The Liturgical Turn: Worshiping Among The Chaos
Earlier this week, David Gelernter posted a really good article over at Big Questions Online that caught my attention. It did so because I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine, who works as an aerodynamicist for a major NASCAR team, that centered on the relationship of entropy to eschatology. That is, if the world is subject to disorder and decay (Romans 8:20,... Read More
Specters of Rage in an Age of Change – Sloterdijk and the “End” of the Postmodern
Multiple Specters Perhaps we can adapt just one more time Marx's well-known and overadapted opening to The Communist Manifesto that a "specter is stalking" us. It was this same "specter" that Derrida back in the mid-1980s adapted in Specters of Marx to rejuvenate what by then was his already aging project of deconstruction to produce first the "political",... Read More
Do we really get Romans? A little Badiou and Žižek can help.
It's been said that reformations and revolutions in Christianity begin with a re-reading of Romans. That is certainly true of the Protestant Reformation with Luther's epoch-shaking insight into the meaning of the phrase "the righteousness of God." It is true as well of Barth's commentary The Epistle to the Romans, which in the words of a Catholic... Read More
Ecclesiology as a Rival “Ascetic” of Desire
(I have edited this post realising my most of the content was pre-mature, and please forgive any consternation this causes. And apologies where the comments do not align with this truncated version) Within my PhD work I have ben trying to understand how capitalist markets affect Christian identity formation. Within the work of Bernd Wannenwetsch, William Cavanaugh,... Read More
Fundamentalist Inversions: Some Postmodern Variants
I want to put on the table some recent inversions of fundamentalism expressed under the guise of postmodern re-alignments. By fundamentalism I'm referring to the Christian fundamentalism created in the wake of the modernist debates in the US around the 1920 (a fun genealogy is here), not fundamentalism in 'general' if there is such of thing. I want to... Read More
