Political Theology: A Response (Part One: The Disciplinary Divide)
It is certainly interesting to see a reflection of myself in the response of another discipline, even if I sometimes have trouble recognizing that image. Most useful will be for me to address the...
View ArticlePolitical Theology: A Response (Part Two: The Autochthonous State)
In my prior posting, I was concerned with elaborating the disciplinary position from which I take up the project of political theology. It is a part of the secular study of our political practices and...
View ArticleSymposium on Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory: Introduction
As the humanities have rediscovered religion, new sorts of questions are being asked about religion and politics. Religion is no longer imagined as a check box, as the social sciences would like to see...
View ArticleAgamben Symposium: Colby Dickinson
For years now, one of Giorgio Agamben’s major concerns has been the fracture that lies at the heart of modern humanity (i.e. humanity’s sense of sovereignty). This is something he has described in a...
View ArticleConfronting the Current Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Toward a Genealogical...
I have been asked by Political Theology to share the content and context for my forthcoming book tentatively title Force of God: Religion, Political Thought, and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. This...
View ArticleThe Politics of Christ as King (Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14; Revelation 1:4b-8; John...
Increasingly in liturgical circles it is becoming politically incorrect to talk about the “kingship” of Christ. Such a term now brings with it all the baggage of patriarchal interpretations of the...
View ArticleCatholic Social Teaching, State Sovereignty, and International Authority
The debate in the United States over the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities earlier this month brought to the fore the issue of state sovereignty. Since Pope John XXIII's encyclical...
View ArticleBook Preview – Towards a Post-Sovereign Foundational Politics: On Critical...
[Enrique Peruzzotti, Di Tella University, and Martín Plot, California Institute of the Arts, introduce their recently published collection on the work of Andrew Arato, Critical Theory and Democracy:...
View ArticlePolitical Theology and Islamic Studies Symposium: Islamism as Anti-Politics
I want to argue here that the term “political Islam” is in many ways a misnomer, because the Islamism that is meant to instantiate it has been unable to appropriate politics as a way of dealing with...
View ArticleThe Work of Prudential Judgment: Another Perspective on Syria from Catholic...
On Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, Catholics, Christians of other denominations, and women and men of good will observed a day of prayer and fasting in response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, at the...
View Article“Religious Freedom” and the ACA: Campaigning on the Sovereign Exception
Religion is, of course, no stranger to politics in the United States, a fact that becomes all too clear in election season, as incumbents and their challengers hone their rhetoric to appeal to the...
View ArticleThe Politics of Sacrifice—Exodus 12:1-14
In the Passover we find a myth of the foundation of a nation that differs markedly from the contractarian myths of the Western liberal tradition. It disclosure of the sacrificial basis of the political...
View ArticleEvil and Political Theology: William Desmond Introduces PT 16.2 (Pt. II)
I would not shoe-horn the following contributions into the terms of the remarks posted yesterday, yet there is a familial space where kindred concerns find different expression with these authors....
View ArticleQUICK TAKES – If We Raise the Christian Flag Above Old Glory, What Does That...
In a not-so-veiled protest against the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, a pastor in North Carolina decided last week to raise a Christian flag above the American flag. Aside from this...
View ArticleThe Politics of Spectacle—Luke 9:28-36
Spectacle has always played an important role in establishing power, authority, and sovereignty. In the unity of the dazzling body of the Transfiguration and the brutalized body of the crucifixion, the...
View ArticleThe 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 (Roberto Sirvent)
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 ArticleThe Politics of Sacrifice—Exodus 12:1-14 (Alastair Roberts)
In the Passover we find a myth of the foundation of a nation that differs markedly from the contractarian myths of the Western liberal tradition. It disclosure of the sacrificial basis of the political...
View ArticleEvil and Political Theology: William Desmond Introduces PT 16.2 (Pt. II)
I would not shoe-horn the following contributions into the terms of the remarks posted yesterday, yet there is a familial space where kindred concerns find different expression with these authors....
View ArticleQUICK TAKES – If We Raise the Christian Flag Above Old Glory, What Does That...
In a not-so-veiled protest against the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, a pastor in North Carolina decided last week to raise a Christian flag above the American flag. Aside from this...
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