By Adam S. Miller on February 21, 2012 · 1 Comment
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It turns out that life is not a competition. It’s not a test. Or, if life is a test, treating it like a test is one surefire way to fail it.
Philosophy is no contest either. You are welcome to try, but philosophy is a piss-poor way to slay the primal father.
When it comes to doing philosophy, I think Emerson is right when he suggests in Self-Reliance that, “familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we can ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.”
If we have any hope of writing something our children or grandchildren might find worth reading, we must hew to line of our time. We must attend to our questions, to our problems. The fathers’ problems are their own. We will find no redemption in besting or burying them.
The irony, Emerson argues, is that only by addressing the singularity of our own problems will there be any hope of saying something others may find worth repeating. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart... Read More
By Adam S. Miller on February 17, 2012 · 8 Comments
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More or less, I started reading Derrida because of dinosaurs. I was twenty-three. I’d spent two years as the Mormon equivalent of an itinerant monk, celibate, media-less, begging bowl in hand, white shirt yellowing, bike peddles peddling, 24/7. I was pretty serious and I had a lot of questions.
Christianity and postmodernity look like an odd couple at first but, more and more, it seems to me that the seriousness of contemporary, conservative,... Read More
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 out.
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By Chad Lakies on February 3, 2012 · 3 Comments
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A/Theism is an interesting move within the conversation about postmodern theology and the church. An effort by some to overcome onto-theological concerns, you can find it in the writings of the emerging church leader Peter Rollins and in the academic work of John D. Caputo — to name only a couple of thinkers familiar to readers of this blog. Our own series editor, James K. A. Smith, offered a lecture at the University of Ottawa in 2010 entitled... Read More
By Chad Lakies on January 27, 2012 · 1 Comment
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Following is a new CFP that might be of interest to churchandpomo readers:
Andreas Center for Reformed Scholarship and Service
THE CHRISTIAN EVASION OF POPULAR CULTURE
Christianity is often the focus of popular culture, whether it is through the blood and gore of The Passion of the Christ, the satire of South Park and Family Guy, or exposés of Jesus Camp or Religulous. The Christian community tends to respond by either ignoring popular culture or... Read More
