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Ben Menghini

Ben Menghini is Visiting Instructor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Norbert College and a PhD candidate at Emmanuel College in The University of Toronto. His research interrogates the possibility of a “Generous Orthodoxy” by borrowing tools from sociology and cultural studies. He is particularly interested in the methodological and ethical implications of doctrinal truth claims in a pluralistic world.

Essays

Doxa

Doxa is a term used in sociology to contend with belief and orthodoxy without reducing either to behavior or cognition. It explores disposition and embodied belief—the gut sense of the world which is acquired through practice rather than discourse.

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?