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Marika Rose

Marika Rose is Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at Dublin City University. She works at the intersection of continental philosophy and systematic theology. Her current work seeks to develop a political theology of care, drawing in themes from cinema, political philosophy, and Christian social action. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, she is the author of A Theology of Failure: Žižek Against Christian Innocence (Fordham University Press, 2019) and Theology for the End of the World (SCM Press, 2023).

Symposia

The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (2013)

“Literature–or “imaginative writing”–is not simply a window into understanding the theo-political positioning of author and reader, but also a medium for experimentation, in which the familiar is made strange and the strange becomes familiar. “

Essays

To Build Jerusalem

Davidson’s Saving Utopia narrates the decline and renews the call for utopic vision, but, if we forget the imbrication of heaven with hell—of utopia with dystopia—we will be doomed to repeat it.

The American Fantasy: Gender, Work, and Freedom in The Golem and the Jinni

“I was only imagining it. Being freed.”