Financial derivatives are credited with bringing to the fore a number of sociological and metaphysical problems for modernity, from the instantiation of particular modalities of risk to the destabilization of referentiality in knowledge-claims about the world. This essay argues that derivatives can take on the particular power they hold in such accounts only through a repression of their mathem...

If much has been written of the forms of bodiliness reinforced by hospitals, less attention has been paid to the medicalization of the soul. The medical management of death institutionalizes divisions between body and soul, and matter and spirit, infusing end-of-life care with latent Christian theological presumptions. The invisibility of these presumptions is partly sustained by projecting rel...

This article argues that Russell McCutcheon’s notion of the religion scholar as a critic is crucial for envisioning a distinct relevance to the academic study of religion in multidisciplinary conversations concerning questions of religion and conflict. However, McCutcheon’s critical approach is insufficient for thinking about transforming conflicts and underlying structures of injustice. To act...

Since the publication of The Church of the Triune God (the Cyprus Statement)1 in late 2006, the International Commission for Anglican – Orthodox Theological Dialogue (ICAOTD) has focussed on developing an agreed statement on theological anthropology. As the work of the Commission is unfinished, with planned continuation of the discussion for at least the next two meetings in 2012 and 2013, the ...

Using published theological and scholarly evidence, this article disrupts the stereotypical "born gay"/"sinful choice" dichotomy widely assumed to characterize religious views of homosexuality in the United States. It argues that we need to keep moral questions separate from questions about the fixity or fluidity of sexual orientation. Rather than two, American Christian and Jewish views of hom...

cosmo-theological argument is one of the theological arguments for [proving] the existence of god, which has been mooted since long ago and has recently been recognized in the theo-philosophical tradition of the west and become famous as theological argument. while examining the viewpoints related to the appearance of the world, particularly the big bang theory, this article undertakes to analy...