il n'ya a pas de hors texte…[1] Summarizing Derrida's deconstructive project would be a colossal task. Because of its very nature, there is no short, clear exposition of deconstruction. However, for our purposes we will focus on only a couple of its concepts, gleaning insights from a few key texts. The first of these, perhaps the most famous axiom of postmodern thought: there is nothing...
In God Without Being, Jean-Luc Marion explores the Eucharistic event as the scene of inbreaking of God's unconditional gift to humanity – a theological site where sign, locutor, and referent all converge in the person of Jesus Christ, the living Word.[1] However, along with the gift Marion includes a conditional that keeps on giving: the bishop as mediator of Christ, or put another way, a human...
In Being Human, a course on theological anthropology, I had to present some observations on the second half of Ian McFarland's Difference & Identity: A Theological Anthropology[1] and lead a class discussion. What follows is the written presentation and the questions I used to start the class discussion.
A discussion of Tertullian's incarnational theology as expressed in On the Flesh of Christ.
My hat is off to Victor de Villa Lapidis for his letter, sharing some of the trials of being gay and Orthodox while also fanning the embers of hope through the remembering of Russia's queer* Orthodox sons: Soloviev, Gogol, Brianchaninov, Leontiev, Tchaikovsky, Florensky...
A short essay on Gregory of Nyssa's The Life of Moses.
Keeping with yesterday's post, here's another excerpt from my candidate statement...
An excerpt from the candidate statement I submitted to get into grad school. How can queer theology be informed by Eastern Orthodoxy?
Hello! As I start my PhD I'm starting a new professional website to post on my progress...
Through withdrawal from the system that runs us and tells us who we are, we create the opportunity for the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit to speak within us, presenting us with a new identity.