Genealogy, Memory, and the Danger in Political Theology
This guest post by David Horstkoetter and the previous post come from the recent panel discussion hosted by the new Political Theologies Seminar at Marquette University. The seminar is interested in...
View ArticleHunger and Love – The “Logic of Late Capitalism” Unwinds into the Postmodern...
It’s another gray and misty morning here in the second district of Vienna. The church bells toll to invite the sleepy-eyed revelers from the night before to churches that, except for Christmas...
View ArticleWe Are Still Them: Non-Denominationalism and the Hermeneutics of Silence
By: J. Aaron Simmons – Department of Philosophy – Furman University – aaron.simmons@furman.edu I. I was raised in the American evangelical subculture and have recently been part of several different...
View ArticleAgamben and the revival of a global political theology – from an economy of...
“Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected,” proclaimed Jonathan Edwards. It probably seems quite strange to open what can be described as a brief meditation on political theology and...
View ArticleThe Relevance of Philosophy of Religion to Religious Studies: Of Gaps and...
By: J. Aaron Simmons (Department of Philosophy, Furman University), www.furman.edu/philosophy/simmons In 1996, William J. Wainwright edited a book entitled God, Philosophy, and Academic Culture: A...
View ArticleThe exception rules, or why postmodern theology needs to think the impossible
A number of years ago when I was a department chair I asked a certain administrator at my institution why he had not followed the rules in granting certain privileges to a certain faculty member that...
View ArticleExtended Review and some Possibilities for James K. A. Smith. Imagining the...
Introduction Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. –P.J. O’Rourke As I read and re-read Jamie Smith, P.J. O’Rourke’s quote seems rather apposite to my...
View Article“Outlaw justice”– was Paul really a political theologian?
The standard average Christian evangelical, or Reformed, reading of Paul makes him into a huckster of cheap grace. How many times have you heard a sermon on Romans, or a Christian song on the radio, or...
View ArticleOn Conversation without Conversion: Reflections on Church Practice and...
Though I think a lot about church practice, I don’t write much on it. My writing, for better or worse, tends to be very intentionally philosophical and offered in the aim of inviting a broader...
View ArticleThere is No Such Thing as “Church”…Just Us In Faithful Relation To Each Other
As some kind of Christian most, if not all, of my life I have always taken for granted – even if at times “taking” it also meant wanting to “leave” it – something called the church. The very title of...
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