Do Hipsters Make Good Disciples? Political Theology in the Coffee-House...
...Instead of treating contemporary consumerism as a wholly negative phenomenon, Augustine suggests we look at the issue differently. The behaviour of the shopper or spiritual tourist is the way it is...
View ArticleEvil and Political Theology: William Desmond Introduces PT 16.2 (Pt. I)
William Desmond (Institute of Philosophy, KU-Leuven, and Department of Philosophy, Villanova University) introduces the latest issue of Political Theology (guest-edited by Péter Losonczi), which is...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of the Serpent and the Harmlessness of the Dove (Jeremy Sabella)
Niebuhr’s choice of title for The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (CLCD) is something of an outlier. The titles for his other major works follow a straightforward formula: they...
View ArticleThe Art Of Political Theology – Finding The Right Definition And The Proper...
As I near completion of my doctoral study in political theology, I find myself reflecting on the difficulty of defining my area of inquiry. Many doctoral students dread the incessant, yet inevitable,...
View ArticlePolitical Theology, Justice, And The State – New Addition To PTT Syllabus...
Political Theology Today has added another item to its syllabus project. The most recent posts of syllabi for the project are from 2015 and 2014. The following syllabus is for the course Political...
View ArticleCounter-Reformation Orthodoxy And Francisco Suárez’ Expansive View Of Female...
The following article is the third of a special symposium on the legacy of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in the month of its quincentennial. The first article can be found here, the second...
View ArticleRaising Up Niebuhrian Prophets In The Public Square – Responses To Robin...
The following are responses by Scott Paith and Daniel A. Morris to the article “Reinhold Niebuhr And The Shortage Of Prophets Nowadays” published in Political Theology Today the previous week. A...
View ArticleLove and Violence in Augustine and Arendt
How can community be grounded, if neither in force nor in love? To find out, we must reckon with Arendt’s reading of Augustine, for whom love and force were intimately intertwined. Source
View ArticleBrethertonian Thinking
According to Luke Bretherton, theologians, in forgetting that prophetic critique presumes eschatological affirmation, have yet to understand what the work of theology comes to.Source
View ArticleThe Author’s Response
Situated on this eschatological middle ground, political theology must reckon with how we live in a time when the kingdom of God is present, creating moments of transformation and rupture...To speak...
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