…and disciplines necessary for a community whose very existence seeks to embody an alternative politics to the politics of this world. To those whose life is hidden with Christ in…
…thanatopolitics.”[4] Attending to literary form as a response to the politics of mortality and death shows how aesthetic objects participate in reimagining our social lives. Adding to Sherman’s analysis here,…
…specifically, the spiritual formation of the blind man shows the self-contradiction of the politics of exclusion that can be operative in a society and culture. Let us examine the politics…
…on breaking millennials’ skepticism of politics; as a recent BARNA study noted, ‘millennials seek authenticity’—politics doesn’t provide this.[4] Lastly international passivity amongst millennial Christians indicates domestic issues at home dominate…
…has unsettling resonances for contemporary liberal visions of both sex and politics. It suggests that even the privatized and autonomous vision of sexuality held out in the antipolitics of pornography…
…many of those in positions of leadership prefer to traffic in the politics of fear. The rejection of the politics of righteousness by American political and religious leaders in favor…
…of political rule suffused by eros—a politics displayed in David’s lament for Saul and Jonathan—may provide an illuminating challenge to our attempts to pursue a rational politics beyond such dynamics….
…Press, 2006) 134-135. [This post is part of our series on the politics of scripture, which focuses on weekly preaching texts. We also welcome commentary on sacred, classic, and profane…
Psalm 85 speaks of the meeting of justice and peace in a kiss in God’s new order. While we often futilely pursue such a goal through our politics, in Scripture…
…Hannah M. Strømmen has recently called “lived scripture.” (Paper delivered at the 2019 SBL Annual Meeting, “Bibles and Bible Users in the Era of Populist Politics.” No digital link.) As…
…relationship between religion and politics. The book will interest students and scholars of American political thought, as well as those with an interest in religion and politics.” Maarit Forde &…
…well as being generative. This is what Rancière means when he identifies democracy as the “principle of politics.” Before politics congeals into sovereign power, before it is established as a…