Recovering Democratic Faith
By Jonathon Kahn, Vassar College Who are the fools among us who continue to have faith in democracy and in American democracy in particular? After a desultory three-year period of community organizing...
View ArticleThe Politics of Mark 1:21-28
In an age when nothing is sacred nothing is more difficult to understand than violations of sacred space. Yet that’s precisely what Mark demands of us in his account of Jesus’ first public action, an...
View ArticleOccupying the Big Society – Part One
Amidst the fire and fear of Nazi Germany Dietrich Bonhoeffer articulated the calling of the Church – “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive...
View ArticleSolidarity and Occupy Wall Street: A Tale of Two Movements
The following post is an excerpt from the Guest Editorial of the latest issue of Political Theology. Paraphrasing Galatians 6:2, the Catholic philosopher Józef Tischner explained that solidarity “means...
View ArticleA Conversation with Simon Critchley about “The Faith of the Faithless”
In this interview Simon Critchley discusses his new book, "The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology," with Dave True of Political Theology. Along the way Critchley touches on an...
View ArticleGreed is Not Good: The Politics of 2 Samuel 12:1-7
While the abuses of power and privilege in modern banking may not be as explicit as David’s crime, they are parallel. People in power tend not to consider the cost of their self-interest in communal...
View ArticleThe Thatcher Legacy
The Thatcher Legacy and contemporary politics There is something very odd about the way that “the Thatcher legacy” is currently being portrayed in the UK press and seems to be accepted by the country...
View ArticleForgive Them Their Debts
It’s become something of a commonplace among commentators and critics on both ends of the political spectrum to declare the death of the Occupy movement, whose campaigns against social and economic...
View ArticlePolitical Theology or Social Ethics?: Under the Law (M.T. Dávila)
Justice fails where civil law and order are privileged over peoples’ ability to determine their destiny by confronting affronts to their dignity by legitimate powers. Let me offer two examples. I...
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