Slavoj Zizek has been hinting at a book on Hegel for forever now. It seems like it about to happen. From Zizek’s new Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadows of Dialectical Materialism : “You know what Einstein did in his relativity theory? He started with curved space as the effect of matter. So, let [...]

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from Richard Kearney’s Anatheism: ‎”God is revealed après coup, in the wake of the encounter, in the trace of his passing.” (p. 22) “…interconfessional hospitality toward other faiths is not just an option for Christians but an imperative.  Christian caritas, as a refusal of exclusivist power, is a summons to endless kenosis.” (p. 55) “the [...]

I’m beginning to read through material for an upcoming class on American fundamentalism taught by George Marsden, who is the guru on this topic. I used some of his work in a previous study on fundamentalism, and I’m pretty excited to further wrap my mind around this phenomenon. One of our class texts is The [...]

My reading group is about to dive into Richard Kearney’s Anatheism: Returning to God After God. Amazon’s blurb: Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties [...]

I recently read through Carl Schmitt’s 1922 book Political Theology and wanted to return to Clayton Crockett’s work, Radical Political Theology, which heavily interacts with Schmitt. Schmitt’s Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty begins with the line, “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.” He develops the idea that that the [...]

The Hombrewed Christianity podcast just released an interview with Dr. Clatyon Crockett, and you should listen to it!  Crockett is a professor at my alma mater with whom I’ve been in contact ever since a group of us at Fuller began reading his book Interstices of the Sublime, an exploration of psychoanalytic theory and theology. [...]

I’m part of a reading group at Fuller that has previously worked through Clayton Crockett’s Interstices of the Sublime and Gianni Vattimo’s After Christianity. We are currently working through Catherine Keller’s The Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. It’s been a challenging read for me. She has a fascinating writing style that borders [...]

I’ve been looking forward to this book, having followed Peter Rollins‘s work ever since I first read How (Not) to Speak of God four years ago. I had been reading Derrida’s Force of Law when a friend recommended Rollins to me, and I quickly gained an admiration for Rollins as the most philosophically astute writer [...]

(apologies to Bell and Chan et al) If you only ever read one book on Hell, it should be David Powys’ Hell: A Hard Look at a Hard Question. Powys exhaustively researched doctoral dissertation-turned-book examines the history of the belief in hell in Jewish and Christian thought. Hell doesn’t get very many mentions in the [...]