Geoffrey Holsclaw

post-constintinian Cultural Studies Spinning off my last about reinventing my blog I thought I would go back to some of my earlier posts which in a sense set the direction of my continuing investigations of theology and culture. (so this is a reworked former post. but that’s ok no one was reading my blog when […]

I’ve thinking about my purpose for this blog, why I write and why the way I do. I recently came across this from pressthink that summarizes how I think about this blog. Maybe you all can relate. Do you all feel the need to write often, in short bursts, to keep readership up, or to […]

last week I proposed three questions stemming from the comments on my article “A Revolutionary Community :: Repositioning Justification by Faith.” they were: 1) How does the particularity of Jesus ‘break out’ of the capitalist ideology (the Real of Capitalism)? 2) Where does the Church fit along the particular-universal line? 3) What is Love, and […]

check out this attempt to move beyond criticizing Capitalism…I feel like a new pair of shoes. “For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of logo culture, its swoosh an instant symbol of global cool. Today, Phil Knight’s Nike is a fading empire, badly hurt by years of “brand damage” as activists and culture jammers fought […]

thank you all for the comments on the article I posted. a couple of important questions has been raised that I intend to address, and one that I want all of us to address. the questions raised from my article are: 1) How does the particularity of Jesus ‘break out’ of the capitalist ideology (the […]

people and links: this weekend I was in Grand Rapids visiting my wife’s family. While there I was able to have breakfast with James K.A. Smith who teaches at Calvin College and recently published a book (Speech and Theology) with Radical Orthodoxy. I first heard about him through his article at the ooze concerning the […]

now that title might sound a bit pretension, but here’s the scoop. As many of you know i’ve been trying to read beyond my white evangelical theology which currently is leading me through Hispanic America theologians. and here is one of my observations. To put it simply, for postmodern westerners longing for a return to […]

many of you have probably already seen robyn’s recent posts on latin america martyrs, but if you haven’t please do check them out. In postmodern theory, the is much talk about listening to marginal voices, and the discourses of the oppresses, so talk the time. They are a stunning portrayal of what God is doing […]

Daily Life and the Eucharist–So, how does this relate to the proverbial person in the pew? What difference does this have to do with our daily lives? first off, the reason why Milbank’s proposal is appealing to me is that it sees the different images of atonement (ranson, sacrifice, victory) as linguistic metaphors rather than […]

i’ve just changed/added some links to my side bar as well as adding the books i’m going through. check it out.