Am I Impossible? A Political Theologian’s Response to Kahn’s Political Theology
A sensible theologian gets used to the marginalization of theology in the mainstream academy. To find a book about the importance of political theology by a legal scholar at Yale is, however, cause for...
View ArticlePuncturing Progressive Myths: Response to Brad Littlejohn
Brad Littlejohn’s blog entry here last week would raise significant difficulties for the thesis of my book The Myth of Religious Violence if 1) the argument of that book is that modernity is more...
View ArticleOn Being Thankful: A Rejoinder to Brad Littlejohn’s Rejoinder
Thanks again to Brad Littlejohn for his clarifications, and for the opportunity to further clarify my own thoughts. It is always helpful to get this kind of feedback, to see where my readers and I...
View ArticleThe Blurred Line Between Law and Violence (William T. Cavanaugh)
A bishop recently said that 90% of the homilies he has ever heard can be boiled down to two words: “Try harder.” Of all the things that Ted Smith’s book does well, the most compelling for me is his...
View ArticleMaking America Feel Better (William T. Cavanaugh)
When the Senate issued its report on CIA torture in December of 2014, the House Intelligence Committee chairman—Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan—questioned the wisdom of releasing the report,...
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