…He becomes both passion and its transformation. —————————- Rachel Mann [This post is part of our series on the politics of scripture, focusing on weekly preaching texts. We also welcome…
…and politics overlap. Between these two sorts of extremes, how Christians ought to talk about politics and the overlap between religion and politics, there are all sorts of varieties of…
…good thing or not. It is, “How do we tell the difference between good religion and politics and bad religion and politics?” Or, put more neutrally, “What kind of religion…
…to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.” The politics of Jesus is not the politics of this…
…better have delivered. Trump has succeeded in surfacing a trajectory in American politics long in the making, that politics is another kind of market transaction, and to succeed in politics,…
…a surplus of meaning and lived life that transcends them to flow and feed the endless streams of life. I name it mystic-politics, then, rather than mysticism and politics, upon…
…“politics” very broadly, sometimes ad absurdum. Kenneth A. Shepsle, in Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior, and Institutions, by way of example, says “politics” is “utterly indistinguishable from the phenomena of group…
…form of politics stands the politics of Wisdom. This is a politics that begins in the loves and desires of the well-guarded heart. It is a politics that calls for…
…gospel by orchestrating and administering a politics of collective happiness at the expense of truth. All real politics, the Grand Inquisitor suggests, is a politics of the lie, albeit a…
…In sum, Jonathan Cole regretted the “cacophony” of a “bewildering diversity” of Christian attitudes to politics within contemporary political theology, and called for a deeper knowledge of politics and political…
…politics of this piece of scripture our attention should fix on him. The politics of this passage has two traditional foci. First, some scholars have explored the sexual politics of…
[This article is part of the series, The Politics of Scripture. While the focus of the series is on weekly preaching texts, we welcome commentary on sacred, classic, and profane…