György Geréby on the Political Theology of Carl Schmitt
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György Geréby is Associate professor in the Medieval Studies Department at the Central European University, Budapest and Vienna. He is Historian of Medieval and Late Antique philosophy and theology, with a research interest in methodology in medieval philosophy and theology, theory of language and proof, and its applicability to conceptual analysis. He has an additional interest in early Christianity and the apocrypha, and political theology. In this episode we discuss his article titled, "The Theology of Carl Schmitt," published in Politeja 18 (2021).
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Adi Ophir on Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
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Adi Ophir is a visiting professor affiliated with the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Middle East Studies. At the Cogut Institute, he directs the initiative. He is also Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. His current research focuses on political concepts as events, performances, and discursive apparatuses, with special attention to three concepts: “concept,” “political,” and “the Other.” He studies types of Others in general, and the structure and genealogy of one type of Other in particular–the Goy, the Jew’s Other. He is the founding editor of...
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Siphiwe Dube on Black African Neo/Pentecostal Political Subjectivity
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Siphiwe Ignatius Dube is Senior Lecturer and former Head in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is an author of numerous interdisciplinary articles and chapters (and has also supervised) on a range of topics covering African politics and religion, feminisms, post-colonial literature, race, religion and masculinities, religion and identity politics, religion and popular culture, and transitional justice. He is a United World College (Atlantic College) alumnus, recipient of the Prince of Wales Scholarship, the Don Norton Award, the NRF-DST...
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Miguel Vatter on Atheism, Post-secularism and the Legitimacy of Democracy
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Miguel Vatter is Professor in Political Science at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University. He has published extensively on political theology. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, his most recent books are Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt ( 2021) and Divine Democracy: Political Theology After Carl Schmitt (2020). A complete list of publications is found here: In this episode we discuss his book chapter titled, "Atheism, Post-secularism and the Legitimacy of Democracy" published in Political Theology Today: 100 Years after Carl...
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Erica Weiss on Jewish Israeli Emergent Political Theologies of Peace
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Erica Weiss is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. She is a cultural anthropologist researching the ways people navigate the ethical dilemmas they encounter during their everyday lives and with people who are different than themselves. She does her research in Israel and Palestine, using ethnographic methods. In this episode we discuss her article titled, "Divergent and Emergent Political Theologies of Peace Amongst Jewish Israelis," published in Political Theology in March 2024.
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Jennifer Rust on Foucault and Pastoral Power
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Jennifer Rust is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of English at Saint Louis University. Her research interests include Early modern English literature, Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance prose fiction, Catholic writing in the English Reformation, political theology, religious studies, critical theory, gender and sovereignty. Her book is titled, The Body in Mystery: the Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014. In this episode we discuss two of her recent articles: ...
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Mary Hirschfeld on a Theological Perspective on Economic Inequality
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Mary L. Hirschfeld is John T. Ryan Jr. Associate Professor of Theology and Business Ethics and Academic Director of the Business Ethics and Society Program at the University of Notre Dame. She works on the boundaries between theology and economics using an approach rooted in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. She has written on economic inequality, the technocratic paradigm, the financial crisis and the common good. Her book is titled, Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy (Harvard University Press, 2018). In this episode we discuss her article...
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Luke Bretherton on Political Theology and The Case for Democracy
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Luke Bretherton is Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Research Professor of Moral and Political Theology and senior fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Before joining the Duke faculty in 2012, he was reader in Theology & Politics and convener of the Faith & Public Policy Forum at King's College London. His latest book is Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (Eerdmans, 2019). His other books include Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge University Press,...
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Lee Ward on Political Theology and Constitutionalism
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Lee Ward is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He has published widely in the areas of Political Theory and American Political Thought. His books include The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America (Cambridge University Press, 2004), John Locke and Modern Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau and Jefferson (Palgrave McMillan, 2014) and Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of...
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Steve Knepper on William Desmond's Aesthetics
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Steve Knepper is an associate professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. His main areas of expertise are philosophy and literature, aesthetics, and American literature. He is the author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond, which was published in 2022 by SUNY Press and will soon be re-released as a paperback, and he is currently editing A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible. His essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in several journals.
info_outlineJohn D. Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University.
He is a hybrid philosopher/theologian who treats "sacred" texts as a poetics of the human condition, or as a "theo-poetics," a poetics of the event harbored in the name of God. His past books have attempted to persuade us that hermeneutics goes all the way down (Radical Hermeneutics), that Derrida is a thinker to be reckoned with by theology (The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida), and that theology is best served by getting over its love affair with power and authority and embracing what Caputo calls, following St. Paul, The Weakness of God. He has also addressed wider-than-academic audiences in On Religion and What Would Jesus Deconstruct? and has an interest in interacting with the working church groups like ikon and the “Emergent” Church. He is currently working in a book on our frail and mortal flesh, probably to be entitled The Fate of All Flesh: A Theology of the Event, II.
Professor Caputo specializes in continental philosophy of religion, working on approaches to religion and theology in the light of contemporary phenomenology, hermeneutics and deconstruction, and also the presence in continental philosophy of radical religious and theological motifs. He has special interests in the "religion without religion" of Jacques Derrida; the "theological turn" taken in recent French phenomenology (Jean-Luc Marion and others); the critique of onto-theology; the question of post-modernism as "post-secularism;" the dialogue of contemporary philosophy with St. Augustine; the recent interest shown by philosophers in St. Paul; the link between Kierkegaard and deconstruction; Heidegger's early theological writings on Paul and Augustine; "secular" and "death of God" theology (Altizer, Vattimo, Zizek); medieval metaphysics and mysticism.
For a complete list of his publications please follow the link to his academic website: https://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/caputo-john-d/
In this interview we discuss his article titled, “The Theopoetic Reduction: Suspending the Supernatural Signified,” published in Literature and Theology, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2019, pages 248–254.