Geoffrey Holsclaw
Those brought forcibly to America for slavery are now forcibly carried away through imprisonment. Colorblind Racism Two weeks ago I talked about how in my journey of sanctification I seem to be really working only on two or so deeply ingrained sins that seem to keep popping up in different ways. Just when I think […]
I think that much of theology works with the assumptions expressed by Matt Damon’s character in “The Good Shepherd” (about the CIA). When asked about what “you people have?” he answers, “We have America. The rest of you are just visiting.” (FYI, racial slurs in the dialogue) (My thoughts below). I think many pop theologians […]
I often hear that in Pentecost the curse of Babel is reversed. But this is not true. Babel is overcome, but not reversed. The idea that Babel is reversed goes something like this. Because humanity, in its pride, sought to raise themselves to God’s level, God confused them with multiple languages and they were scattered. […]
“The church in its profoundest expression is the gathering of a people who are able to sustain one another through the inevitable tragedies of our lives. They are able to do so beause they have been formed by a narrative, constantly reenacted through the sharing of a meal, that claims nothing less than that God […]
It seems there was a bit of confusion and concern about proposing communal discernment. And that’s OK, it is a difficult thing to understand and from what I can tell it is even less often practiced. On top of all of this are the countless instances of spiritual abuse, if not outright physical and sexual […]
WARNING: PHILOSOPHICAL POST (So I just cut this section from the intro to my dissertation so I thought I would post it here.) Political Theology and Political Philosophy Mark Lilla makes a rough distinction between political philosophy and political theology that will set the stage for our consideration of political theology.[1] For Lilla, all political […]
Some have asked about my reading of Augustine’s political thought in recent scholarship. Below are two foundational interpretations that have guided much recent investigations. This is from the beginning of the 6th chapter of my dissertation. Reading City of God through book 19 As with central ideas of Augustine, and Hegel before that, […]
Last week I was in LA at the Wesleyan Philsophical Society. I presented a paper on “Christ in Circulation: The Eucharist and Money.” The abstract is below and then after the break is the paper. If you are interested then you should definitely also check out Jason A. Coker’s post on a similar topic: The […]