I knew that my new book, Political Theology, would be controversial. It covers a lot of ground; it produces odd…
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Focus on the funk: An interview with Cornel West
"I would go with Pierre Hadot and say that the love of wisdom is a way of life; that is…
Taking theology seriously
What we need is a bird’s eye view, and that requires taking theology seriously, and considering a longer view of…
The politics of the atonement
To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and…
The Theological and the Political
From Fortress Press, an interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of…
The “great sinner” myth
Confessions re-emerged into floodlit attention in the Romantic era of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, when it was…
What we talk about when we talk about the postsecular
The term "postsecular" is quickly becoming a keyword for scholars of religion and public life. So what is it all…
Putting hell on trial
A long-simmering conflict within U.S. evangelicalism came to the fore recently---a conflict which, as Martin Marty points out, may be…
Culture, nature, and mediation
Matthew Engelke is right: religion is about mediation. Ironically so, because it is about the divine; but because the divine…
Paul and today’s emerging Christianities
My sense is that the most important cross-fertilization between contemporary Pauline scholarship and trends, like the so-called anthropology of Christianity,…