Wittgenstein’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 ArticleFrom A Liberationist Framework
My point is that in addition to being annoyingly Eurocentric, the discourse of political theology focuses more on administrators and theorists of the modern State than the victims of State.Source
View ArticleAt the End of Liberal Theory
The texts I have identified as “need to become ‘essential’ texts” function in this spirit...Each addresses questions of community-creation outside of liberal norms and modes of power.Source
View ArticleRe-Anarchizing Christianity
For Christians resistance must mean re-anarchizing Christianity, that is, imagining the church as a different kind of political body that transgresses national and racial and class borders in creative...
View ArticlePolitical Theology Is Not Theological Enough (David Newheiser)
The following is the third of a five-part symposium on the question “how theological is political theology”, which took place at the 2016 American Academy of Religion meeting in San Antonio. The first...
View ArticleThe Politics of Abraham’s Foreskin—Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 (Alastair Roberts)
The promise that Abraham will become a great nation is connected with the circumcision of his foreskin, forging a connection between sex and politics. This connection has controversial and unsettling...
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 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 ArticlePolitical 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 ArticleSquaring the Exceptional and the Normative? A Realist Response to Kahn’s...
This book is a timely intervention within current debates about the role of religion, politics, philosophy and the public square. I was reading it as the Western World was once again reflecting (and in...
View ArticleAm I Impossible? A Political Theologian’s Response to Kahn’s Political Theology
A sensible theologian gets used to the marginalization of theology in the mainstream academy. To find a book about the importance of political theology by a legal scholar at Yale is, however, cause for...
View ArticleMaking the People Sovereign
Kahn’s book is intriguing and in many places insightful, conversant in theoretical literature ranging from that of Giorgio Agamben to that of Brian Leiter. I have two worries, one about Kahn’s...
View ArticleTaking Exception: Paul Kahn Rocks the Liberal Boat
In the October 13 issue of the New York Review of Books, Mark Danner published a critique of the Bush administration’s policy on torture, under the title “Our State of Exception”. He didn’t give Carl...
View ArticlePolitical Theology Is Not Theological Enough (David Newheiser)
The following is the third of a five-part symposium on the question “how theological is political theology”, which took place at the 2016 American Academy of Religion meeting in San Antonio. The first...
View ArticleThe Politics of Abraham’s Foreskin—Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
The promise that Abraham will become a great nation is connected with the circumcision of his foreskin, forging a connection between sex and politics. This connection has controversial and unsettling...
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 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 ArticlePolitical 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 ArticleSquaring the Exceptional and the Normative? A Realist Response to Kahn’s...
This book is a timely intervention within current debates about the role of religion, politics, philosophy and the public square. I was reading it as the Western World was once again reflecting (and in...
View ArticleAm I Impossible? A Political Theologian’s Response to Kahn’s Political Theology
A sensible theologian gets used to the marginalization of theology in the mainstream academy. To find a book about the importance of political theology by a legal scholar at Yale is, however, cause for...
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