To understand what’s going on today, we need to understand the 400 year story of Christian privilege in America.
“Grief is love that has nowhere to go.”
The triangulation of money, sovereignty, and divinity is a good point of entry to study the mutual constitution of theological and political concepts and the questions about ultimate value and social form that they raise.
The promise of a new world, all memories of suffering erased, seems like a gift. But for
whom?
On Thursday, November 10 at 6 PM Eastern Time, the Political Theology Network will host a webinar conversation around Charles Mills’ The Racial Contract.
Judith Butler’s work in queer theory inspires Catholics to consider the material relations of the body and contributes to a mystical-political, eschatological hope.
The sexual abuse of teenage girls at Denton Bible Church is part of a pattern, becoming clearer and clearer, that links conservative evangelical theology to systemic injustice toward women.
How is the term “political theology” used today, and how does it add to our understandings of theology and politics?
An occasional characterization of the Book of Haggai is that it is self-interestedly supportive of the ascendant Persian Empire. I elaborate on this description and then problematize it by demonstrating that this pericope reveals the prophet to be subversively mimicking the Achaemenid imperial metanarrative.
Is it possible to consider an askesis of otherwise imaginaries without falling prey to the ascetic ideal?
A different type of project beckons the queer, brown Christian: Invention, coupled with mourning for what is irrecoverably absent, becomes a necessary spiritual practice for all those who cannot find their own ancestors in the canons of church history
Authoritarianism in Christianity is a feature, not a bug, and it is unlikely to change any time soon. Perhaps on its own it is a problem mainly to those inside the faith. But when Christian authoritarianism hooks up with fierce cultural reaction, it can become a profound problem for society.