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Political Theology, Justice, And The State – On The Background To The Course

theology and ethics at the Pacific Theological College in Fiji Islands. His research interests lie in political theology and Christian social ethics. He contributes regularly to the Politics of Scripture

Elected to be consumed

…American politics and 24-hour cable news, and therefore, substantively no different. Rather than partisan moral outrage, though, I was left feeling only cynical and agitated. And in a social media…

Prophetic politics: Forgiveness and restorative justice

…a prophetic politics that respectively critique 1) shallow notions of Christian forgiveness that are all to common in the church, and 2) notions of state sovereignty in the process of…

Survivance

…him, democratic politics inevitably devolves into an “us” versus “them.” The analyses of each of these thinkers, while subject to debate, is flawed. De Toqueville’s observations miss, among other blind…

The Politics of Famine—Ruth 1:1-22 (Amy Allen)

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab,…

Please Mind the “God” Gap

…to navigate” than a pass. From this definition, three elements might contribute to analyses of US intersections of “God” and politics: the distinction of low and high, the in-between nature…

The Politics of Extraordinary Ordinariness—Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 (Alastair Roberts)

So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the

The Politics of the Way of God

1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; 2 but their…

The Politics of Christ’s Reign—Luke 23:33-43 (Jan Rippentrop)

33 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. 34 Then…

A Power Hungry Politician and a Vulnerable God—The Politics of Matthew 2:13-23

Matthew 2:13-23 13 Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and…

The Politics of Spirit-Led Freedom: Beyond Empire and Exclusion

1 For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and…

The Politics of Liberation—Exodus 20:1-17 (John Allen)

Then God spoke all these words: 2I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3you shall have…