Brandon
Begg-ing the Question on Christian Politics Christian Reconstruction has taken some underhanded criticism from Michael Horton and the guys at the White Horse Inn radio, and we have responded to them in the past via the Gary DeMar show podcast.
We recently received a real shock, however, when we heard an excerpt of popular preacher Alistair Begg blasting away at Christians for getting involved in politics. His rant—full of wonderful rhetoric—aimed at some vague monster but at least once singled out those Christians who want to “reconstruct” society. His arguments reiterate the same feelings as Horton and gang, but take the rhetoric to an astronomical level.
This article addresses his complaints, and expands upon further podcasts Gary and I did yesterday and today on Begg’s comments. Begg misrepresents Reconstruction, polarizes Christianity and politics as if the two cannot “mix,” and yet, with all of his criticizing he offers no answer at all. The rise of the global imaginary ... - Manfred B. Steger. Thinking with Shakespeare: Political Theology Project: Group Statement. Political theology is a border concept. That is, political theology is the discourse that both inhabits and reflects upon the border between the political and the theological, pursuing the contours, consequences, and costs of their necessary yet impossible relationship.
As an object of study, political theology designates the common sources and affiliations between politics and religion, as well as their antagonisms and internal resistances. As a critical project, political theology names a common ground from which scholars in several disciplines are increasingly critiquing both the secularization thesis of official liberalism and the politicizations of religion that have occurred in response to its impasses. The project of political theology not only takes account of the union or confluence of religion and politics in a cultural continuum, but also maps the more surreptitious modes of contact made between them across their conceptual divide.
Project Members In development. Www.rae.com.pt/Caderno_wb_2010/Benjamin Capitalism-as-Religion.pdf. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Winter, 1999), pp. 247-266.
Senior Thesis. Literature, Language, and Art. Philosophy and Theory. Science and Technology. Plans for 2012.