History Has Its Eyes on You
Charles A. Gillespie finds dramatic clues to make our time together meaningful in dialogue with Hans Urs von Balthasar and theater.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Saving von Balthasar’s Conversation with Barth: A Review of Saving Karl Barth
Stephen Long’s Saving Karl Barth demonstrates how theological friendship might begin to heal a five-hundred-year division in the church.
Always Historicize! On Fredric Jameson, the Tea Party, and Theological Pragmatics
Theodor Adorno, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Slavoj Žižek: What do these thinkers have in common? First, they are all Marxists.1 Second, they have all received significant attention in the theological community; each of these theorists, for example, has been the subject of a full-length volume in Continuum’s exciting Philosophy […]
Evil, the New Atheism, and the God of the Trinity
Von Balthasar’s theology of the Trinity provides a compelling framework in which Christians can engage the problem of evil, including its recent formulations by the New Atheism.
My Body for You: Meditations on Sacrifice as a Theme in Contemporary Art
In this essay, Bruce Herman reflects upon the relationships between sacrifice and beauty in his own paintings and in contemporary art.