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Essays

Logoclasm? Not without Logogenics

This is the aspect that worries me most: radical logoclasm as the license to violence that can establish itself as a permanent stasis, infinitely delaying the logogenic challenge of creating a new way of speaking.

Loving Mary with All Our Minds

This essay is part of a book forum on Immaculate Misconceptions by Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones.

Senghor, Negritude, and Political Community

Translating Senghor’s political writings shows the continued relevance of Negritude in the conceptualization of political community in the wake of the encounter between Africa and Euro-America. However, framing the translation, like engaging any of Senghor’s work, ought to pay close attention to his African critics.

Walter Benjamin’s Epistemology Through Art

This article delves into Walter Benjamin’s epistemology, focusing especially on his perspective on art and historical reflection.

Decolonising Christian Kerygma

Decolonising Christian proclamation, therefore, is measured not by the charisma of the preacher or the spectacle of performance, but by its fidelity to the incarnational logic of God’s self-giving and its capacity to engender liberative transformation in lived contexts.

Politics, Speech and Voice

Politics does not lie in interruption as such, but rather in a process that includes this transition. This transition does not simply reaffirm the existing logos, but must be able to restructure or modify it significantly each time. From this perspective, Lapidot’s true politics reveals its other name: translation.

A Latino Man’s Reaction to a Black Woman’s Mariology

Mary is anti-polarizing and liberative while not collapsing difference or homogenizing identity. Latine theology has a word for that: mestizo/a/e

What Is African Political Theology?

We need to critique the fact that political theology has turned into ideology in Africa.

An Introduction to Walter Benjamin and Theology

We asked a diverse array of scholars to share their reflections on Walter Benjamin and the role that theology plays in his thought, as well as the strengths and limitations of his approach to theology at various stages of his work.

Literary Solidarities, Reconfiguring Communities 

As a corrective to their corruption and total misconception of God’s character, Micah puts forth the disposition God requires – the triad to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God.

Beyond the Binary of Violence and Non-Violence

Violence here is not the symmetric flipside of speech. While destroying the semblance of peaceful normality, the violence of Palestinian armed struggle “communicates” on a political and epistemic level: it violently makes violence visible.

Colonizing One’s Own

The ongoing attempts to control both narrative and people after Renee Good’s killing are examples of what Paul Virilio describes as endo-colonization. It has very deep roots.