…ordination candidate in the United Church of Christ Metropolitan Boston Association. This post is part of the series, the Politics of Scripture. We welcome submissions on Scriptures from any religion….
…a cue from him, I shall equate these three forms of sovereignty/economy to three forms of theology. After all, specific forms of politics relate to specific economic structures as well…
…hand, the strong anti-statism that had animated anticolonial politics since the nineteenth century – that saw the state as evil, a tool of capitalist-colonial ruling classes—remained resilient. When India and…
…The political standoff in Washington is just one, tragic symptom of profound divisions that are rendering our global house uninhabitable. It is time we cast aside the politics of resentment,…
…God wouldn’t be, and that group is English Protestants and where God would not be, they decided, was in politics. Per historian of religions Robert Yelle, (what follows is a paraphrase): the idea that…
…same: “The nature of a thing is its end” (Politics, Book 1). To understand the nature of a thing is to understand its end, its specific form of thriving. To…
…ISIS is the growing disillusion of the Iraqi Sunnis with the government of Al Malki who has marginalized Sunni in different areas of politics and public life. In other words,…
…on access to communal natural resources more than men and have been most penalized by their privatization and most committed to their defense.” – Silvia Federici, “Feminism and the Politics…
…Coercive Politics and Good News Throughout this recent debate, Good News has represented itself as vouchsafing two central United Methodist values: (1) the unity of the tradition, and (2) the…
…theology “understands politics as an organization of everyday life founded on the imagination of the sacred.” Now, Kahn has a rather idiosyncratic understanding of what political theology is. In Kahn’s…
…of constitutional politics that defines civic requirements as pronouncements of Islamic law — and does so precisely in order to domesticate Islamic politics within their societies and subordinate it to…
…and politics as they collide with—or, perhaps, in order to better forge—intersections between academic political theology and political engagement. In these conversations, this series also aims to highlight and attend…