Cornerstone seminar

The Cornerstone seminar went really well. The title of my session was “Sacred Anarchy: The Image of God and Political (Dis)Order”. I focused on Wink’s formulation of the Myth of Redemptive Violence, focused on Genesis as subversive to the Myth, and then took a trip through modern political philosophy to demonstrate how the modern state [...]

A postmodern paraphrase of Philippians 2:5-11

The Incarnation is the mad story of the undeconstructible God who did not consider undeconstructibility as something to be grasped, nor did he despise deconstructibility, but rather taking the “human, all too human form” of a servant, he humbled himself to the point of inhabiting the very deconstructible structures of human law and culture—even to [...]

musing about political terminology and misc.

Too often in our reading of the Bible, we make an easy association between words like “liberty”, “justice”, and other words that have political associations in our time, as well as words with other economic and social implications, and the usages of such words in modern liberalized political discourse. This error is often compounded by [...]

What Would Jesus Deconstruct? 2

In the last installment of What Would Jesus Deconstruct? I looked at Caputo’s brief account of Charles Sheldon’s book In His Steps and the question of “What would Jesus do?”. He finished the section by saying the question hinges on the one word, “would”, and the “would” draws us into the realm of hermeneutics. It [...]

What Would Jesus Deconstruct? 1

Before beginning a discussion of the book proper, it’s worth mentioning that What Would Jesus Deconstruct? is the second book in the Church and Postmodern Culture series from Baker Academic. Caputo’s volume comes after James K.A. Smith’s quite helpful and eminently readable (that is, intended for a non-specialist audience) Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, [...]

audio available at Cynicism and Hope site

Audio recordings of several of the sessions from the Cynicism and Hope conference are now available at the conference website, including a recording of my session, “Anarchism, Christianity, and the Prophetic Imagination“. The talk is in MP3 format and can either be downloaded or streamed from the site.
I also highly recommend listening to Ric Hudgens’ [...]

What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (introduction)

The latest entry in the Church and Postmodernism series from Baker Academic Press is What Would Jesus Deconstruct? from noted deconstructionist/philosopher/theologian John D. Caputo, professor of Religion and Humanities and professor of philosophy at Syracuse. I got my copy in the mail today, read the first chapter, and was very nearly blown away. I’m only [...]

some thoughts on truth and religious epistemology

Absolution Revolution has moved! You can read this article at http://absolutionrevolution.com/blog/2007/02/23/some-thoughts-on-truth-and-religious-epistemology/

The Liberating Image: Imago Dei in Genesis 1 by J. Richard Middleton

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another article from Brian Walsh and brief comment

Absolution Revolution has moved! You can read this article at http://absolutionrevolution.com/blog/2006/10/13/another-article-from-brian-walsh-and-brief-comment/

Christian preaching and imagination

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a brief on language and domination

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Nieztsche, the fall, anarcho-primitivism, and human domination

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The Hot Topic Phenomenon

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Tyranny of the present, the progress myth, and Christian eschatology

Absolution Revolution has moved! You can find this post at http://absolutionrevolution.com/blog/2006/08/28/tyranny-of-the-present-the-progress-myth-and-christian-eschatology/