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The Land is Not Silent—Joshua 24:1-18

…the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your ancestors with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. 7When they cried out to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the…

Considering Climate Change in the Lenten Season

This year, the editorial team of the Politics of Scripture is excited to host a 6-week Lenten series on climate change and ecojustice. During the liturgical season of Lent, beginning…

The Nonbinary Creation

…appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. 11…

The Politics of Confrontation and Promise—Micah 6:1-8 (Benjamin Kautzer)

…who have been saved from Egypt. In the New Testament, Paul teaches the same way. He says that Christians are ‘dead to sin.’ Because they are ‘dead to sin,’ they…

On the Ubiquity of Entropy

…is merely gestating in a “moratorium,” cryogenic environments that extend brain activity in dead bodies into a “half-life,” in the hope that the “souls” of the deceased will find new…

Racializing and Establishing Catholic Heterodoxy: Traffic Stops as Theological Spaces

…religious materials), the search and seizure of vehicles, and the violation of fourth amendment rights of Mexican and Mexican-American drivers often rely on faith-based determinations between orthodoxy and heterodoxy. Officers…

Money

…money epiphenomenal is a way into the orbit of political theology. Richard Seaford and Devin Singh draw attention to the relationship between monetization and the development of fundamental theological and…

Eating Together—Luke 14:1, 7-14

…all aspects of life. In a symposium dinner, guests were seated proximate to the host according to their stature. This was an opportunity not only to enact the social stratification…

Under our Feet

…of the field, birds of the air, fish of the sea, and sea creatures, all of which the Lord has given humans dominion over. This causes the psalmist to exclaim,…

A Political Theology of Presence

…air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 9O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! The psalmist…

Disciplinary crossings

…work, political and cultural anthropology, they have invited their colleagues to consider the materiality of the ineffable: the dead, the excess, the more-than-human, the negative. In political theology, or more…

PTNCON25: Call for Seminar Streams

…of our ongoing effort to experiment with conference structure and format, we will accept proposals in two stages: proposals for seminar streams (deadline: April 1, 2025 April 7, 2025) and…