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
3d ago
Liberation, caught between queer nihilism and eschatological certainty, must seek an third way beyond the binary of hopefulness and hopelessness through the negation of both. It must transpose itself into an apophatic register as the experience of continual failure, an uncertain endless becoming, that might be called simple hope.
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Political Theology Today
1w ago
Mutual knowing is not a given in relationships...
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Political Theology Today
1w ago
What if Liberation itself must be liberated? Or maybe, like the nonperson and the nonbeing, it has always been breathed into by the breath of white violence.
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Political Theology Today
1w ago
The Politics of Atheism Symposium sheds light on atheism’s emancipatory force. With a commitment to immanence, atheism can provide a counterweight to the pervasive appeals to God or other transcendent ideas used to legitimate systems of domination.
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Political Theology Today
2w ago
Access to the sacrament of the Eucharist has been weaponized against all those the church deems unworthy, immoral, or in sin. The sacrament that was meant to be a way of knowing and encountering the risen Christ through breaking and sharing of bread has been made into its opposite.
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Political Theology Today
2w ago
If we are to hope for anything beyond the end of hope, it is in the incommunicable and incommensurable nature that is the moan.
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Political Theology Today
3w ago
The journal Political Theology will host an event on “Palestine and Political Theology” April 4 at 2pm eastern.
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Political Theology Today
3w ago
The unity embodied in this psalm is idealistic, imaginative, and radical, embodying fluidity. It disrupts the exclusivist notion of nationalism common in its contemporary literature and embraces unity, which is symbolized as inherently good and pleasant.
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Political Theology Today
3w ago
Fifty years after the publication of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s A Theology of Liberation, what, if any, relevance does Christian liberation theology and Gutiérrez’s work have for our present moment? Do we still have a memory of a liberating God? And if not, is there a liberative power in grappling with the absence of this memory?
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