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The Brink

Logoclasm? Not without Logogenics

This is the aspect that worries me most: radical logoclasm as the license to violence that can establish itself as a permanent stasis, infinitely delaying the logogenic challenge of creating a new way of speaking.

By Agata Bielik-Robson
Loving Mary with All Our Minds

This essay is part of a book forum on Immaculate Misconceptions by Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones.

By Nicole Symmonds
Decolonising Christian Kerygma

Decolonising Christian proclamation, therefore, is measured not by the charisma of the preacher or the spectacle of performance, but by its fidelity to the incarnational logic of God’s self-giving and its capacity to engender liberative transformation in lived contexts.

By Raj Bharat Patta

Around the Network

Jan 22: African Political Theology Webinar + Resources
By Vincent Lloyd
Political Theology Virtual Manuscript Workshop
By Announcements
How to Transform Political Theology

From Colombia to South Africa, from a decolonial stance to trauma theory, these scholars have offered polysemous approaches to the political as well as the theological.

By Announcements

Symposia

Critical Theory for Political Theology 3.0

Book Forum: Immaculate Misconceptions

Authors review Immaculate Misconceptions, the first major theological work on the Black Madonna.

By Vincent Lloyd & Zoe Boyle & Héctor Varela Rios & TJ Bryant & Nicole Symmonds
Symposium: Walter Benjamin and Theology
By Political Theology Network & Mario Mikhail & Aleix Muñoz Gómez & Yonathan Busquila Listik & Cristina Grigore
Book Forum: The Politics of Not Speaking by Elad Lapidot

This forum reflects on Elad Lapidot’s The Politics of Not Speaking. In contrast to the common understanding of politics as a domain of speaking, this work reveals an alternative tradition where the spoken word fails, collapses, breaks (i.e., a politics of not speaking).

By Elad Lapidot

ASSEMBLY Podcast

S4 E9: Why Synthetic Religions? On Nature, Culture, and the Political Struggle to Slow Down Time
By Amanda Furiasse
S4 E8 – Religion after the Outrage
By Amanda Furiasse
S 4 E 7- Adaptive Reuse
By Sher Tareen