The Republic of Grace, by Charles Matthewes
The Republic of Grace means to offer an extended account of why and how we, Christians and non-Christians alike, must learn to understand ourselves as continually, graciously, coming to be...
View ArticleFaithful Citizenship, by Greg Garrett
Why is it that people who call themselves Christian may find it next to impossible to talk to other people who call themselves Christian? Why is it that people who love this country and are grateful...
View ArticleConfronting the Current Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Toward a Genealogical...
I have been asked by Political Theology to share the content and context for my forthcoming book tentatively title Force of God: Religion, Political Thought, and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. This...
View ArticleMy Thomist Epiphany at a Same-Sex Wedding
Maybe it’s strange to think about political theology at a wedding ceremony. But political theology was on my mind a few years ago, when I attended the wedding of a same-sex couple in my extended...
View ArticleA Brief Primer on Subsidiarity
Now that the election season is over in America, it might be a good time to take a step back and take a longer, more substantive look at some of the principles of Christian social thought than is...
View ArticleProducing Humans
With James Bond tied to a chair, Raoul Silva, the villain in Skyfall, tells a story about rats. Silva’s mother owned an island. Some merchants happened upon the island and released rats from the ship....
View ArticlePiracy, Politics, and Proximate Justice
In likening kingdoms lacking justice to criminal syndicates, Augustine invokes the story of a confrontation between Alexander the Great and a pirate. Indeed, Augustine judges “that was an apt and true...
View ArticleAll Together Now—The Politics of Maundy Thursday
Christ's actions on Maundy Thursday present a challenge to Enlightenment views of property. Through the Eucharistic vision of Christianity, we become more like Christ, and we do so together enveloped...
View ArticleDo 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 ArticleProducing Humans
With James Bond tied to a chair, Raoul Silva, the villain in Skyfall, tells a story about rats. Silva’s mother owned an island. Some merchants happened upon the island and released rats from the ship....
View ArticlePiracy, Politics, and Proximate Justice
In likening kingdoms lacking justice to criminal syndicates, Augustine invokes the story of a confrontation between Alexander the Great and a pirate. Indeed, Augustine judges “that was an apt and true...
View ArticleAll Together Now—The Politics of Maundy Thursday (Elizabeth Stoker)
Christ's actions on Maundy Thursday present a challenge to Enlightenment views of property. Through the Eucharistic vision of Christianity, we become more like Christ, and we do so together enveloped...
View ArticleDo 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...
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