A controlled burn of the grasslands at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACCC) / St Mark’s National Theological Center (nTC) - https://flic.kr/p/26zkZ1f

Political and Planetary Volatilities

By Catherine Keller

Eschaton means first of all edge, not end. The edgy theology that takes responsibility for its historical and its apocalyptic politics will avoid the cheap hopes of denialism and the depressive purity of hope-free nihilism.

Justice

Contemporary rabbinic authorities have established this religious obligation as carrying scriptural authority – citing no fewer than five affirmative Commandments and three Biblical prohibitions.

Body Politics

The trouble in American Evangelicalism and in Christianity more broadly, is that standing face-to-face with our Messiah, we find ourselves at a loss of how to serve. What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? What, beyond the instinctive sense that we are to follow Christ, does it mean to follow? What are we looking for?

The Politics of Scripture
Practices and Pluralism
By Aristotle Papanikolaou
History
Political Theology in the Absence of Authority
By Faisal Devji
History
Law and Political Obligations
By Cathleen Kaveny
History
Political Theology and Political Crisis
By Danube Johnson
States of Exception

Around the Network

With the Centre for Theology and Public Issues in the School of Divinity, the Institute offers the CTPI Duncan Forrester Fellowship for early-career researchers working in public theology, especially in relation to areas such as peacebuilding and the arts, politics and migration, environmental ethics, and law and justice.

Around the Network

For the sixth year in a row, we are hosting a party in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion meeting.

Around the Network

The Political Theology Network invites applications from early-career scholars for its 2020-2021 Emerging Scholars in Political Theology program.

Around the Network

Symposia

"Vaccination Day"

The Theopolitics of Vaccinations

By Rubén Rosario Rodríguez & Amanda Berg

A collection of diverse reflections on faith, spirituality, and the anti-vaxxer crisis…

Body Politics

To commemorate twenty years of the journal Political Theology, we asked a variety of scholars, including those in the Political Theology Network’s editorial collective, to reflect on where the field has been, where it is, and where it is going.

History

We asked two thinkers to reflect on possible points of intersection between political theology and disability studies. Both thinkers approached this question by considering how critical disability studies might help inform our understanding of the ongoing crisis at the United States’ southern border.

Justice

ASSEMBLY Podcast

The Assembly podcast is back for the new year with a new season and a new set of co-hosts, Zac Settle and Amaryah Shaye Armstrong. On part one of this episode, they talk about what’s in store for the political theology podcast and discuss Houria Bouteldja’s book Whites, Jews, and Us.

Part 2 of our conversation on how white teaching and preaching have changed — can change — still need to change in the face of #BlackLivesMatter.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

The first half of our conversation about how white teaching and preaching how white preaching and teaching can change, have changed, and/or must still change in the face of #BlackLivesMatter (the moment and the movement).

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Podcast: Play in new window | Download