I ended my previous post pointing to a critique of Spirit in its eurochristian derivation. This series of posts has been based on a broader critique of Catherine Keller’s Political Theology of
Category: Political Theology
Amorous Agonism And The Allergy To Difference – Part 2 (Roger Green)
In my previous post, I drew on a longer genealogy of liberalism by Aryeh Botwinick to address Catherine Keller’s recent book, Political Theology of the Earth. Botwinick’s “The Good of Liberalism:
Amorous Agonism And The Allergy To Difference, Part 1 (Roger Green)
This is the first in a multi-part series of posts. In the following series of posts, I want to address some themes related to Catherine Keller’s recent book, Political Theology
On Political Theology And Religious Poetics – A Tribute To Luis León (Roger K. Green)
If politics names the power relations regarding the polis, in their deliberative form, then ‘the political’ names the environment in which those power relations operate. From the outset of Western
“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)
The New Polis is honored to present Dr. Tinker’s follow-up piece to “Redskin, Tanned Hide: A Book of Christian History Bound in the Flayed Skin of an American Indian: The Colonial
The Catastrophe Of Thought – Political Theology, Political Spirituality, And The Courage Of Truth, Part 2 (Michael Dillon)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. There is, however, a difficulty manifest in all thought. It is one that afflicts
The Catastrophe Of Thought – Political Theology, Political Spirituality, And The Courage Of Truth, Part 1 (Michael Dillon)
The following is the first of a two-part series. As this clip from the 7th Edition of The World Economic Forum (Davos) Global Risks Report 2012 illustrates, the event as
Anti-Semitism Old And New – The Pittsburgh Massacre In Today’s “Imperial” Context (Carl Raschke)
The mass murder of 11 Orthodox Jews at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh by a crazed gunman shouting “all Jews must die” was not only one more
Willie Jennings And Palestinian Theologies Of Liberation – Naming The Missing Piece (Katherine Rainger)
Willie James Jennings, author of the award-winning The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, argues that issues of race and the Christian faith are so entangled in American
The Deep Framing By Totality (Roger Green)
A variety of competing descriptions of ‘whiteness’ making up racist retreats to Romantic imaginaries of Anglo-Saxon identity go at least as far back as Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had imagined himself