The Catacombic Machine

Matt and Preston joins the Post Structuralist Tent Revival to discuss Gil Anidjar's essay, "Globalatinology"!

Catherine Keller recently visited Sweden to deliver a few lectures in Betlehemskyrkan, Gothenburg. This episode is from the opening day which focused on introducing Catherine to the visitors. In the forthcoming weeks we will publish some of her lectures too.

Organizers of the event Teologi som förändrar världen: Göteborgs stift, Equmeniakyrkan, Oscar Fredriks församling, Betlehemskyrkan, Sensus and Gothenburg University.

Participants: KG Hammar, Petra Carlsson and Andreas Nordlander.

Music by: Jonatan Bäckelie and Roma Ransom.

In this episode, Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with guests, Catherine Keller, and Clayton Crockett about political theology (among other things), which is the topic for Drew University’s impending interdisciplinary colloquium: Political Theology at the Edge: Collectivities of Crisis and Possibility, March 29-31, 2019. Click HERE for more details on how to register. Peace.

Catherine will also be in Sweden March 18-19. Check out the Facebook event for more information.

The politics of the middle is a way of acting and representing the ordinary in everyday life. It opens up space to think about being political as an ordinary occurrence, something beyond otherworldly concerns. In this episode, Preston Price talks with Vincent Lloyd about the politics of the middle as well as other topics. Lloyd is associate professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University and the author of the book discussed in the show “The Problem with Grace” along with others. Enjoy!

In this episode of The Catacombic Machine, Preston Price talks with Aaron van Voorhis of Central Avenue Church in Glendale, California. Aaron has been on the show once before talking with Josef about his background in Christianity and the praxis of radical theology. We dive a little deeper into praxis and radical theology as we talked about what it means to minister to a radical community, the best way to engage people in conservative churches, and our current state of affairs in America. You can find more information about Aaron on his website and his church’s website here.

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Out of light comes darkness in the infinite play of destructivity. What was once whole has now become incomplete, a new de-creation of death-in-life. We want to hold onto the very fabric of living and beauty without realizing that each moment slips away, creating space for something new to emerge. It is this space of emergence which we find how meaning is made, through the constructs of destruction.

This all might sound a bit dark, and that is the point. Without the serpent there would be no Fall, hence no redemption. Necropsychoanalysis does not have room for a savior, not even in the form of the analyst, though. One could say that it is a process of becoming attuned to dying, that life is miserable and meaningless, a dark cavern with infinite depths. Instead of analysis leading the subject outside of the world of shadows into the daylight of freedom, necropsychoanalysts seem to be co-developers of a deeper tread into darkness, the lightless plunge further into modes of despair.

I’m not sure what to make of this, though. On the one hand, hasn’t the world seen enough of messiahs? Maybe. However, the principle of developing coping mechanisms is a healthy step when confronted with the evidence that our illusions enslave us to forms of reality which create modes of destruction.

I really appreciated Julie’s thoughtfulness and her pushback towards clarity. Julie Reshe is a necropsychoanalyst with a private practice that can be accessed through her website: https://www.drjuliereshe.com/. She is also professor of philosophy and director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Center for Advanced Studies: https://thegcas.org/.

Barry Taylor talk to Jack Caputo about Jacques Derrida as part of his Patreon series Theology After... Other conversation partners in this series has been Peter Rollins, Peter Sjöstedt-H and Josef Gustafsson. You can find Barry's Patreon page and listen to the other episodes at https://www.patreon.com/barrytaylor

In this episode, Jake Given and Matt Baker speak with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, about goats, metaphysics, science, Freud, Spinoza, panpsychism, and so on. Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University; core faculty in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; and affiliated faculty in the Science and Society Program. She holds a B.A. in Religion and English from Williams College, an M.Phil. in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Columbia University. Her areas of research include continental philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, science and religion, and the history and philosophy of physics, ecology, and cosmology. She is the author of Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (2009) Worlds without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (2014), and Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (forthcoming).

Music by Adrian Romero

In this episode of TCM Preston Price speaks with Jeff Hood who is a Baptist pastor, theologian, and activist in the Texas area. 

Music by Adrian Romero

In this TCM mini-episode you’ll hear a very short talk given by Philip Clayton last November as part of the New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking seminar at AAR in Boston. You’ll also hear brief responses and questions from Karen Brayand Paul Carr.

Philip Clayton is the Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theologyin Claremont, California. Clayton has taught or held research professorships at Williams College, California State University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, and the University of Munich. His research focuses on biological emergence, religion and science, process studies, and contemporary issues in ecology, religion, and ethics. He is the recipient of multiple research grants and international lectureships, as well as the author of numerous books, including The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, Faith(2011); Religion and Science: The Basics(2011); Transforming Christian Theology: For Church and Society(2009); and In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World(2009). He also edited The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science(2006).

In books and lectures, Clayton works to formulate constructive theological responses to developments in contemporary science and philosophy. He has also been a leading advocate for comparative theology and the internationalization of the science-religion dialogue. As P.I. of the “Science and the Spiritual Quest” program and as Provost of a multi-faith university, he worked to expand these fields to include Muslim and Jewish scholars, the Dharma traditions of India, and the religious traditions of Southeast Asia.