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Essays

As One Having Authority—Mark 1:21-28

One of the most striking features of Jesus’s teaching and practice was its authority, which both liberated and bound his hearers. Does the Church dare to speak with authority today?

On Embryos In Burning Buildings

Are Abortion Arguments Rationally Indeterminable?

Forget Schmitt!

Political Theology Must Follow Agamben’s “Double Paradigm” of Sovereignty. The following is the guest editorial for the current issue of the print journal Political Theology (Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2018). 

Political Theology, Vol. 19, Issue 1 Now Available

Political Theology, Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Fishers for a New Kingdom—Mark 1:14-20 (Robert Williamson Jr.)

The call of Jesus to Simon, Andrew, James, and John summons them to leave behind a way of life that supported an exploitative imperial economy and to devote their efforts to serving the kingdom of God instead.