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The Rebirth Of The Death Of God: Radical Theology Politicized, Political Theology Radicalized, And Radical Politics Theologized In The Work Of Clayton Crockett And Jeffrey Robbins, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

This article offers a critical reflection on the mutually resonant recent works of Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey Robbins, both of whom expose “radical the- ology” as insufficiently political, “political theology” as insufficiently radi- cal, and “radical politics” as insufficiently attuned to theology. In light of these shortcomings, they offer a radical political theology as a “necessary supplement” to the project of radical democracy—which is to say a politics of, by, and for “the multitude.” This article tracks the shifting and occasion- ally conflicting contours of this radically democratic theology.