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Taylor’s typification of postmodernism as Flatland, however, as the quintessential View Article ### [What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/what-exactly-is-postmodernism-and-how-did-it-change-the-landscape-of-religious-studies-part-1-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke 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 Article ### [The Religious Roots of Environmental Justice – An Online Conference](/religioustheory/posts/the-religious-roots-of-environmental-justice-an-online-conference/) editors 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 Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 2 (Tink Tinker)](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-2-tink-tinker/) Tink Tinker 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 Article ### [A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 1 (Tink Tinker)](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-1-tink-tinker/) Tink Tinker 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 Article ### [From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 3 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/from-holistic-to-in-between-theology-the-ethiopian-evangelical-church-mekane-yesus-part-3-rode-molla/) Rode Molla The comparison between evangelical Christianity and EOC Christianity is their approach to the language. The Westerners use the mother tongue to translate View Article ### [From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/from-holistic-to-in-between-theology-the-ethiopian-evangelical-church-mekane-yesus-part-2-rode-molla/) Rode Molla 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 Article ### [From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 1 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/from-holistic-to-in-between-theology-the-ethiopian-evangelical-church-mekane-yesus/) Rode Molla The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus: Simultaneously Western and Indigenous Even though the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus has a Lutheran View Article ### [Critical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-10-tenderness-or-putting-neoliberalism-on-the-analysts-couch-announcement/) editors 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 Article ### [Critical Conversations 9 – Economic Theology And The Indebtedness Of Everyday Life (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-9-economic-theology-and-the-indebtedness-of-everyday-life-announcement/) editors 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 Article ### [Decoloniality And Disintegration Of Western Cognitive Empire – Rethinking Sovereignty And Territoriality In The 21st Century (Conference Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/decoloniality-and-disintegration-of-western-cognitive-empire-rethinking-sovereignty-and-territoriality-in-the-21st-century-international-conference/) editors Sponsored by The New Polis, Whitestone Publications, and Metropolitan State University of Denver in collaboration with members of the Iliff School of Theology View Article ### [Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 4 (Kelly Maeshiro)](/religioustheory/posts/modern-theology-and-the-dialectic-of-god-part-4-kelly-maeshiro/) Kelly Maeshiro 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 Article ### [Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)](/religioustheory/posts/modern-theology-and-the-dialectic-of-god-part-3-kelly-maeshiro/) 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 View Article ### [Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 1 (Kelly Maeshiro)](/religioustheory/posts/modern-theology-and-the-dialectic-of-god-part-1-kelly-maeshiro/) Kelly Maeshiro 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 Article ### [Critical Conversations – American Indian Worldview And The Twinned Cosmos Of Indigenous America (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-american-indian-worldview-and-the-twinned-cosmos-of-indigenous-america-announcement/) editors 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)](/religioustheory/posts/naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-part-2-james-e-willis-iii/) 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 View Article ### [“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/) 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 View Article ### [Lacan And Pneumatology (Mark Murphy)](/religioustheory/posts/lacan-and-pneumatology-mark-murphy/) Mark Murphy 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 Article ### [Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 1 (Gavin Hurley)](/religioustheory/posts/horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-gavin-hurley/) 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 View Article ### [The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (Gavin Hyman)](/religioustheory/posts/the-new-hegel-and-the-question-of-god-part-1-gavin-hyman/) 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 View Article ### [God And Salvation, Lecture 8 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-salvation-lecture-8-johannes-zachhuber/) 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 View Article ### [God As Person and Trinity, Lecture 7 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-as-person-and-trinity-lecture-7-johannes-zachhuber/) 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 View Article ### [God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-language-lecture-6-johannes-zachhuber/) 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 View Article ### [Review – Performance Apophatics (John Matthew Allison)](/religioustheory/posts/review-performance-apophatics-john-matthew-allison/) John Matthew Allison *Claire Maria Chambers. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Hardback Hardback. It highlights View Article ### [God and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-history-lecture-5-johannes-zachhuber/) Johannes Zachhuber 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 Article ### [Re-Envisioning Religious Studies As A Global Discipline – A Pre-AAR Symposium](/religioustheory/posts/re-envisioning-religious-studies-as-a-global-discipline-a-pre-aar-symposium/) editors 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 Article ### [God And Existence, Lecture 4 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-existence-lecture-4-johannes-zachhuber/) Johannes Zachhuber 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 Article ### [Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 3 (Mark Murphy)](/religioustheory/posts/lacan-as-spiritual-director-on-the-relationship-between-psychoanalysis-and-christian-mysticism-part-3-mark-murphy/) Mark Murphy 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 Article ### [Review – Medicinal Religion (Aaron Klink)](/religioustheory/posts/review-medicinal-religion-aaron-klink/) Aaron Klink *Balboni, Michael J. and Peteet, John R. eds. Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice ISBN 9780190272432 Hardcover. View Article ### [Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 1 (Mark Murphy)](/religioustheory/posts/lacan-as-spiritual-director-on-the-relationship-between-psychoanalysis-and-christian-mysticism-part-1-mark-murphy/) Mark Murphy 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 Article ### [Negative Theology And Its Problems: Barth And Marion, Lecture 3 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/negative-theology-and-its-problems-barth-and-marion-lecture-3-johannes-zachhuber/) Johannes Zachhuber 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 Article ### [The Critique Of Theism – Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Lecture 2 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/the-critique-of-theism-kant-hegel-feuerbach-nietzsche-lecture-2-johannes-zachhuber/) Johannes Zachhuber 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 Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Lutheran Theology and Postmodern Philosophy, Part II (Olli-Pekka Vaino)](/religioustheory/posts/lutheran-theology-and-postmodern-philosophy-part-ii-olli-pekka-vaino/) Olli-Pekka Vaino 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 Article ### [Lutheran Theology And Postmodern Philosophy, Part I (Olli-Pekka Vaino)](/religioustheory/posts/lutheran-theology-and-postmodern-philosophy-part-i-olli-pekka-vaino/) Olli-Pekka Vaino Recently, Martin Luther and the Lutheran Reformation has received heavy criticism in various theological and philosophical circles It highlights key arguments View Article ### [Admitting A Certain Fear of Zizek’s Theology – A Modest Plea For A Deleuzian Reading Of The Death Of God (Elijah Prewitt-Davis)](/religioustheory/posts/admitting-a-certain-fear-of-zizeks-theology-a-modest-plea-for-a-deleuzian-reading-of-the-death-of-god-elijah-prewitt-davis/) Elijah Prewitt-Davis 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 Article ### [Review – Reverent Irreverence (Amit Gvaryahu)](/religioustheory/posts/review-reverent-irreverence-amit-gvaryahu/) Amit Gvaryahu **Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism. Weiss, Dov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. ISBN 9780812293050 Hardcover, ebook. View Article ### [Prayer After the Death of God, Part II (Ashley [Gay] Graham)](/religioustheory/posts/prayer-after-the-death-of-god-part-ii-ashley-gay-graham/) Ashley Graham 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 Article ### [Prayer After The Death Of God, Part I (Ashley [Gay] Graham)](/religioustheory/posts/prayer-after-the-death-of-god-part-i-ashley-gay-graham/) Ashley Graham > 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 Article ### [Review – Reframing Schelling (Rolando Rodriguez)](/religioustheory/posts/review-reframing-schelling-rolando-rodriguez/) Rolando Rodriguez Daniel Whistler, **Schelling’s Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of Identity (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013), 261 ppgs + xi** View Article ### [Review—Whither Philosophy of Religion? (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-whither-philosophy-of-religion-benjamin-steele-fisher/) Benjamin Steele-Fisher **Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Zizek. Edited by Philip Goodchild and Hollis Phelps. New York: Routledge, 2017 It highlights View Article ### [Religious Studies and Comparative Theology – An Appraisal (Joshua Samuel)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-and-comparative-theology-an-appraisal-joshua-samuel/) Joshua Samuel 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 Article ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-3-raji-singh-soni/) Raji Singh Soni 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 Article ### [The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-1-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke This article appears in three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk Conference View Article ### [Review – Caputo’s “Spooky” Call To Theology (Rob Kennedy)](/religioustheory/posts/review-caputos-spooky-call-to-theology-rob-kennedy/) Rob Kennedy *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 Article ### [Forging A Path From Theory To Theology – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)](/religioustheory/posts/forging-a-path-from-theory-to-theology-review-essay-matt-waggoner/) Matt Waggoner *Blanton, Ward. Crockett, Clayton. Robbins, Jeffrey. Vahanian, Noëlle. An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Insurrections: View Article ### [Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/untimely-meditations-on-techno-theology-and-theo-poetics-part-2-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/) John Panteleimon Manoussakis **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 Article ### [Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/untimely-meditations-on-techno-theology-and-theo-poetics-part-1-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/) John Panteleimon Manoussakis 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 Article ### [Review – The Greatest Trick God Ever Pulled… (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-greatest-trick-god-ever-pulled-benjamin-steele-fisher/) Benjamin Steele-Fisher *Kotsko, Adam. The Prince of this World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 1503600203. Hardcover, paperback, e-book It highlights key View Article ### [Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 2 (Alan Jay Richard)](/religioustheory/posts/dreaming-innocence-in-america-paul-tillichs-radical-theology-of-liberation-part-2-alan-jay-richard/) Alan Jay Richard 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 Article ### [Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 1 (Alan Jay Richard)](/religioustheory/posts/dreaming-innocence-in-america-paul-tillichs-radical-theology-of-liberation-part-1-alan-jay-richard/) Alan Jay Richard 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 Article ### [Review – Caputo, The Unconditional, The Folly of God (Richard M. Allen)](/religioustheory/posts/review-caputo-the-unconditional-the-folly-of-god-richard-m-allen/) Richard M. Allen *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 Article ### [Review – Love’s Unfortunate Presence between Faith and Belief (Daniel Boscaljon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-loves-unfortunate-presence-between-faith-and-belief-daniel-boscaljon/) Daniel Boscaljon *Schrijvers, Joeri. Between Faith and Belief: Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life (SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought) It View Article ### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 3 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-3/) Roger K. Green 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 Article ### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-2/) Roger K. Green 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 Article ### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-1/) Roger K. Green 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 Article ### [Review – Carl Raschke’s Force of God Hammers Out A Political Theology Of Insurrection/Resurrection For Our Times](/religioustheory/posts/review-carl-raschkes-force-of-god-hammers-out-a-political-theology-of-insurrection-resurrection-for-our-times/) editors 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 Article ### [Plundering A Theory of Trauma – Confessions of A Novice Author on Lacan and Theology](/religioustheory/posts/plundering-a-theory-of-trauma-confessions-of-a-novice-author-on-lacan-and-theology/) editors 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 View Article ### [Multiplying Homonyms](/religioustheory/live/multiplying-homonyms/) Artur Sebastian Rosman Artur Sebastian Rosman uses homonymy to assess a JCRT debate between Clayton Crockett and Agata Bielik-Robson over theology and the postmodern sublime. View Article --- See [all tags](/tags). [The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT)](https://jcrt.org) is an online, peer-reviewed, academic publication published by [The Whitestone Foundation](http://thewhitestonefoundation.org/), a 501c3 corporation located in Boulder, Colorado. ISSN 1530-5228. 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