…something beneath the surface of what Frank is pointing out, and what confuses so many of my students and frustrates so many outside the U.S. about American politics. American politics…
…I think it sets up a contrast worth keeping. Lefort contrasts his sense of “the political” with what he calls a “‘modern’ notion of politics.” The modern notion of politics…
…at least for this reader, provided a more pointed critique of power, particularly global power structures, and of the politics that not only deny the climate crisis, but also work…
The Institute for Theology and Politics (ITP) is conceived to be a generator for establishing the first Balkan, i.e., post-Yugoslav contextual theology with a political-theological and theological-liberatory orientation. Along with…
…religious studies has seen a complexification of analyses of what constitutes religion in relation to politics, culture, economics, and power. Simultaneously, in the academy and in public discourse, essentialist definitions…
…maintaining a charitable, respectful voice. But he does question those other views, often relentlessly, always by piling up scripture upon scripture and by a raft of rhetorical questions which flow…
…Or rather, I am not sure that Scripture can provide the kinds of answers we may want. Christians believe in the revelatory power of Scripture, but that does not mean…
…from your heart.” Matthew 18:21–35 (NRSV) One of the skills that I am most grateful for developing in seminary is the ability to hold onto traditional interpretations of scripture pretty…
…to Israel, the expected answer to the nation’s plight. With the death of Christ, it appeared as if the promise of the Scripture had perished too. The Scriptures were now…
…that persistently reframes the intertwining of biblical interpretation and biopolitics through the figure of Babel/Babylon. As she shows, the pervasive theopolitics of American discourse, right and left, is informed by…
…if were a foreign tongue, lightly dismissed as inconsequential by some while attacked as a hostile and violent threat by others. To any hearer familiar with the Hebrew Scriptures, Jesus’s…
…to become Egypt—a nation that is, within the Hebrew scriptures, a prophetic symbol of inhospitality and injustice. On June 12th, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit…