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Agamben Symposium: Charles Mathewes

…in a career or after the author is dead. Others—the academic version of one hit wonders—flash up in an instant, are talked about—though not as often talked to, and still…

The Politics of Saving Everybody—Genesis 9:8-17 (Timothy Simpson)

…the Father.—Philippians 2:9-11   But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. For since death came through a human being,…

Lauren Berlant

…nation out of its crisis. Wrapped up in a cloud of sentiment, few paused to ask another set of questions. Namely: How does this politician’s grief for his dead son…

…by the American war machine, ameliorate poverty, reform a racist and unjust judicial system, and empower communities can often seem like a dead end street, but the light of hope…

Announcing New and Forthcoming Books in Political Theology

…publisher: “God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions,…

“Will the Dust Praise You?”: Theologizing Death

…“blur the line between the living and the dead,” Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (23) notes how such ideologies create notions of “everlasting glory.” Sheets-Johnstone calls such ideologies “immortality ideologies” because they invoke…

Luce Irigaray

…so as to protect himself from the permanence of becoming dead,” she writes. Air, as Irigaray sees it, is “the element most resistant to this operation.” Air will not let…

The Death of a Fascist Does Not Mean the Death of Fascism: A Storied and Theological Plea for Non-Violent, Disruptive Anti-Fascism

…the cover of the book in my brother’s hands—a black and white photo of what appears to be a fascist rally with a sea of people raising their right hands—she…

European Refugee Crisis Challenges Continent’s Most Hallowed Principles and Values

…make me alive when I was a dead person. Still a practicing Muslim, I underwent nothing short of a miracle, to find myself again. I was dead, but when I…

Performing Indifference: On Atheism and Political Theology

…in the shadow of Christianity. Nietzsche might have recognized such a tendency, when he elliptically opined in The Gay Science, “After Buddha was dead people showed his shadow for centuries afterwards…

Looking for Seeds amid Stumps

…one of the crucial motors of ecological renewal. Dead stumps are destined once again to become thriving trees. This duality of the stump as both remnant of death and cradle…

The Tree Is Always Known By Its Fruit

…into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, 3 and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat…