authority

Taylor Ross finds himself at a loss for words in the house of Bonhoeffer.

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew humbles herself in a search for Marilynne Robinson’s creative authority.

Hilary Jerome Scarsella suggests epistemological resources to help Christians craft better responses to people with testimonies of sexual assault.

Steven G. Ogden writes about the seduction of power.

Rebecca Shirley discusses the complexities of faithful embodiment, advocating for the deeper stories that must be told.

The historical investigations of H.-J. Sieben show that when early Christian authors such as Athanasius insist that church councils be “received,” they do not mean to introduce a democratic style of Church governance but to insist that Christ’s authority, transmitted through tradition, be acknowledged by hierarchy and laity alike.

News from The Guardian on filmmaker Asad Qureshi who worked on [i]Empire of the Sun[/i] and Willow[/i], and who recently co-directed the film The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl: A British documentary film-maker has gone missing after setting out to interview Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area. Two former senior […]

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.

In this wide-ranging interview, Jeffrey Stout discusses themes from his 2004 book DEMOCRACY AND TRADITION, including such topics as religion, democracy, secularism, piety, and the intellectual orientation he, following Stanley Cavell, calls “Emersonian Perfectionism.”