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The Politics of Living Consistently—2 Corinthians 5:6–10, (11–13), 14–17 (Stephen Dawson)

…make it our aim to please him. 10For all of us must appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense for what has been done…

Viral Sovereignty

…at risk of deadly infection. If this is not an exception, I’m not sure what is. Exceptional politics—the verdant soil of political theology from Weimar Germany to post 9/11 United…

Mourning

…the death that occasions grief, but grievous ways of living that submerge perception of pain and loss in a sense of inevitability. In Banerjee’s words, “The dead haunt us to…

Gratuitous Violence

…as socially dead in relation to the rest of the world” (Red, White, and Black, 17-18). Wilderson’s use of the terms “a priori” and “contingency” to describe the “appear[ance]” of…

Beyond Blood

…suggests, is repentance, offered to the living, not the dead. This is the honest acceptance of one’s own sin that leads to a turning from the destructive habits of assigning…

CFP: The American Election 2012: Contexts and Consequences

…e-mail, [email protected]. The deadline for submissions is 8 December 2012. Within four weeks after the deadline, the organizers will notify all those who submitted proposals of their decisions. Please be…

Uncertain Hope

…did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10Then the disciples returned to their homes. 11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she…

Are We ISIS? (Ian Almond)

“When all the women were dead, the jihadists burned their bodies inside the houses. After they had finished with the women, the jihadists went back to …where they had locked…

Life That Does Not Demand Death

…the dead on the third day, 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. Luke…

Passion Sunday: The politics of passion  (John 12.1-8)

…darkness the hope for the world and who takes the darkness into his being. He is the rejected one who travels down into the darkness of the dead, who walks…

CFA – University of Edinburgh Religion and Public Life Fellowships

deadline for this Fellowship is 28 February 2020. With the Centre for Theology and Public Issues in the School of Divinity, the Institute offers the CTPI Duncan Forrester Fellowship for…

Revisiting Comfort Women in Light of Political Theology

…meals. We were in the state of ‘half-dead.’ Some girls became really sick and could not recover from the ordeal. The soldiers took them away. We did not know what…