Theories of Religion: A Series
I thought it would be a good idea to begin a series on some important developments in the theory of religion since the Enlightenment given that I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading on the subject...
View ArticleTheories of Religion: Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, a late-Enlightenment German philosopher, is most famous for what is known as The Kantian Synthesis which extends through both metaphysics and epistemology. I have made reference to and...
View ArticleWhirring Machines: Capitalism, Christianity, and Subjectivity
“A sum of money is the leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.” This is how Kurt Vonnegut’s fifth novel, God...
View ArticleThe Most Important Thing You Need to Know About Friedrich Schleiermacher’s...
I keep encountering an assumption about liberal theology in general that has really been gnawing at me since I started diving deep into the work of the man who started it all, Friedrich Schleiermacher....
View ArticleA Brief Discourse on Justice
“When justice is divorced from morality, when rights of individuals are separated from right and wrong, the only definition you have left for justice is the right for every individual to do as he...
View ArticleWhy Equal Rights for Same-Sex Couples is not a Question of Morality
In my last post, I wrote about justice, arguing that biblical justice is not a question of morality; rather it is a radical call to deny self in order bring justice to those on the margins, regardless...
View ArticleGatsby and the Resiliency of American Empire
The Great Gatsby opened this week in its fourth film adaptation to very mixed, leaning toward negative reviews. The complaints range from the film being Baz Luhrman’s attempt to do a perfect Baz...
View ArticleThe Theology of Superman: Hope for the Empire
By now, many will have already seen this article or others like it describing the Warner Bros. campaign to get pastors to talk about Man of Steel this past Sunday, which was Fathers’ Day, using a guide...
View ArticleOn Justice Part 2
This is the second part of a series on justice that began quite a while ago here. In that post, I posed this question: Why should it make sense to us to tie justice primarily to punishment when the...
View ArticleA Hiatus
Hello Everyone, Thanks to all who have read the blog over the last few years. I’m going to be taking an indefinite hiatus from posting here at A Church Unbound. I’ve found myself writing more and more...
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