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Reexamining the Shaky Theology That Gives Humans ‘Dominion’ Over All Creation

By Timothy Beal

…f “natural resources”? The fact that, after each stage of creation, God declares that it is all “good,” in and of itself, without reference to humans, already suggests otherwise. Not once does God say “The humans are going to love this! I can’t wait to see what they do with it.” Indeed, God also blesses other living creatures before humankind is even created. Concerning the sea creatures and birds, “God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multi…

The No-Selfie Doctrine: A Theological New Year’s Resolution

By Richard Amesbury

…ey say one of the main things about religious ecstasy is a feeling of selflessness—that you yourself disappear. I feel that when I read Dostoyevsky.” I am less familiar with religious ecstasy than I am with the dark night of the soul. As my own Grand Inquisitor, I spend a lot of time berating myself; mine is a sort of auto-auto-da-fé. The accusatory voice in my head is cleverer than I am—a skilled practitioner of the critical, deconstructive arts—…

Christians Should Give Up “Christianity”: An Interview with Peter Rollins

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…vending machine. The church becomes the shop front, the clergy become the salespeople and the worship becomes the jingles. But what about certainty and satisfaction (which you call ‘addictions’ in the subtitle of the book)? We Americans are told that we can have both, especially in church. If we pray the right way, believe the right way, we can have all these things. Are we not entitled to them? They’re addictions for me because of the way they o…

Robert Bellah’s Powerful Legacy: A Mixed Blessing for Religious Studies?

By Ivan Strenski

…ed his teaching at Berkeley, although he was a much beloved and popular professor there for many years. Bellah’s colleague, Walter Capps, though, taught the nationally famous Viet Nam War course at University of California, Santa Barbara, which perhaps we could see as reflecting Bellah’s vision for the study of religion. Whatever else this course provided, it did inject a strong—and arguably much needed—moral and religious element into reflection…

As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…experienced by gay and lesbian Catholics in the Church. Paul Lakeland, Professor of Theology at Fairfield University in Connecticut, and one of the conference’s key organizers, explains that the conferences were not intended to attack Church teaching on homosexuality. “All of these conferences addressed issues that are left open by the Church teaching. ‘More than A Monologue’ means that there is so much more to be said.” Around the time of these…

Religious Freedom Gets Hollywood Treatment

By Daniel Ramirez

…argely western conﬂagration was sparked by President Plutarco Calles’ long-delayed implementation of the strict anticlerical measures of the 1917 Constitution, and by the Church hierarchy’s suspension of services in response. While political and religious elites jockeyed for power, lay Catholics—bereft of sacraments—rose up in arms. Michael Love’s script develops several sympathetic, if stock, characters, both historical and composite: a reluctant…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…eaningful exit strategy ever more remote. The old American theology of manifest destiny has swelled to insist that our bases abroad are there by divinely-ordained right. We’re now almost a decade into an Orwellian state of perpetual war-at-a-distance. Yet Bousquet writes that we are still only in the “birth pangs” of the chaoplexic paradigm. God save us from what this baby looks like when it’s born; and from the belief systems that soldiers will n…

The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

…acist criminal in-justice system: banners waving, the religious platoon comes late to the march and is never on the front lines. In my view it’s not possible to be in any way prophetic without directing critical insight to the links between race and gender oppressions and the overall political economy we inhabit. For anyone with a liberated faith consciousness, there can legitimately be no shrinking from the existential fight against corporate dom…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…as moving through a typical press briefing when she was asked about the escalation of violent rhetoric in public discourse. The California Democrat suddenly became uncharacteristically emotional, requesting that people tone it down, and recalling the 1978 assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk as an outgrowth of the hate-filled discourse of its time. Warning that people might have to “take respons…

Should Gays and Lesbians Argue Scripture? A Dialogue

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…biblical verses, what do we do? Well, we have to turn to our fundamental values and ask which reading makes sense in light of those values. By way of analogy, “thou shalt not kill” seems to admit of no exceptions—and yet, obviously it does, because other biblical verses discuss the law of war. So we resolve the ambiguity in one verse by looking at other ones. And this is where our tie turns into a win. Unless the very existence of sexual diver…