…which preoccupied a previous generation of scholars of religion and politics. Instead, the authors look at a power that intervenes to reform being itself, “the unity of life” or its…
…experience a shock of recognition in confronting the Constitution as scripture, American exceptionalism as theocracy, and the practice of American racism as rituals of sacrifice. Shulman’s American Prophecy doesn’t style-itself…
…in politics, without suffering thereby any abridgment. If some believers still seem to find themselves facing a conflict of loyalties, this just shows that they haven’t understood rightly what religion…
…desire for and establishment of a name is expressed elsewhere in the Hebrew Scriptures, it is not used to communicate pride or self-centeredness. Instead, to have a name established by…
…doctrine, i.e., are principles “that have been taught authoritatively but not infallibly by the magisterium” through reflection on Scripture, tradition and experience (89). Examples include the church’s teaching about the…
…In the same way, liturgy used to serve as a method of connecting the layperson, who could not read the scripture for herself and minister who had access to the…
…From thinkers like Grotius, Hooker, Locke, Butler, and others, we have inherited new approaches to natural law, new ways of envisioning Scripture’s moral authority, new conceptions of rights, and so…
…of the more difficult texts in our scriptures. Although it may often be thematically sublimated, the violent conquest of Canaan is never disowned in the New Testament. Indeed, the implicit…
…ancient Greece were “the willing or unwilling authors of democracy.” And then the pregnant analogy: “tyranny was always a constant and ambiguous model for politics in Greece. And after all,…
…approval of such violent acts within their holy scriptures? In the case of the Pinḥas narrative, subsequent Rabbinic commentary stays faithful to the sacred text while at the same time…
…book clubs, mentorship programs, and a suite of blogs, including Politics of Scripture, Catholic Re-Visions, Critical Theory for Political Theology, Literature and Political Theology, and The Brink. Today, we are…
…of abstraction, indeed of mediation altogether, for embodied discipline. In contrast, “The Idea” dismantled comparative religions’ distinctions informing contemporary anthropology: between the universalist “world religions” with script and scripture—the “Great…