Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy reveals how religion became not a check on power—but its strategic lifeblood.
If God reconciled us while we were still enemies, how should Christians view and speak about those they consider their enemies?
Why did Dwight Hopkins, a leading Black liberation theologian and a longtime University of Chicago professor, move toward MAGA?
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones responds to the book forum on her newly published, Immaculate Misconceptions.
Luke Roberts introduces the essays in the symposium on Religion and Public Life.
Benjamin devises a pure sacrificial ethos, devoid of the profanities of teleology. Benjamin’s account of sacrifice is saturated with emancipatory sacred dispositions.
God’s love nullifies every hierarchy based on ancestry and ethnicity, since birth does not determine status in the eyes of God. With equal measure it rejects the idea that some are above accountability and some do not deserve justice.
This essay is part of a book forum on Immaculate Misconceptions by Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones.
Everywhere, adults laugh at children for their giddy games, whereas they are blind to the ways in which their pretend play shapes every aspect of their lives and leads to exploitation and injustice. Human experience, particularly the experience of the youngster – where the ground of the soul and the ground of God come together in an overflow of light, constitutes the basis for the radical immanence of God within the world.
Even with mounting evil and manipulative tactics to conceal evil, Lent reminds us that in order to fight death, our weapons must be truth and justice.
Even the highly professionalized logos of scholarly discourse does not just suffer from logoclastic dynamics but is positively animated by them.