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PT 15.6:  A Symposium on William T. Cavanaugh’s “The Myth of Religious Violence”

…question: “Are wars between nations with different religions (one of those named above) more deadly than wars between nations with the same religion?” If religion tends to exacerbate violence, then…

The Parable of the Condescending Father

…his feet. 23 And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; 24 for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he…

Revisiting Reflections on Relics and Contagion in Two Parts

…The objects at the heart of these constructions are themselves often the remains of a person, a trace of a crime, some remnant of, most often, a dead person, or…

Easter Courage: The Politics of Acts 5:27-32

…enact the very test I suspect all want the risen Christ to pass. Is he really dead flesh returned to life. Has the crucified one truly returned after such a…

Confronting the Existential Crisis of Political Theology

In this prolonged season of death and terror, it was perhaps easy to overlook the loss of Ernesto Cardenal, the mystic, poet, priest, and liberation theologian who died at 95…

The Woman Who Changed Jesus’ Mind About Dehumanizing Immigrants 

…us scratching our heads as we search for meaning; other texts leave us profoundly disturbed by their violent, misogynistic, and even dehumanizing characters. The Bible is not an easy book,…

AAR Political Theology Unit Call for Papers – 2024

The deadline for submission to the AAR Annual Meeting’s Political Theology Unit is February 29 (at 5:00pm American EST). If you haven’t submitted a proposal already, we would love to…

The Politics of Scripturing—Matthew 5:21-37

…it would make if God were dead. If God were dead, if God were never really real in the first place, or if God had somehow retired or withdrawn from…

Suffering, Resistance, and Resurrection – Anna Floerke Scheid

…a vision of the humanum – the human community fully flourishing. In Christian theology, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, which we celebrate in a few weeks, is…

The Politics of Bedazzlement—Mark 9:2-9 (Mark Davis)

…they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. The story of the “transfiguration” begins with a time stamp—it occurs six days after Jesus makes…

My Fickle Friends by Bashar al-Assad

…Karimov as well, just because all his opposition is either dead or in prison. And the media too – just the other day our pictures were splashed across Vogue, and…

The “Third Iraq War” and the Tragedy of American History (Carl Raschke)

…Tragedies are not merely unanticipated incidents with terrible consequences, as when we use the word, for example, to describe the assassination of a president or a deadly car accident. Tragedies…