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What does failure mean for theology? In the Bible, we find some
unsettling answers to this question. We find lastness usurping
firstness, and foolishness undoing wisdom. We discover, too, a
weakness more potent than strength, and a loss of life that is
essential to finding life. Jesus himself offers an array of
paradoxes and puzzles through his life and teachings. He even
submits himself to humiliation and death to show the cosmos the
true meaning of victory. As David Bentley Hart observes, "most of
us would find Christians truly cast in the New Testament mold
fairly obnoxious: civically reprobate, ideologically unsound,
economically destructive, politically irresponsible, socially
discreditable, and really just a bit indecent." By incorporating
the work of scholars working with a range of frameworks within the
Christian tradition, Theologies of Failure aims to offer a unique
and important contribution on understanding and embracing failure
as a pivotal theological category. As the various contributors
highlight, it is a category with a powerful capacity for
illuminating our theological concerns and perspectives. It is a
category that frees us to see old ideas in a brand-new light, and
helps to foster an awareness of ideas that certain modes of
analysis may have obscured from our vision. In short, this book
invites readers to consider how both theology and failure can help
us ask new questions, discover new possibilities, and refuse the
ways of the world.
Arguments in favour of divine impassibility take many forms, one of
which is moral. This argument views emotional risk, vulnerability,
suffering, and self-love as obstacles to moral perfection. In
Embracing Vulnerability: Human and Divine, the author challenges
these mistaken assumptions about moral judgment. Through an
analysis of Hebrew thought and modern philosophical accounts of
love, justice, and emotion, Roberto Sirvent reveals a fundamental
incompatibility between divine impassibility and the Imitation of
God ethic (imitatio Dei). This book shows that a God who is not
emotionally vulnerable is a God unworthy of our imitation. But in
what sense can we call divine impassibility immoral? To be sure,
God's moral nature teaches humans what it means to live virtuously.
But can human understandings of morality teach us something about
God's moral character? If true, how should we go about judging
God's moral character? Isn't it presumptuous to do so? After all,
if we are going to challenge divine impassibility on moral grounds,
what reason do we have to assume that God is bound by our standards
of morality? Embracing Vulnerability: Human and Divine addresses
these questions and many others. In the process, Sirvent argues for
the importance of thinking morally about theology, inviting
scholars in the fields of philosophical theology and Christian
ethics to place their theological commitments under close moral
scrutiny, and to consider how these commitments reflect and shape
our understanding of the good life.
What does it mean to theorize Christianity in light of the
decolonial turn? This volume invites distinguished Latinx and Latin
American scholars to a conversation that engages the rich
theoretical contributions of the decolonial turn, while relocating
Indigenous, Afro-Latin American, Latinx, and other often
marginalized practices and hermeneutical perspectives to the
center-stage of religious discourse in the Americas. Keeping in
mind that all religions-Christianity included-are cultured, and
avoiding the abstract references to Christianity common to the
modern Eurocentric hegemonic project, the contributors favor
embodied religious practices that emerge in concrete contexts and
communities. Featuring essays from scholars such as Sylvia Marcos,
Enrique Dussel, and Luis Rivera-Pagan, this volume represents a
major step to bring Christian theology into the conversation with
decolonial theory.
Abolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a
spiritual commitment. What does abolition mean and how can we get
there as a collective and improvisational project? To posit the
spirituality of abolition, is to consider the ways historical and
contemporary movements against slavery, prisons, the wage system,
animal and earth exploitation, racialized, gendered, and sexualized
violence, and the death penalty necessitate epistemologies that
have been foreclosed through violent force by Western thought of
philosophical and theological kinds. It is also to claim that the
material conditions that will produce abolition are necessarily
Black, Indigenous, queer and trans, feminist, and also about
disabled and other non-conforming bodies in force and verve.
Abolition and Spirituality asks what can prison abolition teach us
about spiritual practice, spiritual journey, spiritual commitment?
And, what can these things underscore about the struggle for
abolition as a desired manifestation of material change in worlds
we inhabit currently? Collecting writings, poetry, and art from
thinkers, organizers, and incarcerated people the editors trace the
importance of faith and spirit in our ongoing struggle towards
abolitionist horizons.
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