The Politics of Matthew 21:23-32
Authority is a loaded word. It bespeaks power and control—until it doesn’t. Recently, economic concerns have led some experts to question the authority of the US Dollar as the world reserve currency....
View ArticleIn Defense of Submission and Authority
The original unifying function of liturgy becomes lost if we begin to dehistoricize liturgy by shopping among the traditions. Like consumerist postmodern culture, the Emergent Church shops among...
View ArticleSuperstorms and the Demise of Prudence
The island of Manhattan, it has often been noted, is shaped like the prow of a great ship, proudly pointing into New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean from which so much of its wealth and its people...
View ArticleProper Reverence for Political Authority
In a recent piece about Les Misérables, which is in general a fine study of the dynamics of law and grace in the film, Michael W. Hannon worries that a view of the state, and the political realm more...
View ArticleBook Preview – Towards a Post-Sovereign Foundational Politics: On Critical...
[Enrique Peruzzotti, Di Tella University, and Martín Plot, California Institute of the Arts, introduce their recently published collection on the work of Andrew Arato, Critical Theory and Democracy:...
View ArticleBook Preview: Monastic Wales edited by Janet Burton and Karen Stöber
Medieval religious houses were more than enclosed communities of men or women who spent their lives in prayer and worship, striving for their own salvation and interceding for the salvation of...
View ArticleCFP—Political Community: Authority in the Name of Community
The Center for Citizenship, Civil Society, and the Rule of Law will be hosting a conference at King's College, Aberdeen this coming June 24-27. Here is the text of their CFP: Call for papers - annual...
View ArticleWaldensians, Women, and Preaching as a Political Act
One Sunday around 1173, in Lyons, a wealthy financier named Waldo heard a traveling singer tell the story of St. Alexis, the son of a Roman senator who fled his family, became a beggar, and took to a...
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