…truth and the mutual trust and entrusting it produces are health to society’s flesh and marrow to its bones. Alastair Roberts is the contributing editor of the Politics of Scripture….
…Franklin, TN where they attend the Lutheran Church of Saint Andrew. This article is part of the series, the Politics of Scripture. While the focus of the series is on…
…locus of life, the second is characterizing the dynamic that displaces life—it is politics. Although politics is typically understood as a force to promote the public good, Henry’s work suggests…
…and including violence. Our love politics is, in other words, sick; what we have on our hands is a lovesick politics. And it comes in three liberal strains. Lovesickness on…
…My Love. But Kristeva links those explicit discussions of religion with psychoanalysis, not politics. How might we understand the relationship between psychoanalysis, religion, and politics in her thought? Since the…
…Crick, In Defence of Politics A leading British political theorist, Crick was active in Labour Party politics, debates about Scottish independence and curating the legacy of George Orwell. First published…
…first is whether, on the one hand, ethics is merely a modality of politics, in which case ethics is reduced to a form of ideology, or, on the other, politics…
…unevenly. When identity politics only leads us to narrow and symptom-responsive solutions, Táíwò writes, “The problem is that we are still trapped in the room. If we want better politics,…
…limitations and penultimate politics before the sovereignty of God over human politics. This raises questions for our secular prophets, who try to determine trends and visions of things to come…
…politics as contests,” outlining them as follows: Imagine politics as contests over power and rules (over who rules and how, over who rules and by what norms or values, as…
…the scriptures that came before. To be sure, reading the Hebrew Scriptures is not an easy task, regardless of your religious background. The texts encompass a wide range of genres…
…offer Christian progressives a distinctively Christian political contribution that may be of service to the left in this turbulent age. Yoder’s highly influential 1972 book The Politics of Jesus: Vicit…