JCRT 9.1 Winter 2008

JCRT 10.1 Winter 2009
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Vol. 10, no. 1 - Winter 2009
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Articles
The Secular to Come: Interrogating the Derridean ‘Secular’
Mark Cauchi, York University, Toronto
There has been much talk in recent years in both philosophy and politics about what has been called the �return of the religious.� It is perhaps not surprising�.
Messianic Media: Benjamin�s Cinema, Badiou�s Matheme, Negri�s Multitude
Rocco Gangle, Endicott College
Messianic themes resound today not only in popular culture and global politics but also in academic theory. In contemporary thought the topos of the messianic�
Meditations on Death and the Sublime: Henry Bugbee�s In Demonstration of the Spirit
Ed Mooney, Syracuse University
How do religion, philosophy, and lyric prose or poetry intermingle and animate each other�the first especially in its commemoration of the dead�
Human, Life, and Other Sacred Stuff
William Robert, Syracuse University
"Life is sacred stuff,� writes John Caputo as he affirms his theological proposal for the weakness of God. God, according to Caputo, names an event�
Claude Lefort and the Illegitimacy of Modernity
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Independent Researcher, T�bingen, Germany
The French historian, Jean-Claude Monod, claims that there are three waves of political theology in the twentieth century. This includes the �general democratic reorientation�
Talk
Moments of Intense Presence: A Conversation with David Wood
J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood
I have always been fascinated by the accounts that philosophers give of their influences and their own explanation of how…
Book Reviews
Eschatizing the Soteriological: Worlding the Word
David L. Miller, Syracuse
These statements, and the perspective to which they point and upon which Gabriel Vahanian insists, place the author in an illustrious company: Martin�
Book Profiles
Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation, by Rodney Clapp
Christopher Rodkey, Lebanon Valley College
Rodney Clapp�s Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction is not so much a book about Johnny Cash as it is on the American South. In fact, the book…
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