November 2011
10 posts
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Emerging Evangelicals
I’ve just ordered James Bielo’s Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity (New York University Press, 2011). I’ve read his article, “The Emerging Church in America: Notes on the Interaction of Christianities,” Religion vol.39, no.3 (2009), pp.219-232, which had some really interesting stuff on the anthropology of Christianity. So...
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“…immanence means ethos: it is a way of thinking and dwelling, not a...”
– Philip Goodchild on Gilles Deleuze. In his chapter, “Thinking and Life: On Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise,” for the collection I’m editing with Steve Shakespeare, Intensities: Philosophy, Religion and the Affirmation of Life, forthcoming with Ashgate 2012.
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“Prayer is not the private property of the failful but a common passion, indeed,...”
– John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006), p.18.
I’ve been thinking about this quotation, about praying and weeping, hoping and sighing, in relation to the criticism that the Occupy Movement lacks concrete...
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“I do not take the name of God to pick out an entity, as in realism, or an...”
– John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006), pp.123-124.
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To Join or Not to Join Peter Rollins'... →
Peter Bannister’s reflections on Peter Rollins’ Insurrection: To Believe is Human; To Doubt, Divine.
He concludes that, ’without the transformational work of the Spirit in the believing community, Rollins’ laudable social programme based on an embrace of the Cross is [un]realizable.’
I would agree that there is a critically important link between Good Friday, Easter...
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Jason Clark and Pete Rollins on the Resurrection
Over the past few days, I’ve been mulling over Jason Clark’s review of Pete Rollins’ Insurrection: To Believe is Human; To Doubt, Divine.
In his piece for The Church and Postmodernism Book Symposium, Jason writes,
Pete’s real focus strikes me as a philosophical reading of the nature of God, and the experience of faith within that. Whilst Pete signposts his work with...
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Slavoj Zizek on Occupy Movement (audio link) →
Slavoj Zizek speaking on Smiley and West.
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The Occupy Movement and Christian Piracy
Kester Brewin has written a couple of great posts reflecting on the occupy movement in relation to his ongoing work on Christian piracy:
“Mutiny! Why St Paul’s is the perfect place for ‘Occupy’ Protests” and
“Don’t Blame Bankers: What Alternatives are ‘Occupy’ Proposing“
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Abandoning Funding Bid
Having spent yesterday writing my Expression of Interest for the University of Nottingham’s Advance Research Fellowship Scheme, I’m abandoning this funding bid after advice from the department I had hoped would support my application. I was told that the key criteria they are looking for are:
a steller track record at the world’s top universities;
a considerable list of...
