrates
View ArticlePrayer After The Death Of God, Part I (Ashley [Gay] Graham)
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> Metaphysics is onto-theo-logy. Someone who has experienced theology in his own roots, both the theology of the Christian faith and that of philosophy, would
View ArticleReview – Reframing Schelling (Rolando Rodriguez)
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Daniel Whistler, **Schelling’s Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of Identity (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013), 261 ppgs + xi**
View ArticleReview—Whither Philosophy of Religion? (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)
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**Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Zizek. Edited by Philip Goodchild and Hollis Phelps. New York: Routledge, 2017 It highlights
View ArticleReligious Studies and Comparative Theology – An Appraisal (Joshua Samuel)
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The title “religious scholar,” it must be remembered, is a very ambiguous categorization. It could either mean those who are engaged in academic work in the
View ArticleTraversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)
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The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second one here. As Julia Reinhard Lupton argues It
View ArticleThe Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)
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This article appears in three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk Conference
View ArticleReview – Caputo’s “Spooky” Call To Theology (Rob Kennedy)
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*Caputo, John D., Moody, Sarah, and DeLay, Tad., It Spooks: Living In Response To An Unheard Call. Rapid City SD: Shelter50 Publishing Collective, 2015
View ArticleForging A Path From Theory To Theology – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)
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*Blanton, Ward. Crockett, Clayton. Robbins, Jeffrey. Vahanian, Noëlle. An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Insurrections:
View ArticleUntimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)
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**The following is the second half of the article. The first installment can be found here.** Richard Kearney’s theopoetics offers an alternative to the
View ArticleUntimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)
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The following is the first half of the article. The second installment can be found here. Philosophy’s very first utterance, according to Aristotle, present us
View ArticleReview – The Greatest Trick God Ever Pulled… (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)
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*Kotsko, Adam. The Prince of this World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 1503600203. Hardcover, paperback, e-book It highlights key
View ArticleDreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 2 (Alan Jay Richard)
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The following is the second installment of a multi-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. As Tillich argues in the second dissertation, Kant
View ArticleDreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 1 (Alan Jay Richard)
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One of the challenges of liberation theology is to think the radical political and social liberation of the oppressed in a way that is truly this-worldly
View ArticleReview – Caputo, The Unconditional, The Folly of God (Richard M. Allen)
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*Caputo, John D. The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional. Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 1598151711. Paperback, e-book Paperback, e-book.
View ArticleReview – Love’s Unfortunate Presence between Faith and Belief (Daniel Boscaljon)
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*Schrijvers, Joeri. Between Faith and Belief: Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life (SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought) It
View ArticleForce in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 3 (Roger Green)
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The following is the last of a three-part series. The first part was published on May 31, 2016. The second part was published on June 17 It highlights
View ArticleForce in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 2 (Roger Green)
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The following is the second of a three-part series. The first part was published on May 31, 2016. It is especially significant that Heidegger’s attention to the
View ArticleForce in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 1 (Roger Green)
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The term “political theology” is currently used in a variety of ways in current debate over the place of liberalism amid world crises in politics and It
View ArticleReview – Carl Raschke’s Force of God Hammers Out A Political Theology Of Insurrection/Resurrection For Our Times
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Raschke, Carl. Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN-978-0231-17384-1 It
View ArticlePlundering A Theory of Trauma – Confessions of A Novice Author on Lacan and Theology
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Nietzsche’s advice to young authors was to never admit error, for our critics will neither give an inch nor forgive our humility in siding against ourselves
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