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The Lord Answering Job from the Whirlwind by Lluís Ribes Mateu CC BY-NC 2.0
Catholic Re-Visions

Sifting for God’s Will: Sketching Providence in the work of Gustavo Gutiérrez

The question then is not so much: “Can providence be liberative?” but rather, “How might liberation be understood as God’s providence?”

By E. David de Leon
Performing Indifference: On Atheism and Political Theology

This essay outlines an ontological form of atheism to suggest novel ways to conceptualize political theology and forms of socio-political praxis. An atheism of indifference is offered as a means to resist the theological framing of socio-political issues.

By Hollis Phelps
True Vines and True Branches

If Jesus is a vine, can we really accept a theology which permits us to sit back and take without contributing anything ourselves?

By Christy Randazzo

Around the Network

Palestine and Political Theology Virtual Event

The journal Political Theology will host an event on “Palestine and Political Theology” April 4 at 2pm eastern.

By Announcements
From the Archives: Just War

For the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal Political Theology, we are diving into the journal’s archives to share highlights of what we have published. In this installment, here are some of the articles we have published on questions of just war

By Announcements
Announcing the Political Theology Article Contest

The journal Political Theology announces its first ever article contest for all accepted unsolicited submissions in the year 2024. Submit your article now!

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Symposia

Life Live Green by FotoRain CC BY-NC 2.0
The Brink

New Theologies of Nature

This symposium brings together three thinkers on the ideas of nature, animals, God, and the relationship between all of them.

By The Editors
The Politics of Atheism

The Politics of Atheism Symposium sheds light on atheism’s emancipatory force. With a commitment to immanence, atheism can provide a counterweight to the pervasive appeals to God or other transcendent ideas used to legitimate systems of domination.

By Julian Forth
Re-(En)Visioning Liberation: 50 years after Gustavo Gutiérrez’s A Theology of Liberation

Across these six essays, the role of liberation as either a political end or a methodological concept is problematized as means to thinking beyond liberation to a material politics darkly intuited but urgently needed.

By Timothy "Coup" Couper

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