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 […]
In this essay, David Kline and Dan Rhodes discuss how Christianity can learn from the Tea Party, while at the same time showing how the language of cliché not only distracts us from the real political issues we face but also creates an ersatz sense of certainty that can make us unintentional participants in evil and violence.
Go ahead, just fill in the blank: ________ for Jesus. I’ve seen Karate for Jesus, Surfing For Jesus, Punk Rockers for Jesus, Dumpster-Diving for Jesus (props!), Homeschooling for Jesus, Killing Osama Bin Laden for Jesus (He says, “Thanks for listening to me, assholes.”), CEO’s for Jesus, Riot Grrrls for Jesus (that’s not true, but I […]