Tag: Theology
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Violence 3: We, The Violent
So far, in these meditations on violence, I’ve not actually defined the word. We probably imagine a violent act to be one done intentionally, likely by a person with power who willfully injures or destroys one with less power. How much more specific can we be? Consider whether violence can ever be just. Is a…
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Is God A Platitude?
I experienced the last chapter of Aleksandar Hemom’s memoir like a punch to the gut. Or, more accurately, like preparing in slow motion for a fist that finally and devastatingly makes contact. I finished the book and walked around the living room shaking my head, sighing loudly, trying unsuccessfully to find my breath. The Book of My Lives is a…
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“The will to power and of possession has become limitless.”
The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of his needs alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away. We have begun a throw away culture.…
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“…Chrapitalism: the lucrative merger of Christianity and capitalism…”
Don’t expect any breadth or grandeur from the Empire’s Christian divines. Across the board, the imperial chaplains exhibit the most obsequious deference to the Plutocracy, providing imprimaturs and singing hallelujahs for the civil religion of Chrapitalism: the lucrative merger of Christianity and capitalism, America’s most enduring covenant theology. It’s the core of “American exceptionalism,” the…
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“…dismantling whiteness and following the Jewish Jesus…”
The task of prophetic theology today includes dismantling whiteness and following the Jewish Jesus who is leading an intercultural movement of love and justice. While the colonial imagination viewed white Europeans as God’s elect in the New World, the Scriptures repudiate this hierarchical racial logic and ground Christian identity in the election of the Jews. Israel, understood as the…
David W. Swanson 