October 1, 2015 / Perspective
Reggie Williams’s Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus is a timely work for both Bonhoeffer studies and theological engagement in general.
Zachary Thomas Settle
October 1, 2015 / Perspective
October 1, 2015 / Perspective
Perspective
The Perspective section offers reviews of selected publications and informed opinions on current events or issues.
Scott Schomburg
September 17, 2015 / Perspective
September 17, 2015 / Perspective
Marilynne Robinson’s novels have become almost synonymous with loneliness, but solitude here remains entangled with a less acknowledged trope—an enveloping and dazzling darkness.
Hollis Phelps
September 2, 2015 / Perspective
September 2, 2015 / Perspective
This essay draws on Judith Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure to discuss the relationship between queerness and children.
Silas Morgan
August 26, 2015 / Perspective
August 26, 2015 / Perspective
The best – or perhaps only – way for theology to be itself is to fail.
Julian Forth
August 19, 2015 / Perspective
August 19, 2015 / Perspective
According to Julian Forth, feminist queer negativity helps us rethink salvation in the martyrdom of Perpetua.
Bo Eberle
August 12, 2015 / Perspective
August 12, 2015 / Perspective
While Halberstam’s articulation of the concept of “queer forgetfulness” is rich and widely applicable, we may not want to be too quick to assume that forgetfulness can function as a normative concept. In respect to economically marginalized groups, such as African Americans in the United States, forgetting and forming the new kinds of queer kinship bonds Halberstam speaks about may simply be impossible. Within certain minority groups family bonds and the memory of the past may well be necessary for survival and act as the material through which creative transformation of the past emerges.
Brandy Daniels
August 5, 2015 / Perspective
August 5, 2015 / Perspective
In this essay Brandy Daniels explores how a queer embrace of failure is generative for Christian virtue ethical frameworks; and argues that failure, through its critical skepticism of the notion of stable and normative paths towards clear ideals, provides a counter-framework for a theological anthropology that acknowledges and affirms creaturely existence and engenders a liberative ethics grounded in risk-taking and inclusion.
Karen Bray
July 29, 2015 / Perspective
July 29, 2015 / Perspective
By reading the book of Jonah along with Jack Halberstam’s Queer Art of Failure this piece asks what questions a political theology written from the side and through the affects of failures might pose and face.
Hollis Phelps & Silas Morgan
July 29, 2015 / Perspective
July 29, 2015 / Perspective
At critical moments in the history of Christianity, it is the outsiders, rather than people …