…themselves. One can see this distinction by imaging what difference it would make if God were dead. If God were dead, if God were never really real in the first…
…many other forms of religious festivity. The rites of Spring and the distinctive Christian belief in the resurrection of their faith’s founder from the dead as an actual occurence in…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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,…
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…
…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 If God were dead, if God were never really real in the first place, or if God had somehow retired or withdrawn from…
…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…
…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…