Tag Archives: POLITICAL THEOLOGY

Occupy Movement: Christians have mixed reactions

This quote from a UMC pastor re: Occupy in Christianity Today has me thinking about the scale of church responses to Occupy:  At bottom,  is outright rejection and demonization (ala Fox and The Tea Party),  2)  condescension expressed in comments like  ” irrelevant” and “naive” 3) total ignoring 4) Skepticism about it’s ultimate effectiveness 5)  Hopefulness about it but dampened Continue Reading

Occupy Wall St. – Žižek’s Act or Badiou’s Event? #occupytheology

From The Church and PostModern Culture.  Excellent. Badiou calls these eruptions ‘events’, an event (in this case a political event) is the revealing or acknowledging of something within the situation that had not been previously represented by the state, and not only not represented by also repressed by the state.  In this way, an event disrupts the smooth functioning of Continue Reading