Please check out this this interview by one of our contributors, J. Aaron Simmons. The word “postmodernism” has had an interesting history over the past fifty years. Originally, the term described a style of architecture. The word postmodern has since spread to all aspects of culture. Moreover, it has become a key term in the […]
“My atheism gets on in the churches, all the churches, do you understand that?” –– Jacques Derrida Subverting the Norm — a two-day event that brings together pastors, theologians, philosophers, church practitioners, and researchers in religion — asks a follow-up question:Can postmodern theology live in the churches? As such, we are interested in presentations that explore […]
If you missed it, postmodernism died on September 24th, 2011. Yup. At least if you take the word of Victoria & Albert Museum in London, which opened its “Postmodernism—Style and Subversion 1970-1990” on that day. You can read about it here and here (and find that I shamelessly took their pics!). But if postmodernism is […]
Is faith “a proclamation of fidelity to an infinite ethical demand which enacts a new form of subjectivity” or something more, or something less? One of our guest authors, Katherine Sarah Moody, reviews Simon Critchley’s new book, “The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology” over at the Political Theology blog. Go check it […]
I was downtown talking with people at Occupy Chicago last Monday, and I met a man named Les, who I mistook for the leader of the movement. I’m sure you all know that OWS is leaderless, but I’ve always assumed this is reall just code for Leader-Les, who happened to be a 67 year old […]
CFP: Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion Conference (Link) Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion June 15-16, 2012 Ryerson University Toronto, Canada Confirmed Speakers: John Caputo (Syracuse U.), Bettina Bergo (U. de Montreal), more to be announced in the near future. We invite submissions from scholars and graduate students based in Canada and abroad on […]
This and the following post come from the recent panel discussion hosted by the new Political Theologies Seminar at Marquette University. The seminar is interested in theologies that intersect with contemporary political, social, economic, and cultural life. Participating faculty are Dr. D. Stephen Long and Emeritus Fr. Thomas Hughson and the coordinator is David Horstkoetter. […]
Thanks to all who have participated. Here are the two winners. Name: In The Far Country Meditations on Christianity in a post-secular world. The title is from Barth’s CD, IV/1. Name: From Here Out Theme: All speaking/writing is “from here out”. As Christians the “from here out” is the infinite Word and his body the […]
The universalism debate has been kicked up a bit again, at least in my corner of the ‘interweb’. Responding to Lauren Winner’s essay on Rob Bell in the New York Times Book Review, Jamie Smith questions the “hope” and “imagination” of popular universalists (see also Paul Griffiths response to the same article). Kicking the universalist […]