Not only an instrument of power or a one-sided constraint on its use, the rule of law is also a…
Rule of law as imperial theology
theology
Telling a story of death and its disclosures
When shared in the frame of solidarity, our stories reveal the matrices of power that require unmaking; they also provide…
Law, love, phenomenology: Levinas between Lyotard and Marion
In the 1990s, Dominique Janicaud denounced authors such as Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion for engineering a "theological turn" in…
Being mother/being God
In Jewish theology, an aura of heresy still clings to the metaphor of God as mother.
Must a female God mother?
As we seek to reimagine God, I am not sure that the corrective to the damage that has been done…
Encounters on shifting ground
Part of the tragedy is that, although some of the underlying abuse took place decades ago, efforts at comprehensive accounts,…
Refashioning gender and modern visual theology
The visual and material repertoire of Heavenly Bodies has also been fundamentally shaped by the role of allegory in Catholic…
A liturgy of the soul
Reading and responding to Knot of the Soul deeply signifies a longstanding dialogue with my friend and interlocutor Stefania Pandolfo.…
Bringing fathers more fully into view
Christian theology has seemingly forgotten the Father’s ironic relationship with the Son, lost sight of the Father’s worry and concern…
Questioning territory: A Jewish reflection on holy land*
Thinking of territory as a patrie, a motherland or homeland, makes use of metaphors that hope to capture a primal…