https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/marikarose/activity/ Activity feed for Marika Rose. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:39:40 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e1fd96fa942601371d01f2ce236d672a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1925071/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:17:54 +0000 0 e8bb8a0db8f61a7a5b51294f52f2af5c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887446/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:34 +0000 The central problem of the doctrine of creation - why did God create the world? - has important parallels with the central problem of the fall - how did sin enter the world? Both problems are essentially problems of freedom, of inexplicable decision - problems, that is, of sovereignty. This chapter will explore these parallel problems of creation…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7eace5ffbd417ffb8709f82b8888b5f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887367/ Tue, 28 May 2024 11:15:46 +0000 The central problem of the doctrine of creation - why did God create the world? - has important parallels with the central problem of the fall - how did sin enter the world? Both problems are essentially problems of freedom, of inexplicable decision - problems, that is, of sovereignty. This chapter will explore these parallel problems of creation…[Read more]

]]> 0 6556a536f7a3b18855494312c1b9e99c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850295/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:37:14 +0000 0 b12e8aac6a8deea5d59fc2dd7c0204bb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850293/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:29:08 +0000 0 0c8ec58f2cf191a2daf2acb165137bde https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660297/ Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:36:52 +0000 0 ce2e9bce546c0e3533e95fe82afc0538 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660265/ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:32:02 +0000 In this article I consider the stories of Jesus’ women ancestors in the genealogy which opens the Gospel of Matthew. Reading these stories in light of Marxist-feminist analyses of marriage, sex work and reproductive labor, alongside contemporary sex workers’ rights discourse, and through Marcella Althaus-Reid’s claim that all theology is “a se…[Read more]

]]> 0 69a5a19c1aae5abee459ea46630d9c33 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660222/ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:15:17 +0000 In this article I consider the stories of Jesus’ women ancestors in the genealogy which opens the Gospel of Matthew. Reading these stories in light of Marxist-feminist analyses of marriage, sex work and reproductive labor, alongside contemporary sex workers’ rights discourse, and through Marcella Althaus-Reid’s claim that all theology is “a se…[Read more]

]]> 0 8773b14637b832f16881d78bd7859bdf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624485/ Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:25:21 +0000 This chapter introduces Slavoj Žižek as a thinker, some key concepts and themes of his work as it relates to radical theology, discusses his critical and historical impact, and offers an annotated bibliography of some of his most important works. The file I have uploaded here is the post-print version of the chapter, so may contain errors.

]]> 0 7aeff31cb1b34bc5431b9ae76d86f750 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624430/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 21:43:56 +0000 This chapter introduces Slavoj Žižek as a thinker, some key concepts and themes of his work as it relates to radical theology, discusses his critical and historical impact, and offers an annotated bibliography of some of his most important works. The file I have uploaded here is the post-print version of the chapter, so may contain errors.

]]> 0 5b7e6c58d7eda8fdb1193023072bd17d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622185/ Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:25:21 +0000 An introduction to key ideas and debates concerning the work of Slavoj Žižek in relation to radical theology

]]> 0 cf9dc9ddb1e086a437c41e1ee6924b86 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622055/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:25:06 +0000 An introduction to key ideas and debates concerning the work of Slavoj Žižek in relation to radical theology

]]> 0 4cd1741324313e7bc6dddde321841ab2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592895/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:57:33 +0000 Review of Timothy Knepper, Negating Negation: Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus (James Clarke & Co: Cambridge, 2015) in Modern Believing 58.4 (2017), 406-408.

]]> 0 3c26bd4a673bd4114cfbe38f37c3c130 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577266/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:52:43 +0000 Review of E. Anne Clements, Mothers on the Margin? The Significance of Women in Matthew’s Genealogy (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2014)

]]> 0 4af990dbf13bf6094e0710f3f72a1bdf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577264/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:50:05 +0000 Review of Theodore W. Jennings, An Ethic of Queer Sex: Principles and Improvisations (Chicago: Explorations Press, 2013)

]]> 0 f838e9d3ffb3fec8618467d36456ed60 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577262/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 12:40:35 +0000 Review of Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey W. Robbins, Religion, Politics and the Earth: The New Materialism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

]]> 0 9f2d15d61c96d5b8fc6ae1cb578a0510 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577260/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:15:22 +0000 Review of Jean-Luc Marion, The Erotic Phenomenon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)

]]> 0 6419d80d55a40dae3d0ad71b911585f0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577258/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:09:04 +0000 Review of Matthew Sharpe and Geoff Boucher, Žižek and Politics: A Critical Introduction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), in Political Theology 13.2 (2012), 264-266.

]]> 0 2d86022b6fbd7b983e11cfa73e95f5c1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577257/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:05:42 +0000 Review of John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009)

]]> 0 2dfd169daf6c607399539eb33fd6ded5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577256/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:37:21 +0000 This article responds to David Newheiser’s contribution, ‘Foucault and the Practice of Patristics’, Rick Elgendy’s ‘Practices of the Self, Reading Across Divides: What Michel Foucault Could Have Said about Gregory of Nyssa’ and Devin Singh’s ‘Disciplining Eusebius: Discursive Power and Representation of the Court Theologian’. It discusses two key…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e7feeafd30f68eb8b7e0d34ff84d445 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577255/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:32:15 +0000 This paper interrogates the liberationist vision of Sandford’s “Luxury Communist Jesus,” the reactionary Jesus of Myles’ “Opiate of Christ” and the imperialist chronologies of Wan's "Reflections on Empire" in relation to broader questions concerning the ambiguities of scriptural hermeneutics and the complex relationship of Christianity to capitalism.

]]> 0 f044149eea180bdd05528199fd56672c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577254/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:26:10 +0000 It is always dangerous to assert an essence of anything so sprawling, diverse and multiple as Christianity, which is an institution, or a tradition, or a body that has always been as much at war with itself as with any of the others against which it constitutes itself. But it is perhaps close enough to something like the truth to suggest that,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9a0f7b2cdbb0b157aedd4481697ecda https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577253/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:10:51 +0000 Slavoj Žižek’s enthusiastic endorsement of the Christian legacy as the only hope for the future of radical politics has, unsurprisingly, made him popular amongst many Christians and theologians in recent years. This article explores the underlying logic of Žižek’s celebration of the Christian legacy, arguing that his dual celebration of the Chr…[Read more]

]]> 0 995cce5c513dbfe6c46b4b8239853116 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577252/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:06:38 +0000 Christianity has been ‘returning’ to continental philosophy for some time now. At first it was the question of mystical theology which returned to haunt the continental philosophers’ attempts to articulate the unbridgeable gap between words and things, the individual and the world. More recently it is St Paul who has returned to the centre of th…[Read more]

]]> 0 57f6c63da608afd430ac75ba5939e6cb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577195/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:27:55 +0000 0 1d81db804e250051efa15e779fb417fe https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577191/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:48:40 +0000 This article explores the role of the body in Thomas Aquinas’ ethical thought, focusing on the Summa Theologiae. Drawing on Thomas’ account of human nature, teleology and ethics, it traces Thomas’ account of human embodiment through his discussion of the rela- tionship between human and angelic nature, the beatific vision, law and virtue, and t…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f3fe71c2607de3f76c000e0a1b9e566 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577189/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:43:25 +0000 This paper will argue that the work of Slavoj Žižek can be fruitfully understood as a response to mystical theology as it has been received in two strands of 20th century French thought—psychoanalysis and phenomenology—and that Žižek's work in turn offers intriguing possibilities for the re-figuring of mystical theology by feminist philoso…[Read more]

]]> 0 b53bdc8281cf6a461a6784425d83ae4e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1577179/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 09:12:07 +0000 Maurizio Lazzarato argues that contemporary capitalism functions through two central apparatuses: Social subjection and machinic enslavement. Social subjection equips individuals with a subjectivity, assigning them identities, sexes, bodies, professions, and other markers of identity, along with a sense of their own individual agency within…[Read more]

]]> 0 4680257eac75c963ca1b87b357c09413 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573793/ Sun, 11 Jun 2017 07:28:19 +0000 Charles Taylor’s ‘secular age’ was always also a machine age; the death of God and the mechanisation of the world developed in tandem with one another. Yet magic did not disappear from this new world so much as find itself transposed into new forms, new bodies, and new powers. This paper will explore the implications of this tranp…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0a2ebf9ef5001d18eb823acbe0dbef3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572894/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 01:00:54 +0000 In this chapter I will, first, discuss the marriage of Christian theology and Neoplatonism which takes place in the mystical theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, and some of the problems which arise from this remarkably fruitful liaison. Then, second, I will trace the line of descent which leads from Dionysius to Žižek, who takes this i…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a585407214662c997e5e4d2a14252f4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572893/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 01:00:53 +0000 In this chapter I will, first, discuss the marriage of Christian theology and Neoplatonism which takes place in the mystical theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, and some of the problems which arise from this remarkably fruitful liaison. Then, second, I will trace the line of descent which leads from Dionysius to Žižek, who takes this i…[Read more]

]]> 0 8045fc5c2020e45cc220ee6c18bce338 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572496/ Wed, 31 May 2017 14:11:19 +0000 In this chapter I will, first, discuss the marriage of Christian theology and Neoplatonism which takes place in the mystical theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, and some of the problems which arise from this remarkably fruitful liaison. Then, second, I will trace the line of descent which leads from Dionysius to Žižek, who takes this i…[Read more]

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