Reinhold Niebuhr’s The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense offers a still relevant perspective on the idealistic and cynical tendencies in US democracy. By Bradley Shingleton
Thelonious Monk’s jazz aesthetic can help us reframe theological thinking, generate new categories, and envision radically inclusive modes of being in the world. By Raymond Carr
A Q&A with Matthew Ichihashi Potts on his latest book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account. By Suzie Greco
In Blood Theology: Seeing Red in Body- and God-Talk, Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. exposes the toxic allure of blood imagery in Christian art, literature, and practices. By Mark D. Jordan
A reading list from Jon D. Levenson’s course.
Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics, by Linn Marie Tonstad, awaits a theology that moves beyond the narrow genres allotted to it. By Mark D. Jordan
Christians sought to rewrite the system of ancient social relations through their own narratives of ritualized embodiment in torture and execution. By Karen L. King
Rabbi Neil Gillman pushed his students to think about theology with more rigor and more imagination. By Daniel Ross Goodman
The rise of the “holy spirit” in medieval Kabbalah marks a dramatic development in the history of Jewish mysticism. By Adam Afterman
For Origen, our souls and bodies are simply our fiery minds in different states, and our goal is transformation. By Charles M. Stang
An excerpt from ‘Religion and the Finality of Christianity.” By Richard Reinhold Niebuhr
Gatsby: The Cinematic Illumination of a Biblical Theology. By Daniel Ross Goodman
Hans Küng’s What I Believe. By Bradley Shingleton
For this contentious thinker, studying religion is an art which involves a community of both practitioners and scholars. By Donald K. Swearer
Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God. By Kathryn Joyce
Why do a Catholic laywomen decide to study theology when there are so many roadblocks and so little institutional support? By Barbara R. Bodengraven
John Polkinghorne’s Quantum Physics and Theology. By Kirk Wegter-McNelly
The two disciplines, split by modernity, need to re-engage. By Louis Dupré
Natural cooperation suggests a ‘bridging’ model between evolutionary biology and philosophical theology. By Sarah Coakley
The life of theological concepts. By Christine Helmer
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