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The Catholic Social Ethic of Mother Teresa

politics, but the recently canonized founder of the Missionaries of Charity throughout her life claimed to have no interest in politics, instead focusing on her own vocation of charitably serving…

A Politics of Producing American History and Ancient Sacred Memory

…this memory. The present reading of Psalm 80 comparatively reflects on an ancient politics of memory inscribed in biblical psalms vis-à-vis a contemporary politics of American history discourse. Both cultural…

The Supreme Court as a Model for Politics

…antagonisms that they have so powerfully symbolized in their legal capacity. Alastair Roberts is a blogger and writes the regular feature on the politics of Scripture for Political Theology Today….

Unlocking History’s Meaning

…entire Scripture is about the suffering and glory of the Christ. Jesus gives these fearful disciples the key to Scripture, the key that is Jesus’ own history. As Irenaeus famously…

The Politics of Church Survival—Matthew 16:13-20 (Timothy Simpson)

the normal rules for interpreting scripture which we scrupulously followed everywhere else in the Bible. For the plain sense of the scripture has Jesus giving Peter binding and loosing authority…

The Politics of Advent—Romans 13:11-14 (Fritz Wendt)

…door, we discovered a picture and a quote from Scripture (most of them from the prophets). With four of us, every fourth day was my day to open a door….

The Politics of the Forerunner

…not necessarily the true politics of Jesus, who rejected the way of the messianic knigly politics of Malachi. References: Yoder, John Howard. 2011. Revolutionary Christianity: The 1966 South American Lectures,…

Books We Love, Part 5

…Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics and Black Feminist Theories of the Human Dr. Weheliye is a visionary thinker in articulating issues surrounding race, ideas of the human and discourses on biopolitics.

On Drawing Normative Distinctions: Populism between “Honest” and “Hijacked” Christianity

…to “document the on-going cultural revolution” in Norway. This appeal characterizes a concern with the purity of the people crucial to populist politics. As Farid Hafez, founding editor of the

The Politics of Retelling

…of Jesus Christ problematic? Or to put it in another way, what is the politics of retelling particularly in relation to the stories of the Bible? How do we understand…

A Political Theology of Election(s)

…conveniently excluding women to be represented in Indian electoral politics.  If politics is about ‘polis’ (people and polity), and if elections are about choosing leaders who can serve the ‘polis,’…

…national struggles about theology, politics, and culture. It also asserts the transition of prophetic power from one powerful personality to another and validates the successor’s credentials by showing Elisha’s own…