Political Theology Today
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A forum for interdisciplinary and interreligious dialogue. The blog for the journal Political Theology, commenting on the intersection between religion, politics and culture.
Political Theology Today
4d ago
Jesus doesn’t ban sitting or reclining in public. He encourages it, supports it, and even participates in it.
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Political Theology Today
1w ago
There is no single, correct mode of embodiment. For those who regard themselves as part of the body of Jesus, part of the family that grows from Jesus’s body, that one body is really many bodies, complicated bodies, with hands, blood, some foreskins, and a whole lot of multi-colored flesh.
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Political Theology Today
2w ago
In terms of Dorothy's theology, I think that there is an inclination now where they want to write about piety. They don't want to write about “Don't pay your war taxes."
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Political Theology Today
2w ago
Paying attention to Herod’s fears about Jesus can keep us from depoliticizing the gospel.
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Political Theology Today
2w ago
Is tranquility possible in an era of political emergency?
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Political Theology Today
3w ago
By disrupting pernicious claims to transcendence, atheist political theologies can help us redress suffering in particular places while keeping hope for radical transformation.
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Political Theology Today
3w ago
The political theology emerging from this narrative calls for a redefinition of authority and leadership. It emphasises qualities like service, compassion, and the capacity to heal and liberate over traditional markers of power like wealth, status, or lineage.
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Political Theology Today
3w ago
Youth were not very welcome on the table. It was quite common for them to be referred to and accept that they are leaders of tomorrow or the next generation… How can we be the next generation when we're already here [right now]?
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Political Theology Today
1M ago
Imagine a world in which we stop at every news of death. Imagine a world in which we do not trivialize or rationalize death. ... Have we over-theologized life after death?
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Political Theology Today
1M ago
For Marx, religion is more than "the opium of the people,” it is the mirror of society turned upside down. This essay examines Marx’s critique of religion as well as his critique of other contemporary critiques of religion. This critique of religion became the starting point of his critique of political theology and, later, political economy.
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