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Amanda Berg

Amanda Berg is a PhD student at Saint Louis University in the joint degree program with Theology and Healthcare Ethics. Her work focuses mainly on suffering and how ancient authors offer different insights into how healthcare professionals might conceive of or address suffering for themselves and their patients. She holds an MTS from Loyola Maryland University, and a BA in Classics with a concentration in Ancient Greek from the University of Virginia.

Symposia

Pandemic, Pandemonium, and Public Health: Reflections on COVID-19

This second “flash” symposium seeks to continue our discussion on COVID-19, but from a broader, public angle.

The Theopolitics of Vaccinations

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

Essays

Vaccine Supporters and Skeptics as Prophets: A Theopolitics of Vaccines
The Rupture of Desire: An Interview with China Miéville

The following is a small portion of a longer interview with China Miéville in the journal Political Theology.

Pussy Riot and the Church

This piece is from the Political Theology Network archives originally posted on August 23, 2012.

In Memoriam: Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas and the Journey of Theology Toward the Future

The prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas of Pergamon (Ecumenical Patriarchate) passed in Athens, on February 2, 2023.

Vulnerability

From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity. At which point does the unavoidable vulnerability of the living condition come to expression as political agency? Can such precarious politics constitute or configure an alternative community?