Clayton Crockett

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Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

Foreword

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Edible Entanglements

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In this book, Shelley Dennis develops a political theology of food that engages the important idea of sovereignty. On the one hand, sovereignty is the nation-state’s unified power to decide, based on the work of Carl Schmitt. On the other hand, food sovereignty offers an important site of resistance to the onslaught of corporate capitalism and its food security regime. Dennis combines excellent theoretical analysis with valuable ecological applications. Anyone concerned about access to food in the context of climate change should read it!”

Embracing Hopelessness

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Embracing Hopelessness is a powerful and bracing book. In it, Miguel A. De La Torre develops the theological alternative to Moltmann’s Theology of Hope, taking up many of the most difficult political issues of our world today. He spares us no illusions but gives something even more precious: the chance to live without illusions in solidarity with the most vulnerable human beings. It is precisely the resistance to the brutal ideology of complacent hope that is most stirring. Everyone who considers themselves humane, ethical, and/or religious should read and struggle with it.”

God Is Unconscious

Theology

“God is Unconscious is a brilliant and accessible overview of Lacan's thought, demonstrating how it directly applies to religion and politics. Delay develops an original understanding of perversion, and how it applies to contemporary conservative Christianity. Anyone interested in understanding how religion works in social, political, and psychological terms should read this book.”

Of Prayers and Tears

Theology

“Saitya Brata Das is one of the top philosophers of religion in the world today, and this book continues his powerful engagement with political theology. More significantly, these essays are animated with existential passions of life, love, sorrow, serenity, and joy. Read them, sit with them, and be transformed.”

The Becoming of God

Theology

“Faber is one of the most creative theologians alive, and The Becoming of God is a masterful engagement with Whitehead. Through sixteen profound Explorations, he explains how Whitehead's ideas about God remain vitally important for contemporary understandings of philosophy, science, and religion. The book culminates with Faber's own theo-poetics, including his important conception of God as Poet of the World.”

Theology of Debt

Theology

“Christian theology has a complicated historical relation to debt, which Hollis Phelps helps uncover in this important book. With clear and insightful explanations, he shows how theories of Christ’s atonement exploit us, and he also provides tools to liberate ourselves from financial and spiritual debt. Paradoxically, the only way we can ‘save’ ourselves is by living an ‘unsavable’ life.”