…him?” Mark 4:35-41 In my last Politics of Scripture essay, “The Limits of Earthly Sovereignties,” I reflected on Matthew 22:15-22 and Jesus’ critique of earthly sovereignties and lordships. Jesus’ attitude…
…discourse. Our politics happen mostly with speeches and written policy. These aspects of social discernment are essential, but it this weeks lection points us toward the importance of revelation through…
…a ‘visible’ interpretive approach (ideological criticism, LGBTQ hermeneutics, Paul and Politics, ecological hermeneutics, feminist hermeneutics of the Bible) where others do not (Pauline Epistles, Book of Acts, Gospel of Luke,…
…world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:-1-17 The Politics of Love in John 3:16 One of my early childhood…
…always make for good politics. And our politics have little room for grace. As an Israelite living in the shadow of the imperial city of Nineveh, Jonah is not happy…
The politics of religion in America in the Western world over the last several decades is really the politics of naming. The most fundamental question of the politics of naming…
…country is churned by the politics of identity claims. In West Bengal, we see the rise of Matua politics of the Namashudras, Santal politics, Koch Rajavamshi politics. Through the god…
…field of kinship, and racialization into mutual ratification, is, for me, the biopolitics of secularism, where “secularism” names not the extirpation or overcoming of something called “religion” but the disciplinary…
…work. In his 1977 book Speed and Politics, Virilio argues that politics is primarily a matter of movement—who gets to move and who does not, what regulates the circulation of…
…Religion and politics, Christian political theology, conservatism and anarchism, and politics in popular culture. He is the author of God and International Relations: Christian Theology and World Politics (Bloomsbury, 2012)….
…law and politics. Has Marxism made the move from heaven to earth, from religion to law, from theology to politics? In some respects it has, but I have found that…
…art and radical politics? And, if the answer to this last question is yes, then how far is Critchley from Slavoj Žižek’s own exclusion of religion from emancipatory politics when…