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Ending Christian Hegemony: Jean-Luc Nancy And The Ends Of Eurocentric Thought, Colby Dickinson Dec 2021

Ending Christian Hegemony: Jean-Luc Nancy And The Ends Of Eurocentric Thought, Colby Dickinson

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay addresses Jean-Luc Nancy’s “deconstruction of Christianity” and how what Christianity proclaims through enacting a deconstruction of itself brings an end to the western, hegemonic hold that Christian imperialism has perpetuated for centuries. Nancy, for his part, takes up the name of Christianity insofar as it is a religious phenomenon that signals a trajectory of thought in the West that must be discerned as providing an “exit from religion and of the expansion of the atheist world.” Since deconstructing the dominant narratives of the West means deconstructing the myth of a sovereign, autonomous deity whose reign, Nancy declares, has …


Multiple Entries In The Encyclopedia Of Christianity In The United States, Daniel Rhodes Nov 2016

Multiple Entries In The Encyclopedia Of Christianity In The United States, Daniel Rhodes

Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

List of Entries Authored by Daniel P Rhodes in the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States: 1).Orestes Augustus Brownson 2). Christian Community Development Association 3). Frank William Stringfellow 4). Marcus Garvey 5). Open Doors (Mission Organization) 6). World Gospel Mission 7). Henry Lyman Morehouse


A Christian Letter From The Michigan Collection, James G. Keenan Jan 1988

A Christian Letter From The Michigan Collection, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The papyrus edited below, P.Mich. inv. 3999, was purchased for the University of Michigan in 1925. It belongs to lot IV of the Nahman papyri, all of which come from Oxyrhynchus. The papyrus measures (roughly) 12 cm. (width) by 25 cm. (height). Margins are small at top (0.8 cm.) and (until line 19) at left (0.5 cm., discounting the vertical strip whose partial remains appear opposite lines 8-13). The prayer (lines 20-24) below the letter's body is indented at the left ca. 2.5 cm. inward from the mu of mhd°no!, the first word in line 19 (therefore ca. 3.0 cm. …