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What Is A Socialist Civil Society? (Roland Boer)

Many assume that “civil society” is a neutral term, meaning the realm of human activity outside the state and outside the economy. However, the term is far from neutral. We need to remind ourselves...

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Speeches of Two Women Frame Pope Francis’ Visit to the US-Mexico Border...

The following are translations of speeches given by two women – Daisy Flores Gámez and Evelia Quintana Molina – in Juarez during the Pope’s visit in February 2016. Although the Pope’s speech at the...

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Herbert Marcuse And The Endurance Of The 1960s For Political Theology (Roger...

There is no doubt that the cultural memory of the 1960s, not matter how mythically constructed to support the left or the right, in both their softer and harder forms, remains significant today. Part...

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Today’s Politics Bear Strange Resemblance To The 1850s (Martin Katchen)

Observers looking for historic parallels between our time and bygone eras in United States history may have to go all the way back to the 1850s. In that decade the dominant party (which was the...

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Today’s Political Theological Vortex – Neither A God Nor Digital Networking...

As I sit in a coffeeshop during a brief break between summer and fall semesters, I am reflecting on the status of my university job and work in the midst of a tumultuous political world. I read...

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The Making Of Abstract Humanity – How The Invention Of Money Propelled...

As part of our research for a book called Time of Troubles, Christina Petterson and I have been developing an approach to understanding slavery. It is predicated on the Roman legal invention of...

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What Is The New “Nomos of the Earth”? Reflections on the Later Schmitt (Carl...

German jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt, who coined the term “political theology”, is best known for his seminal works in the 1920s that dealt with such familiar concepts as sovereignty, the “state...

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“Resurrection Day”, Or Turning The World Upside Down (Carl Raschke)

The day the Christian world calls Easter Sunday is just about over.  But if we seek to the larger and still undeciphered significance of why we celebrate Easter, we have to set aside in our minds many...

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“Delegated Divine Rule”– On Hobbes And The Origins Of Political Theology...

What follows is a perambulation of the political theology of Hobbes on display in his magnum opus Leviathan. This is a self-conscious exercise in anachronism. Suffice to say, Hobbes was not aware that...

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Not Light but Fire

In a white supremacist culture, one crucial precondition of any true and faithful theological speech is repentance. True theology is not light but fire. Source

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