Reclaiming Metaphysics and Truth: How D. Stephen Long Speaks of God
D. Stephen Long's most recent book, SPEAKING OF GOD, probes the importance of metaphysics for theology, ecclesiology, and politics.
View ArticleYoung Life and the Gospel of All-Along Belonging
In this essay, Jeff McSwain describes the theological issues involved in his controversial departure from Young Life in 2007.
View ArticleThis Is the Way the World Ends: A Conversation between Kara N. Slade and Amy...
Dystopian novels—stories of the future going badly wrong—have apparently now surpassed the vampire and fantasy genres in the young adult fiction market. The books, and the phenomenon of their...
View ArticleThe Banal Road to Perdition: Cliché, Political Failure, and What the Tea...
In this essay, David Kline and Dan Rhodes discuss how Christianity can learn from the Tea Party, while at the same time showing how the language of cliché not only distracts us from the real political...
View ArticleRace, Theology, and the Politics of Abjection: An Interview with J. Kameron...
In Part I of this two-part interview, J. Kameron Carter discusses his current work regarding political theology and the construction of the modern racialized world.
View ArticleRace, Theology, and the Politics of Abjection: An Interview with J. Kameron...
In this two-part interview, J. Kameron Carter discusses his current work regarding political theology and the construction of the modern racialized world; speaks about the Obama presidency, the...
View ArticleBearing the Silence: On James Baldwin and Prayer
Through an examination of the role of silence in James Baldwin’s novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, this paper explores how prayer can open up life within and beyond a racist, oppressive social order.
View ArticleAlways Historicize! On Fredric Jameson, the Tea Party, and Theological...
Theodor Adorno, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Žižek: What do these thinkers have in common? First, they are all Marxists.1 Second, they have...
View ArticleOn the “Monstrosity Of Christ”: Karl Barth in Conversation with Slavoj Žižek...
The introduction of Karl Barth into the Zizek/Milbank debate serves as the radicalization of the christological account of the monstrosity of Christ, properly accounting for the doctrinal and...
View ArticleSaving von Balthasar’s Conversation with Barth: A Review of Saving Karl Barth
Catholics and Protestants have been at odds for nearly five centuries. From the ninety-five criticisms on a Wittenberg door to the Thirty Years’ War to the bloody politics of the English Reformation...
View ArticleWill Love Cast Out Fear? The Syrian Refugees and Christian America
On the Monday after the Paris attacks, Oliver Willis (@owillis) of Media Matters for America tweeted, “if only we had a seasonally appropriate story about middle eastern people seeking refuge being...
View ArticleYou Always Begin an Essay (or a Theology) in the Middle: A Review of Stanley...
Stanley Hauerwas, The Work of Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2015). There are moments during worship, especially during the consecration of the Eucharist or as the congregation...
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This Is the Way the World Ends: A Conversation between Kara N. Slade and Amy...
Dystopian novels—stories of the future going badly wrong—have apparently now surpassed the vampire and fantasy genres in the young adult fiction market. The books, and the phenomenon of their...
View ArticleThe Banal Road to Perdition: Cliché, Political Failure, and What the Tea...
We remember the first time we encountered the argument that the simplicity of PowerPoint presentations actually facilitated the US decision to enter into Iraq.[1] This thesis runs something like the...
View ArticleRace, Theology, and the Politics of Abjection: An Interview with J. Kameron...
In this two-part interview, the theologian J. Kameron Carter discusses his current work regarding political theology and the construction of the modern racialized world, speaks about the Obama...
View ArticleRace, Theology, and the Politics of Abjection: An Interview with J. Kameron...
In this two-part interview, the theologian J. Kameron Carter discusses his current work regarding political theology and the construction of the modern racialized world, speaks about the Obama...
View ArticleBearing the Silence: On James Baldwin and Prayer
It is not unusual to encounter silence in prayer or in writings about prayer; it is, in fact, quite normal, whether it be a romanticized vision of the silent heart basking in the brilliant glory of God...
View ArticleAlways Historicize! On Fredric Jameson, the Tea Party, and Theological...
Theodor Adorno, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Žižek: What do these thinkers have in common? First, they are all Marxists.1 Second, they have...
View ArticleOn the “Monstrosity Of Christ”: Karl Barth in Conversation with Slavoj Žižek...
For a while, I hoped to frame this essay in terms of a dramatic interchange—something along the lines of “A Slovenian philosopher, a British theologian, and a Swiss dogmatician walk into a bar . . . ”1...
View ArticleSaving von Balthasar’s Conversation with Barth: A Review of Saving Karl Barth
Catholics and Protestants have been at odds for nearly five centuries. From the ninety-five criticisms on a Wittenberg door to the Thirty Years’ War to the bloody politics of the English Reformation...
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