The Politics of Man’s Exaltation—Psalm 8 (Alastair Roberts)
Psalm 8's presentation of human dominion and politics as a creation of God has significant ramifications for our posture towards the various forms of human rule and authority. The juxtaposition of...
View ArticleBooks We Love, Part 3
To help us launch the Political Theology Network, we asked scholars working at the intersection of religion and politics to share five books that inspired them. The “Books We Love” series offers an...
View ArticleForget Schmitt! Political Theology Must Follow Agamben’s “Double Paradigm” of...
The following is the guest editorial for the current issue of the print journal Political Theology (Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2018). It was the German juridical theorist and philosopher Carl...
View ArticleAmazon’s Digital Dominance Threatens Democratic Sovereignty
In embarrassing and politically illuminating fashion, various cities across the United States are promising to fix a litany of chronic civic problems that plague their respective cities—from public...
View ArticlePolitical Theology, Volume 19, Issue 3, May 2018 is now available
Vincent Lloyd on James Cone, Ilsup Ahn on Labor, Immigration and Forgiveness, Silas Morgan on Ideology and liberation, and so much more. Source
View ArticlePolitics and the Sovereignty of God—Jeremiah 1:4–10
God’s prophets are those who call us to recognize our limitations before the sovereignty of God. Indeed, Jeremiah reminds us of the relativity of human politics and that in God alone does the...
View ArticleThe Social Mortgage on National Sovereignty in the Immigration Debate
The prophetic role of the Church here is to crack open and break up this renewed parochial nationalism, and remind all of the words of Paul in Galatians 3:28, that regardless of background, we are all...
View ArticleWittgenstein’s Ladder
...I see my list on political theology functioning like Wittgenstein’s ladder metaphor in his Tractatus. Once graduate students read and grasp these important texts, they should “throw away the...
View ArticleViral Sovereignty
In the face of COVID-19, we do not have the capacity to breathe, much less decide.Source
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