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Let’s stop playing “World View Wii”– confronting the crisis of our own...
In the past few months I have started to ponder what increasingly strikes me as an emergent crisis of our own discourse as postmodern thinkers. What I have to say is probably going to offend a lot of...
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Crystal L. Downing. Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2012. Crystal Downing offers an entertaining and anecdotally...
View ArticleThe exception rules, or why postmodern theology needs to think the impossible
A number of years ago when I was a department chair I asked a certain administrator at my institution why he had not followed the rules in granting certain privileges to a certain faculty member that...
View ArticleThe Strangest of All Things Pomo – the Resurrection!
I’ve been reading two books of late that would seem to bear little relationship to each other, but actually do in a revolutionary and quite profound manner. The first is by New Testament scholar N.T....
View Article“Outlaw justice”– was Paul really a political theologian?
The standard average Christian evangelical, or Reformed, reading of Paul makes him into a huckster of cheap grace. How many times have you heard a sermon on Romans, or a Christian song on the radio, or...
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Critical Theology for an Age of Global Crisis
Until the shocks to the world system in the past decade following the turn of the millennium – e.g., the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, the global financial collapse of 2008 – the...
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The New Hegelian Moment – Why Postmodernism Needs to Retrace its Own...
Hegel is to philosophy what the economist Joseph Schumpeter was to the concept of capitalism. He embodies the historical inexorability of what the latter termed “creative destruction.” Very few...
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There is No Such Thing as “Church”…Just Us In Faithful Relation To Each Other
As some kind of Christian most, if not all, of my life I have always taken for granted – even if at times “taking” it also meant wanting to “leave” it – something called the church. The very title of...
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“There Are No Jobs”– Common Fallacies and Facts About Getting an Academic Job...
The study of religion, though far younger than many of its counterparts in the humanities, is now an established and well-recognized academic field. The American Academy of Religion(AAR), its flagship...
View ArticleTheology’s Identity in an Age of Global Crisis: An Interview with Carl Raschke
Few thinkers in the contemporary academy have spanned such a breadth of subject matter as Carl Raschke, professor of religious studies at the University of Denver. Well into his fourth decade of...
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