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Going Down to the Sea with Job, Psalms, and Shakespeare

…and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?– 9 when I made the clouds…

Apocalyptic Witness: Johann Baptist Metz (1928–2019)

In the first week of this Advent season, on December 2nd, 2019, Johann Baptist Metz became one of “the dead” of whom he so lovingly and insistently spoke. Upon hearing…

The Book of Esther as Resistance to Ethnic Nationalism—Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22

…the Five Scrolls for Today (Fortress Press, 2018). In October 2017, author Sasha Polakow-Suransky published an opinion piece in the online New York Times entitled “White Nationalism Is Destroying the…

The Withering Away of the Law

…we may obey it?” 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may…

The Politics of God’s Sealed Message—John 6:24-35 (Amy Allen)

…an official seal in the first century functioned in a similar way to an official seal today. A seal served as a mark of identification, either marking ownership or certifying…

The Politics of Treasured Words

…himself alone. 9As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Tell no one about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”…

The Messenger is the Message

…reverses the role played by “messenger” in the cultural milieu. Messages in the Persian empire were written on scrolls, signed by a royal authority, and hand delivered or read by…

The Politics of Scripture: Resurrection in Bits and Pieces (Luke 24:1-12 and 1 Cor 15:19-26)

…among the dead? He is not here, but has risen’” (Luke 24: 1,4,5; NRSV). That the resurrection is a beleaguered doctrine in North America and in Europe is hardly a…

The Politics of Proclamation—John 20:1-18 (Jan Rippentrop)

…common sense. Mary would have expected that dead people stay dead. Or to put a finer point on it, people dead for three days certainly stay dead. Mary’s analysis that…

Marx’s Grave: The Comradeship of the Dead

…so I had better make my visit brief if I was not to spend the night with the bones of the dead. I strode down the path, followed the left…

CFP: Political Theology Network Conference, April 2022, deadline extended!

…funding from your home institution.  Deadline for proposals: 12/15; the deadline has been extended to 12/31. Notification: 1/7 To submit a proposal please email politicaltheologynetwork@gmail.com with “PTN Conference Proposal” in the…

Becoming and Transitioning: Names Then and Now

…said on their blog) recently that mentions a trans person’s discomfort with the terminology of “deadname.” He states:  Why I don’t say “dead name.” I was born premature, and my…