…ongoing revelatory power, these questions were bound to arise. And if the current church is rooted in past revelations—now promulgated by the written texts of Scriptures—and still empowered by ongoing…
…potentially critical light on existing roles and institutions associated with ‘service’. Addressing these concerns effectively depends in large part on exegesis of the Scriptures but also on some level of…
…politics and religion directly attribute to Rushdoony and Christian Reconstructionism the threat posed by conservative evangelicals and their alleged, underlying political program of Christian “dominionism” and, so far, most academic…
…Masculinity, Muslimness and Affective Politics in Pakistan resonated deeply with me, stirring up memories of impassioned arguments with family members about Islam’s place in Pakistan. The role of religion in…
…the ultimate value of the state – our state, not politics in general. We cannot do that as long as we occupy a role or apply a rule within the…
…display in the posted articles. The Wall Street Journal, by contrast, suggests that politics would be healthier if racism were reserved for more serious use. While acknowledging the troubling posts…
…and Americans in total, Mormons in America appear to fit the prevailing stereotype about religious people in politics: Today, too often, “religious” means simply a particularly virulent form of the…
…news magazine The Week moaned. And such a sentiment was not isolated among the vast variety of “never Trump” passionistas. Even Michael Moore, the long-tenured doyen of American progressive politics,…
…impetus: the ‘book is […] an attempt to consider—or indeed reconsider—international politics with the premise that “the world” is not all there is to it: that there is a God…
…in modern politics. Agrama’s brief exploration echoes Koselleck in diagnosing a problem of modern politics without repeating its crisis narration. [1] Bernard Lewis’s The Crisis of Islam infamously claims that…
…Parliament, in one of the committee rooms of the House of Lords. If that is not a “mixing” of theology and politics I am not sure what is! One of…
…us back to Niebuhr’s influence in thinking about the place of prophetic politics in the United States today. The ongoing lesson of Niebuhr’s theology is that it is not only…