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Political Theological Resistance in Hong Kong

…dignity of life will not be destroyed, for God has raised the crucified Jesus from the dead. Epilogue At the time of writing this essay, there is no sign that…

Shattering Expectations

…age came together. The messianic age meant peace on earth and the end of war, death, disease, and poverty, the ingathering of the exiles, a general resurrection of the dead.”…

Was Rand Paul right about Ferguson?  What Political Theology has to do with Ferguson

…to decide if Michael Brown engaged in conduct that could reasonably be interpreted as constituting a deadly threat. Whatever they decide in this case, it cannot be accepted as reasonable…

The Politics of Nations and Boundaries—Acts 17:22-31 (Richard Davis)

…to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, 27so that they would search for God…

Prophetic Politics beyond “Faith and Works”

…the Epistle of James, the greatest ancient critique of Paul, put it: “Faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead” (James 2:17). Isaiah and Douglass (and James, too)…

Wise Religion

…the knowledge of God filling the earth like the seas. However, a closer reading reveals that the reality is considerably more complex. The passage does not say that the nations…

Spirits Of Blood And Breath – Contrasting Religious Perspectivism With Actual People’s Perspectives (Roger Green)

…consistently causes the problems of human hegemony.” Barbara Mann builds on this by articulating the non-anthropocentric, “twinned cosmos of Indigenous America.” Mann’s deadpan style of writing is refreshing as she…

Stuart Hall

…of Hall, how might political theology understand the national anthem debate, particularly in this political moment when “I can’t breathe” is the deadly refrain of multiple pandemics? The multiplicity resides…

The Brink: Betwixt and Between

…are dead to the old but not quite yet born to the new, the liminal stage is one where certainties are questioned, hierarchies are upended, and nothing is quite what…

Liberalism’s Death Has No Afterlife. Perhaps That’s a Good Thing.

…the just future it pledges. Absent our faith, universal salvation is also precluded. This helps explain the despondency with which those left of center have searched for answers at this…

Women Prevailing Against Limited Vision

…value Scripture and the importance of women’s historical leadership must search for a new vision. I suggest that readers engage what Prof. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza refers to as the hermeneutics…

Contested Signs

…bring someone back from the dead will elicit the desire to kill Jesus. Why? This power is a threat to the biopolitical apparatus of those in power—the ability and will…