by joelabrown | Jan 16, 2018 | Religion and Politics, Religious Ethics
The January issue of the Forum features David Barr’s (University of Chicago) essay, “Evangelical Support for Trump as a Moral Project: Description and Critique.” The rise of Donald J. Trump to the presidency has caused a crisis of misunderstanding in...
by joelabrown | Jan 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Darryl Dale-Ferguson (University of Chicago) brings our series on Enhancing Life to a close with his essay, “Envisioning a Fragile Justice.” He argues that human life is fragile and precarious, our knowledge and capacities limited and fallible. This is...
by joelabrown | Dec 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
Michael S. Hogue (PhD ’05) offers the next contribution to our issue on Enhancing Life with his essay, “Resilient Democracy in the Anthropocene.” Hogue’s work in the Enhancing Life Project has been organized around two types of questions,...
by joelabrown | Dec 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Andrew Packman (University of Chicago) joins the roundtable with his essay, “Enhancing Racialized Social Life: The Implicit Spiritual Dimension of Critical Race Theory.” Packman’s post asks what it means to enhance life generally by asking what it...
by joelabrown | Dec 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Heike Springhart (University of Heidelberg) contributes the next installment in our new extended issue with her essay, “Vitality in Vulnerability: Realistic Anthropology as Humanistic Anthropology.” The November-December issue of the Forum features...
by joelabrown | Nov 27, 2017 | Enhancing Life, Material religion, November-December 2017, Theology
As we enter a holiday season filled with feasts and festivities, Kristine A. Culp (University of Chicago), in conversation with John Calvin, invites us to consider the relationship between theology and the food we enjoy, the relationship between glory and gastronomy....
by joelabrown | Nov 22, 2017 | Enhancing Life, November-December 2017, Religious Ethics
Anne T. Mocko (PhD ’12) contributes the next installment in our new extended issue with her essay, “Attending to Insects.” The essay is part of Professor Mocko’s current Enhancing Life manuscript, Eco-Karma: What Western environmentalists might...
by joelabrown | Nov 16, 2017 | Enhancing Life, November-December 2017, Religious Ethics
Professor William Schweiker (U. of Chicago) kicks off a new extended issue of the Forum with his essay, “Enhancing Life and the Forms of Freedom.” The November-December issue features the Enhancing Life Project, which takes aim at addressing one of the...
by joelabrown | Oct 30, 2017 | October 2017, Race and Religion, Religion and Politics, Religious Ethics, Scholars' Roundtable, Theology
The third post in our October issue of the Forum comes from Brandy Daniels (University of Virginia), a religious leader and scholar who participated alongside other clergy and religious leaders in the Charlottesville counter-protests. In this essay, Daniels considers...
by joelabrown | Oct 20, 2017 | Hebrew Bible, October 2017, Race and Religion, Scholars' Roundtable
The second post in our October issue of the Forum comes from Amanda Mbuvi (High Point University), a Hebrew Bible scholar, in which she offers the book of Genesis as a potential resource for rethinking notions of race and identity in light of recent events. For our...
