Requiescat in Pacem.
November 11, 1855. Søren Aaybe Kierkegaard is dead. His last words are, "The bomb explodes and the conflagration follows." The fire still rages. It still rages.
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It is unsurprising that two of my of my favorite political theologians, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Sophie Scholl, were martyred
It is unsurprising that two of my of my favorite political theologians, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Sophie Scholl, were martyred. My Red Virgin, Simone Weil, in her own idiosyncratic solidarity, drove herself into the ground. Only Dorothy Day saw a long life, yet always on the margins. Obviously, my theological politics are an exercise in ever-unrealized
The Fear of Evangelicalism
Yesterday, I finished reading Mark Noll's landmark The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, which begins with the indictment, "The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." Almost twenty years later, this indictment is, for the most part, still valid. And the evangelical Noll, who described himself in
On theological illiteracy
As long as I have been interested in theology, I have been frustrated that many people - whether they consider themselves religious or not - have not thought carefully about theology. By that I mean careful, critical thought about the relationships between humanity and divinity. And with that, to think carefully about what kinds of
The Gods of the Seventeenth Century
A number of years ago, I started reading Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and was struck how little I had really thought about virtue and values, major themes under Nietzsche's attack. I then went to Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. It was a monumental work for me and the point he makes