Theology without walls: the transreligious imperative

Thinking about ultimate reality is becoming increasingly transreligious. This transreligious turn follows inevitably from the discovery of divine truths in multiple traditions. Global communications bring the full range of religious ideas and practices to anyone with access to the internet. Moreover, the growth of the nones and those who describe themselves as spiritual but not religious create…

Empirische Analyse sozialer Probleme

Arbeitslosigkeit, Drogenmissbrauch, Obdachlosigkeit, familiäre Gewalt, Umweltzerstörung, Onlinesucht usw. Keine dieser kollektiven Notlagen – sei sie für die Betroffenen auch noch so bedrückend – erlangt von ‚sich aus‘ öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit und politische Anerkennung. Vielen durchaus kritisierbaren Lebenslagen gelingt dies erst spät oder überhaupt nicht. Warum dies so ist un…

The Puppet and the Dwarf; The Perverse Core of Christianity

Salah satu intelektual kita yang paling berani menawarkan interpretasi Lacanian tentang agama, menemukan bahwa Kekristenan awal adalah kolektif revolusioner pertama. Slavoj Zizek telah disebut sebagai "bintang rock akademis" dan "manusia liar teori"; tulisannya memadukan pengetahuan yang mencengangkan dan referensi ke budaya pop untuk membedah kesalehan intelektual saat ini. Dalam The Puppet an…

The Pathfinder

Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution upstate New York. An old friend, Sergeant Dunham of the 55th Regiment of Foot, asks him to guide his daughter through the wilderness to the fort at Oswego where Dunham serves. With the …

The Name of Samuel and The Stem

Generally the writer contents himself with a single reference to the interpretation of a person's name given in the account of his birth, but in the case of Samuel, as in that of Isaac, he dwells upon the interpretation with an emphasis which is unmistakable and which is clearly intentional.2 It is not surprising, in view of the difficulties involved in the first chapter of Samuel where the bir…

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Studies of Christianity, or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers : a serie…

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The practice of Christian perfection volume 2

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Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land

An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide. In Milk and Honey, Tamar Novick writes a revolutionary environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Palestine/Israel. Focusing on animals and the …

Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations

Among Jean-Jacques Rousseau's chief preoccupations was the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. A person with divided loyalties (i.e., to both himself and his cohorts) was, in Rousseau's thinking, a divided person. According to John Warner's Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations, not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, he believed it was fundamentally uns…