…not usually prompt deadly violence. Questionable cartoons and certain medical procedures elicit such a strong response because some people take them to be personal choices (not even sins), and others…
…do you find most fruitful today? The ‘presence’ of the dead and the practice of attunement to sentient beings. Let me explain: in a recent intervention in PTN with a…
…“objective.” Philosopher Simon Critchley at Trinity Wall Street More concretely, Simon is asking us to rethink the dilemma of politics and belief in our contemporary social and psychological deadlock in…
…rocks. But polite silence is not solidarity (ibid, p. 239); imperialistic intervention and wholesale acquiescence are both dead-ends. However, once we know and have witnessed we are called by the…
…have become especially concrete today. We keep our distance, for fear of contracting and spreading a deadly disease. Our presence with one another is increasingly two-dimensional, as we connect through…
…to these liberals) can become tolerable as dead only. For those of us who understand Islam in all its multiplicity and as a way life, the hope of receiving any…
…or an argumentative foil. It is therefore strange that political theology has had so little to say about atheism. Whereas the language of “secularization” speaks in the deadpan tone of…
…scene of slaughter runs directly contrary to the biblical tale, where the shibboleth functions as a technology for genocide (42,000 killed—and that’s just the men, the only dead who count…
…a witch. The novel features a deadpan style that presents Lolly’s escape as the realization of daydreams that appear absurd to others. But having escaped, Lolly finds—and arguably converts to—a…
…Did they want to be dead before they got a serious hearing? I doubt it very much. Recognition in their own lifetimes would have been a much more acceptable outcome…
…in endeavoring toward a just society. McAllister and Napolitano proffer a call for political theologians to “learn to listen to the dead of the Americas” and to make recourse to…
…too old—and Sarah herself was barren—because he considered him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, ‘as many…