Narrative natures - A dialectical excursus on the (im)mortality of Jesus "God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt." – Robert Jenson, Systematic Theology, Vol 1 (63) Earlier this week we took a look at Žižek's debate with Milbank about the superiority of dialectic to paradox. Žižek argues that the figure of Matthew Stanley • Theology
The pathologies of knowledge, or hard lessons from cutting my teeth on Calvinism Protestant Christianity in America consists of a veritable alphabet soup of denominations, so saying that I grew up in the OPC probably means nothing to you. If it does, lol wow I’m sorry and I probably know you. What if I also told you that my Christian high school Matthew Stanley • Theology
What sort of problem is a human? I was at work on a summer afternoon in 2018 when I received a surprising email. It was the editor from a journal I had forgotten I'd submitted a paper to. I only let that trip me up for a moment though, because he was saying that the Matthew Stanley • Theology
Rembrandt's "Solomon's Idolatry" Idols and Egos: psychoanalysis as a Jewish science The critique of idolatry in Judaism You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. — Exodus 20:4 "The idols of the nations Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
Fenestra Coeli Apertae by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1731) Christianity, Exoteric and Esoteric The esoteric/exoteric distinction The word esoteric possesses a certain mystique to the untrained ear, but has a technical meaning in the study of religions – an esoteric religion is one in which different things are taught to adherents at different levels of the faith. For example, scholars of Buddhism in Matthew Stanley • Theology
