Doing Theology in the Age of Trump

Description

This book is a work of theological resistance. It is not so much about the presidency of Donald Trump as it is about what his popularity and rise to power reveal about the state of Christianity and the moral character of the evangelical Right in the United States today. More specifically, it is about the threat of white Christian nationalism, which is the particular form that the nationalist populist movement of Trumpism has adopted for itself. The contributors are all fellows from the Westar Institute's academic seminar on God and the Human Future, and include many of the leading figures in theology and Continental philosophy of religion. This volume provides a form of theopolitical resistance based on intersectionality. The authors recognize how the various forms of oppression interrelate to contribute to a vast, dynamic, and seeming impenetrable network of systemic injustice and marginalization. These essays demonstrate that politics need not be played as a zero-sum game with a winner-take-all mentality, and that a critical theology is as urgently needed and as relevant now as ever.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianity
• Nationalism
• Theology
• Christianity and politics
• Political science of religion
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Political Ideologies
• Christian Theology

Informations

• Publié par: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Date de parution: 08 novembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9781532608889
• Langue: English

Extrait

Doing Theology in the Age of Trump
A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism
edited by Jeffrey W. Robbins and Clayton Crockett

DOING THEOLOGY IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism
Westar Seminar on God and the Human Future
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paperback isbn: 978-1-53 26-0886-5
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Cataloging-in-Publication data:
Names: Robbins, Jeffrey W., editor. | Crockett, Clayton, editor.
Title: Doing theology in the age of Trump : a critical report on Christian nationalism / edited by Jeffrey W. Robbins and Clayton Crockett.
Description: Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018. | Weststar Seminar on God and the Human Future.| Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: ISBN: 978-1-5 326-0886-5 (paperback). | ISBN: 978-1-532 6-0887-2 (hardcover). | ISBN: 978-1-5326- 0888-9 (ebook).
Subjects: LCSH: Trump, Donald, 1946 —Influence. | Nationalism—Religious aspects—Christianity. | Religious right—United States—History— 21 st century. | Christianity and politics—United States—History— 21 st century.
Classification: BR 516 D64 2018 (print). | BR 516 D64 (epub).
Manufactured in the U.S.A. January 7, 2019

Table of Contents Title Page Contributors Introduction Part 1: History, Race, and Christian Nationalism in America Chapter 1: Is God a Christian Nationalist? Chapter 2: A War of Aggression Chapter 3: This Is How We Talk Here, and If You Don’t Like It, Leave Chapter 4: Donald Trump and the Privilege of Outrage Chapter 5: The White Christian Nationalist Hustle Chapter 6: Ungrounded Innocence Chapter 7: Christian Kingship and the Empire’s New Clothes Chapter 8: Theological Resistance to U.S. Christian Nationalism Part 2: American Exceptionalism, Evangelicalism, and Trumpism Chapter 9: The Time of America Chapter 10: Trump: The Apotheosis of American Exceptionalism Chapter 11: Foxangelicals, Political Theology, and Friends Chapter 12: White Evangelicals, American Ethnonationalism, and Prospects for Change Chapter 13: Trumpism Is a State of Affairs Chapter 14: Donald Trump, Republican Beloved Chapter 15: Taking Advantage: Trumpism, Postmodernity, and Christianity Chapter 16: Eternal Scar of the Fictive Mind Bibliography



Westar Seminar on God and the Human Future
The Westar Seminar on God and the Human Future stays true to Westar’s dual mission of ( 1 ) conducting collaborative, cumulative research in the academic study of religion, and ( 2 ) promoting religious literacy in public discourse. The Seminar on God and the Human Future emerges from the academic fields of Philosophy of Religion, Critical Theory, and Radical Theology. The Seminar seeks to reimagine the concept of God and the value of religion in the 21 st century. All publications arising from the Seminar that are placed in this series aim to invoke dialogue and participation in the task of addressing critical issues in religion today.


Contributors
Joe Bessler is the Robert Travis Peake Professor of Theology at Phillips Theological Seminary. Author of A Scandalous Jesus: H ow Three Historic Quests Changed Theology for the Better , he is currently at work on a project, tentatively titled Moving Words: How Theology Proposes to Lead beyond God .
Karen Bray is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy, and the chair of Religious Studies and Philosophy, at Wesleyan College. Her research areas include continental philosophy of religion; feminist, critical disability, black studies, queer, political, and decolonial theories and theologies; and secularism and the postsecular. She is particularly interested in exploring how secular institutions and cultures behave theologically.
Sarah Morice Brubaker is Associate Professor of Theology at Phillips Theological Seminary, the program unit chair for the Liberal Theologies Group of the American Academy of Religion, and a Westar Institute fellow. Her book,  The Place of the Spirit , was published in 2013 by Wipf and Stock.
John D. Caputo , the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus (Syracuse University) and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus (Villanova University) is a constructive theologian who works in the area of radical theology. His most recent work includes Truth  (2013),  The Folly of God  (2015), and  Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information  (2018). Keith Putt edited  A Caputo Reader  (2018), a collection of his work from the early 1970s to the present. His  A Radical Theology of the Cross will be forthcoming in 2019, and a second edition of  On Religion in the fall of 2018.
Clayton Crockett is Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of Radical Political Theology and Derrida after the End of Writing , among other books. He is an editor, along with Creston Davis, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Slavoj Žižek, of the book series “Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture.”
David Galston is the Executive Director of the Westar Institute and the Ecumenical Chaplain at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, where he is also an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy. A Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and a United Church minister, David has led many workshops across Canada and the United States on the question of the historical Jesus, the future of Christianity, and the problems of Christian theology in light of the historical Jesus. He is the author of God’s Human Future (2016),  Embracing the Human Jesus (2012), and  Archives and the Event of God  (2011).
James Howard Hill Jr. is a PhD student in the areas of Religious Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Hill works in the areas of Black studies, cultural studies, critical religious studies, performance studies, and theology.
Michael S. Hogue is Professor of Theology, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at Meadville Lombard Theological School (Chicago). He is the author, most recently, of  American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World  (Insurrections, 2018). His teaching and scholarship explore the intersections among religion, politics, and the environment.
Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. Books she has authored include From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self ; Apocalypse Now & Then; God & Power; Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming; On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process; Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; and Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Possibility.  Her most recent book is Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public .
Rev. Dr. Robin R. Meyers is senior minister of Mayflower Congregational UCC church of Oklahoma City and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma City University. His most recent book is Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance , and forthcoming: Falling Off the Ceiling: The Death of Michelangelo’s God and the Rebirth of Wonder .
Daniel Miller is Associate Professor of Religion and Social Thought in the Department of Liberal Studies at Landmark College. His research focuses on the intersections of political theory, religion, and secularism. His first book was  The Myth of Normative Secularism: Religion and Politics in the Democratic Homeworld (2016).
Jordan E. Miller  is a community organizer, interdisciplinary teacher, and scholar who specializes in religion, social movements, and resistance studies. His first monograph,  Resisting Theology, Furious Hope , includes chapters on The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), Occupy Wall Street, and #BlackLivesMatter. He is the editor of  The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology  with Christopher D. Rodkey.
Hollis Phelps is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies at Mercer University. He is the author of Alain Badiou: Between Theology and Anti-Theology and co-editor (with Philip Goodchild) of Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Žižek. His current research focuses on the theological, moral, social, political, and economic valences of debt.
Alan Jay Richard  is an independent scholar and religious organizer associated with Realistic Living, a nonprofit organization located in rural north Texas with the mission of encouraging new forms of religious life. As part of this effort, he serves on the board of the local environmental nonprofit Citizens United for Resources and Environment, organizes resistance to corporate environmental devastation in rural sacrifice zones, participates in local and regional direct action efforts, and lectures on topics related to politics, religious change, and inter-religious dialogue. His current scholarly interests include political ecclesiology and the religious aspects of American popular culture.
Jeffrey W. Robbins is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Lebanon