Category Archives: Summa Theologiae et Politicae
Which Political Theology? Understanding the Deep Structure of Ripening Being
There is no more pressing question for humanity in the present period than that of the failure of the revolutions which began in the Enlightenment to make good on their promise of liberation. Liberalism, which promised to all the freedom … Continue reading
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Tagged Agamben, analogy of being, Badiou, equivocity, political theology, Schmitt, social ontology, univocity, Zizek
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Dark Liberation
When interest in political theology began to emerge on the Christian Left and Center Left in the 1960s, those engaging the discipline were at pains to distinguish not just their specific theological positions but their entire set of questions and … Continue reading
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Tagged Agamben, Fascism, Heidegger, Marx, NAZISM, political theology, Schmitt, Zizek
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Theology Has Escaped
Theology has, it appears, escaped. What was once a respectable, architectonic, but also tightly regulated discipline which exercised its office in an almost hidden manner, her charms accessible only to the most discerning, and her relationships mediated and her conversations … Continue reading
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Tagged Agamben, Baidou, Heidegger, Heisenberg, hermeneutic ontology, political theology, Raschke, Zizek
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Against Capital: The Current Crisis and the Crisis in Theory
This is the first installment of what I expect will be a very long-running serialization of my Summa Theologiae et Politicae: Against Capital. This will be my major systematic work and, over the course of what will likely be several volumes … Continue reading
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