Geoffrey Holsclaw

Philosophy, Politics, and Critical Theory Philosophy “If the Lord is Risen, why can’t we see Him?” Badiou: Event, Truth, Subject Badiou on Heideggar on Truth Badiou on Truth and the (re)turn of Philosophy Theology’s Conversation Partners: Continental, Analytic, or Beyond? Ricoeur on Levinas: “Self” between the “I” and its overthrow Levinas’ Infinite Trauma Levinas on […]

Post on the Emerging Church “empty signifier vs. the empty shrine”: EC and American Political Discourse. (2) Emerging Church as “Empty Signifier”: Labels don’t fit because the container is Empty (1) Culmination-Culture, not Counter: of temporal refugees Lines of convergence: global-urban-postmodern

Series on Science Fiction, Ideology, and Theological Hermeutics Science Fiction Fridays: Weekly Series Science Fiction Fridays: C.S. Lewis on SciFi Why Star Trek is liberal ideology. SciFi and the Body

Objectivity and Truth: the new war (please forgive my militarist tone: i was sitting in the hot sun on vacationwhen I wrote this: although i’m uncertain about the correlation). below i present the new linking of ‘objectivity’ and ‘truth’ which pragmatist develop against foundationalist. But I think this new link is bad, and that truth […]

Jason Clark has this great post I just came across, on “The past of the Future: Why we live in the now.” Following something he read he argues that we are trapped in the ever present ‘now’, totally losing any sense of past or future. below is my response looking at it from the angle […]

Go over to Dan Kimball’s blog for a warning label for the Bible. It is all too true.

“It’s not about racism, it’s about law and order.”…a response to the immigration marches I read last month. Now of course the true debate around ‘illegal immigrants’ are neither that they are immigrants (concerning racism) nor that they are illegal (law and order). What this is all about really concern economics, not law or ethnicity. […]

So I’ve been gone for the last 2 weeks. Roughly on vacation. Two weeks ago I was in MN with a bunch of other emerging church people. fun times. and last week I was with only my family. Great time. I did some reading and some writing and some brainstorming so hopefully I’ll have some […]

(continuing on…) It goes like this: The priests of the ‘empty shrine’ (like Stout and Laclau) see a religious community making substantive (and theological) claims about itself and politics in general. To the priests this is an attempt at creating a particularist identity without reference to the larger context (the secularizing context), and therefore sectarian. […]

Here is my question, of which I do not have answers, just a feeling. “If the EC has assended to the function of ‘empty signifier’, does that mean it needs to support the politics of the ‘empty shrine’?” My feeling and hope is to answer, NO. But some (perhaps many) in the EC answer, YES. […]