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
Frederick Douglass on the Economics of Human Stock and “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
The following post comes from Cynthia Nielsen who is a PhD candidate at the University of Dallas and blogs at percaritatem.com. By the shedding of whose blood have we become one of the wealthiest nations in the world? To begin an answer, why not turn to one whose back bore many a bloody lash for the sake of the so-called “American dream.” In his 1852 oration,... 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
Response to “Some Provisional These” on Kingdom-World-Church
I want to continue the conversation (really just questioning) begun by James K.A. Smith between an ecclesiocentric view of mission and the "apocalyptic theology" of Halden, Kerr, and Siggelkow. (James commented on the Preamble). Really, I'm not offering a defense of an ecclesiocentric understanding of mission, but offering critical questions springing from... Read More
Symposium: The Politics of Discipleship – Part 1
Today we begin our three-part symposium on Graham Ward's new book, The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens. Because our contributions for this symposium are longer than some of our other chapter-by-chapter symposiums, I'm making the papers available as pdfs, with a little teaser below. Our first contribution is from Ronald Kuipers, Senior... Read More
