Announcement – Political Theology Today Now Has Facebook Discussion Group
The editors at PTT announce the creation of a new open discussion group for those who would like to talk about important issues of the day relating to the topic of political theology in general,...
View ArticleToday’s Political Theological Vortex – Neither A God Nor Digital Networking...
As I sit in a coffeeshop during a brief break between summer and fall semesters, I am reflecting on the status of my university job and work in the midst of a tumultuous political world. I read...
View ArticlePolitics In and Out of the Classroom (Lorraine Cuddeback)
I have been preparing for my first semester of teaching over the past few weeks, tackling the large topic of an “Introduction to Moral Theology” for about thirty undergraduates. Though I am excited to...
View ArticleThe Catholic Social Ethic of Mother Teresa (Matthew Shadle)
It may seem strange to speak of Mother Teresa having a social ethic. We usually think of social ethics as including, although by no means being limited to, questions of politics, but the recently...
View ArticleWhy Exactly Does Political Theology Need To Become A “Real Discipline”? – A...
The following is a lengthy response to Jonathan Coles’ article entitled “Christian Political Theology Needs To Grow Up And Become A Real Discipline” published on Oct. 5. Jonathan Cole’s recent post...
View ArticleThe Bad News For Election Day? Someone Will Be Elected President (Carl Raschke)
Here’s some good news and bad news. The good news is that Chicago Cubs last week won the world series after 108 years. The bad news? By the end of today either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is...
View ArticlePolitics May Be Local, But Outrage Is Universal (Mark Douglas)
The following is one of a series of articles under a general symposium title of “Being Church in the Age of Trump,” which will appear in hard copy in January as part of the fall/winter edition of the...
View ArticleComplicating Love with Kendrick Lamar & Cardi B
If we are to attend to, much less celebrate, the difference between the who and the what – as we hope to do in our work – then love may be more trouble than its worth.Source
View ArticleProphetic Politics: an introduction
Could prophetic politics, with its unique emphases, allow us to envision another, possibly less dogmatic and more differentiated form of political theology? Could focusing on the schism between...
View ArticlePolitical Leaders and Moral Intelligence
One cannot be politically smart, but willfully wicked. For the leader and for the voter who would be tied to the Scriptures, “smart” is a moral term.Source
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