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Category: Philosophy and theology
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Deleuze, atheism, and belief in God. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the third in a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). It comes at the end of a section on Nietzsche’s idea of eternal return, and it discusses what “belief in God” could mean from
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COVID-19 reading list: Let’s read Albert Camus’s La Peste (The Plague) together
In view of the COVID-19 information, misinformation and toilet roll hysteria currently gripping the world, over coming weeks I will be channelling my quarantine curiosity into re-reading Albert Camus’s La Peste (The Plague), a story of an epidemic sweeping through the Algerian city of Oran. The novel examines the way in which living in an epidemic
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Why Deleuze’s philosophy fits its historical and cultural moment. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the second of a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). It argues why Deleuze’s thought was appropriate for its historical and cultural moment, and offers some reflections on how to engage with a body
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Video talk on Foucault, sexuality and the Bible
Here is a recording of a lunchtime talk I gave at Biola University in February 2020. I discuss the later Foucault, specifically the first volume of his History of Sexuality, and bring it into conversation with biblical notions of identity and alterity. For further reflections on Foucault and the Bible you might want to check
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Four reasons why Christians should bother with Deleuze. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the first of a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). It comes from the first section of the Introduction, in which I give four reasons why Christians should pay attention to Deleuze’s thought, and
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Bible and culture 4: The Multiperspectival Bible
The transcultural nature of the Bible (see the previous post in this series) is reflected and instantiated in the biblical documents themselves in at least four ways. Each of these ways shows how the Bible crosses multiple perspectives in a way that neither homogenises them into undifferentiated unity nor fragments them into irreconcilable incoherence. First
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Video talk: Thinking Through Redemption
How does the incarnation provide a fresh way of looking at some of the most divisive political and social divisions of our age? What are its implications for the dignity of matter, history and the human body? Why is the Christian “grace narrative” a subversive force undercutting the drivers of social fracture and division? This
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Video talk: Thinking Through Sin and Judgment
What is sin? What are the implications of the Bible’s presentation of sin for cultural production, politics, art and society? What is the asymmetry of good and evil, and why does it matter? How does it ground democracy and equality? This talk considers how Genesis 3 and 11 provide tools of cultural critique, and shows
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Video talk: Thinking Through Creation
How does the fact that God is both absolute and personal shape a Christian view of reality and culture? How does the biblical truth that human beings are made in the image of God help Christians to avoid two opposite dangers in relation to human identity? How does God’s command to Adam and Eve to
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Video talk: Introduction to Thinking Through the Bible
This is the first in a series of four talks exploring how the biblical turning points of creation, fall and redemption can 1) shape fresh and faithful interventions into some of the most important social, cultural, political and intellectual debates of our day, and 2) help Christian students to understand and engage with their academic
