Political Theology, An Encounter in History: A Further Response to Paul...
In my post last Friday, I briefly summarized Paul J. Griffiths’ address to the recent Catholic Theological Society of America convention outlining the proper method for Catholic theology and what he...
View ArticleSpeculation to Advocacy: Reducing Carbon Pollution
In his Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas distinguishes between two facets of human intellect: “speculative intellect which directs what it apprehends, not to operation, but to the consideration of...
View ArticleHow the First World War Helped Give Rise to Political Theology – Ramón Luzárraga
Centennial commemorations of the First World War began last June 28 with the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand von Hapsburg and his pregnant wife, Sophie, the Duchess of...
View ArticlePolitical Theology or Social Ethics?: One Conversation, Two Tasks (Ted Smith)
The Ethics section of the American Academy of Religion has organized an important panel investigating the question "Which is it – Political Theology or Social Ethics? And Does It Matter?" at next...
View ArticlePolitical Theology or Social Ethics?: Towards The Democratic (Keri Day)
Within Christian traditions, one may be met with this provocative question: does “political theology” or “social ethics” sponsor liberative practices oriented towards human flourishing? Interestingly,...
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...
View ArticleThe Middle East and the Unintended Consequences of Our “Willful Ignorance”
The words that may turn out over time to have many of the same ominous undertones as Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time” was uttered this past week by Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the...
View ArticleA New Way of Being Green – Why Pope Francis’ Encyclical Is Not Ultimately...
Most whose impression from reading the media – and that unfortunately is most people - of what Pope Francis actually said in his recent, controversial encyclical Laudato Si, subtitled “Care for Our...
View ArticleForgive Us Of Our Debts, But Not When It Comes to the Greeks
The total capitulation last week of the once defiant Syriza government in Greece to the EU loan sharks has been compared in the press to the reverse engineering of the David and Goliath story. But a...
View ArticleOccluded Resources For Political Theology – Leveraging Gender, Sexuality, and...
The following is the second of a pair of roundtable commentaries on the state of political theology today. The first by Ted Smith was published by PTT on September 16, 2016. These commentaries...
View ArticlePolitical Theology Needs Its Own “Pivot To Asia” (Kwok Pui-Lan)
This essay first appeared as part of an announcement for the print journal Political Theology in July, 2016. It is reprinted here because of its timeliness. The original posting can be found here....
View ArticleChristian Political Theology Needs To Grow Up And Become A Real Discipline...
Contemporary Christian political theology presents a rather confusing picture. A cacophony of voices offers conflicting accounts of what the Bible says about politics and what a normative Christian...
View ArticleWhy Exactly Does Political Theology Need To Become A “Real Discipline”? – A...
The following is a lengthy response to Jonathan Coles’ article entitled “Christian Political Theology Needs To Grow Up And Become A Real Discipline” published on Oct. 5. Jonathan Cole’s recent post...
View ArticleAnnouncement – Political Theology Vol. 17, Issue 6 Is Now Available
The latest edition of the print journal Political Theology (Vol, 17, No. 6) is now available at the following URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ypot20/17/6. The terms for access to specific...
View ArticleWhat Political Theology Could Be (Vincent Lloyd and David True)
The following is the regular editorial for the latest issue (Vol. 17, No. 6) of the print journal Political Theology. Political Theology Today is the online extension of the journal. What is political...
View ArticleSeeking Contributions and Contributors To POLITICAL THEOLOGY TODAY
Political Theology Today is seeking regular contributors, as well as occasional articles, addressing a variety of both timely and more “timeless” subject matter. Topics in which we are especially...
View ArticleYou Are Invited To Political Theology Bash At The AAR Meeting in San Antonio
YOU ARE MOST CORDIALLY INVITED! For the third year in a row now, the journal Political Theology and its online counterpart Political Theology Today are having a party in conjunction with the American...
View ArticleHow “Theological” Is Political Theology? Special Session At American Academy...
The editors of Political Theology and Political Theology Today extend an invitation to join us in a special session on the degree to which political theology is actually “theological”. The session...
View ArticlePolitical Theology And Debt – Confronting The Capitalist Machine (Roger Green)
A few years ago, a collection of papers by major thinkers in Christian political theology appeared under the title Political Theology: Contemporary Challenges and Future Directions. In the collection...
View Article“Thank You Lord Jesus For President Trump”– Apostolic Theology And The...
With the carcass of conventional political wisdom quietly rotting on the garbage heap of history following the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, political analysis finds itself in a state...
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