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Against Cruelty

…policies or movements we support, let us please resist the many forms of cruelty that threaten to destroy such political theological activities from within. Let us resist the deadly metamorphoses…

The Joy of the Lord is our strength—Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

…poet John O’Donohue: On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the…

…privilege tend to become accustomed to a world that conforms to their desires. In modern banking this mode of thinking continues with equally deadly consequences. In 21st century American society,…

Viral and Human Origins

…conceived of and cobbled together. It has too many distinct features, some of which are counterintuitive… You wouldn’t do this if you were trying to make a more deadly virus.”…

Ernst Bloch

…and God is not dead?  Bloch cites the legend on Florian Geyer’s sword, Nulla crux, nulla corona, and seems to read it as a precursor to the anarchist slogan “No…

The End of “Grand Narratives” and America’s “Spiritual Recession”

…God,” which all too many of his acolytes mistakenly interpret as a simple sage of human liberation. Zarathustra proclaimed that once God was dead, the mysterious and in some ways…

Can Water Spring from Dry Land?

…(verse 4). The supplication suddenly blasts open the scene of a nearly deadly conflict, inviting the possibility of a disruptive force that can alter the situation. What at first appeared…

The End of the World in Biblical Tradition

…the first heaven will pass away and a new heaven will appear, but these books are more interested in human destiny, including the judgment of the dead, than in the…

Political Theology releases volume 24.1, a special issue on “The Political Imaginarium”

…juridical. Following Kantorowicz and Marin’s argumentative line, this paper addresses the ways in which absent or dead bodies can act politically, in particular, the shift in political legitimation that goes…

In the Belly of the Colony

…as morphogenesis, which for her also occurs through the Coatlicue state. In wallowing and sinking “deeper and deeper” into the soul, which like mictlan resembles the “place of the dead,”…

The Politics of Resurrection and Resistance—John 20:1-18 (John Allen)

…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…

Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption and the Contemporary Moment

…intervene in any meaningful sense against political violence. In something of a standoff between a system of revelation and a system of reason, Rashkover contrasts Rosenzweig’s political dead-end with Arendt’s…