Here we present the final installment in our little symposium on Graham Ward’s Politics of Discipleship–replaying a discussion of the book that took place at the American Academy of Religion last November. Today we post Graham Ward’s response to Ron Kuipers and Luke Bretherton. Ward, as readers no doubt know, is Professor of Contextual Theology […]
Hands down, my favorite book title of this year is the new volume from the folks at The Other Journal ‘God is Dead’ and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself: Theological Engagements with the New Atheism, edited by Andrew David, Chris Keller, and Jon Stanley (Wipf & Stock, 2010). (The publisher has generously offered a […]
Today I’m glad to post a second response to Graham Ward’s Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens. This reflection comes from Luke Bretherton, a theologian, organizer, and activist who is Senior Lecturer in Theology at King’s College London. Luke is the author of two important books: Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity (Ashgate, […]
15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (ISRLC), at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, England, 23-26 September 2010 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc2329/index.html A panel on “Continental Philosophy of Religion” is to be organized for this conference. The panel invites submissions which consider the turn to religion in recent continental philosophy and the […]
Christopher Benson, who earlier reviewed Rashcke’s GloboChrist in Books & Culture, has just published a comprehensive review of Westphal’s Whose Community? Which Interpretation? in the most recent issue of the Christian Scholar’s Review.
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 Member in […]
Beginning next Monday we’ll host a three-week symposium on Graham Ward’s new book in the Church and Postmodern Culture Series: The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens. The symposium will replay a panel discussion of the book sponsored by the Christian Theological Research Fellowship at the recent meeting of the American Academy of Religion in […]
In this essay, philosopher James K. A. Smith considers the theological implications of free speech in dialogue with Michel Foucault, cinema verité, and the award winning film, BURMA VJ. This essay was given as a lecture at the 2009 Film, Faith, and Justice Forum in Seattle, WA on October 16th, 2009.