…society) and the divine call to justice that should birth politics—a Catholic case for politics as justice’s tool, not politics first. If he were to stop here, we would be…
…the intersection of affect and politics – calls the desire for a “riskless” politics, which is also to say a self-defeating apolitical politics. It wants “to achieve everything, but risk…
…theses/antitheses, but, because the theses are from Scripture, Jesus’ form raises a host of questions regarding the “authority of Scripture.” The first thesis is in v.21, “You have heard that…
…from explicit theological commitments and took for granted the relevance of Christian Scripture to political discourse. In short, it was an age which had no need for a discrete activity…
…in part, by the long-standing Politics of Scripture series hosted by Political Theology Today, the predecessor to the Political Theology Network. Over the last seven years, this series has featured…
…is unsustainable. The politics of the commands themselves as well as the politics of the conversations in which those commands are embedded continue to be instructive for faithful communities today….
…follow the logic of the rhetoric. Thus he partitions the prophets off from politics: Politics lies just beyond the prophecy, but the biblical prophets, judging from their texts, did not…
…political theology.” Barbara Holmes, The Politics of Vision: Transforming the Presidency, in Political Theology, (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Online, 2007, 8:4, p.417-428). “This essay engages the “politics of vision” as a potential template…
…a politics based on the cynicism of 1968—on the collapse of revolutions into triviality—a politics, that is, that cannot accommodate phenomena like 1989, the phenomenon of real, lasting, this-worldly revolution…
…of human dignity and solidarity within a non-polarizing practice of hospitality. Pope Francis’s address to Congress on 24 September, 201, set forth a vision of a politics of hospitality, advocating…
…order to relate” (256). In contrast to notions of politics arising from a friend/enemy distinction (strangely fascinating to recent political theology), politics as imagined here begins from making kin, because…
…of yourself to your students. In that sense, there is no avoiding politics in the classroom. Politics is not something imported from “outside;” even the “disinterested philosopher” is making a…