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Swipe Left: A Theology Of Tinder And Digital Dating, Michael Murphy Aug 2015

Swipe Left: A Theology Of Tinder And Digital Dating, Michael Murphy

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The juggernaut of digital culture, which really has hatched the biggest cultural metamorphosis since Gutenberg’s printing press, affects every aspect of late modern life in fundamental ways—ways, moreover, that are often obscured from our perception. After all, the hardest chains to break, the saying goes, are the ones you can’t see.


The Hair: Reflections By A White Parent, Aana Marie Vigen Aug 2015

The Hair: Reflections By A White Parent, Aana Marie Vigen

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Why Teach Theology?, Susan Ross Feb 2015

Why Teach Theology?, Susan Ross

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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What Christians Need No Longer Defend: The Political Stakes Of Considering Antinomianism As Central To The Practice And History Of Theology, Colby Dickinson Feb 2015

What Christians Need No Longer Defend: The Political Stakes Of Considering Antinomianism As Central To The Practice And History Of Theology, Colby Dickinson

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Through a brief history of antinomian thought within the modern period, and the inspection of two contemporary responses to the ‘antinomian impulse’, I refocus the antinomian debate as being, not necessarily a heretical endeavor, but rather a dialectic between history and memory, structure and experience. Rather than portray antinomianism as a threat to the system which needs to be removed, perhaps we can learn to perceive it as a ‘weak messianic force’ moving through all constituted (religious) identities, not, then, as the end of ‘Christianity’ as an organized religion, but its original proclamation, ever in need of greater reformation.


Slavoj Žižek On Jacques Derrida, Or On Derrida’S Search For A Middle Ground Between Marx And Benjamin, And His Finding Žižek Instead, Colby Dickinson Jan 2015

Slavoj Žižek On Jacques Derrida, Or On Derrida’S Search For A Middle Ground Between Marx And Benjamin, And His Finding Žižek Instead, Colby Dickinson

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Critiques of Derrida from contemporary Marxist positions are nothing new, though the nature and force of their argumentation need to be further analyzed in order to conceive of what stake Derrida will continue to have in our understanding of any political (Hegelian) inheritance within the coming decades. In this essay, I seek to advance the conversation between Derrida and his Hegelian-Marxist critics—with Slavoj Žižek’s unique reading of Derrida being here foremost among them—in order to ascertain more precisely the framework of debate on dialectics and deconstruction that continues to define our realms of political representation.


Maurice Blondel: Precursor Of The Second Vatican Council, Peter J. Bernardi Sj Jan 2015

Maurice Blondel: Precursor Of The Second Vatican Council, Peter J. Bernardi Sj

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The ecclesial renewal promoted by the Second Vatican Council would not have been possible without the intrepid labors of Catholic theologians, philosophers, and pastors in the decades preceding the Council. Among these Catholic visionaries, the French Catholic philosopher Maurice Blonde! (1861-1949) rnerits special recognition. He had a decisive impact on ressourcement theologians who helped to draft the conciliar documents. Blondel's influence is especially evident in their critique of conceptual rationalism that marked the pre-conciliar scholastic manuals, in the articulation of a richer understanding of the Church's tradition, and in the Council's teaching of a unitary human destiny. Blondel's thought contributed …