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d. stephen long- Two Augustinianisms: Augustinian Realism and the Other City. Faculty and Student presentation at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. notes by geoff holsclaw (as lecture notes there are gaps and paraphrasing) — Introduction: Theology and politics can be related in two fashions. There are the ‘political theologies’ where what concerns ‘the political’ is known […]

I just got Beyond Universal Reason: The Relation Between Religion and Ethics in the Work of Stanley Hauerwas by Emmanuel Katongole, a Catholic philosopher from Uganda. It is part of the reading for my Language and Theology class. It enters into the claims of whether, following Wittgenstein, language games (and ethics/politics) are universally approachable or […]

now as i’ve said, i’m in this class on theology and language where we will be reading through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, among other texts. What about Lacan? Well, here is the direction of my thinking concerning the linguistic turn for a couple of years. After studying philosophy in undergrad and entering into seminary life (and […]

, and why RO undercuts supposed contrasts b/w liberals and conservatives: “In the introductive essay to the collective volume entitled Radical Orthodoxy, the three editors of the volume, J. Milbank, C. Pickstock, G. Ward, observe that “the great Christian critics of the Enlightenment (…) in different ways saw that what secularity had most ruined and […]

“We can see the harsh dilemma of a would-be contemporary theology: [1] The theologian begins from orthodoxy, but the orthodoxy which has been learnt from Kierkegaard and Barth becomes too easily a closed circle, in which believer speaks only to believer, in which all human content is concealed. [2] Turning aside from this arid in-group […]

Archbishop Martinez on the ‘battle’ for power: “And this is my main reason to distrust the urge that so many feel nowadays in certain countries (this is the case in Spain) of bringing the Church as Church into the political arena to fight propositions that utterly offend the Christian understanding of human life (the so-called […]

I just found this and think it’s great. It is from the same Archbishop who recently called together a larger group of western theologian who he thought are the only hope for theology.(thanks to john wright and ericisrad for the link)

I just read this very interesting apprasial of hauerwas and milbank and social action by steve bush : A Stereoscopic Evangelical Political Theology: Between Hauerwas and Constantine (pdf) over at generousorthodoxy. first of all, I am very excited that emerging theologians are dealing with haurwas, milbank, stout and others so that we might be able […]

is the content messed up now?

Well, the summer has come and gone and here I am moving forward a bit at a time. Concerning my academic interest (because that’s what I write about here), I’m sitting in on a class with Steven Long at Garrett. The class is Speaking of God: Theology and Language. It will be a chance to […]