Locke subordinated revelation to reason out of political caution against religious enthusiasts. Brown, Julia. "John Locke on Reading the Bible: Rational Obscurity and the Lockean 'Rule.'" Political theology : the journal of Christian Socialism 24.5 (2023): 447–464.

György Geréby is Associate professor in the Medieval Studies Department at the Central European University, Budapest and Vienna. He is Historian of Medieval and Late Antique philosophy and theology, with a research interest in methodology in medieval philosophy and theology, theory of language and proof, and its applicability to conceptual analysis. He has an additional interest in early Christianity and the apocrypha, and political theology.

In this episode we discuss his article titled, "Political Theology versus Theological Politics: Erik Peterson and Carl Schmitt," published in New German Critique 105, Vol. 35, No. 3, Fall 2008.

Menachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is former President of the Israel Society for History and Philosophy of Science, and former Chair of the National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science at the Israel Academy of Science. He has held several visiting research positions and published numerous monographs and articles in a variety of fields related to the theology of the talmudic literature

In this episode we discuss The Aqedah and The Fall: Contrasting Paradigms of Rabbinic Religiosity, 2024, forthcoming in J-P. Fortin and H. Schulz (eds.), Aqedah: The Binding of Isaac (Gen 22) as a Challenge for the Rationality of Religion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, De Gruyter, 2024.

György Geréby is Associate professor in the Medieval Studies Department at the Central European University, Budapest and Vienna. He is Historian of Medieval and Late Antique philosophy and theology, with a research interest in methodology in medieval philosophy and theology, theory of language and proof, and its applicability to conceptual analysis. He has an additional interest in early Christianity and the apocrypha, and political theology.

In this episode we discuss his article titled, "The Theology of Carl Schmitt," published in Politeja 18 (2021).

Adi Ophir is a visiting professor affiliated with the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Middle East Studies. At the Cogut Institute, he directs the Political Concepts initiative. He is also Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. His current research focuses on political concepts as events, performances, and discursive apparatuses, with special attention to three concepts: "concept," "political," and "the Other." He studies types of Others in general, and the structure and genealogy of one type of Other in particular–the Goy, the Jew's Other. He is the founding editor of Theory and Criticism, Israel's leading journal for critical theory, and Mafte'akh: Lexical Review for Political Thought. His recent books include The One-State Condition (Stanford University Press, 2012), co-authored with Ariella Azoulay; Divine Violence: Two Essays on God and Disaster (Hebrew, The Van Leer Institute, 2013); and Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (Oxford University Press, 2018), co-authored with Ishai Rosen-Zvi.

In this episode we discuss his latest book: In the beginning was the state: divine violence in the Hebrew Bible (Fordham University Press, 2023).

Siphiwe Ignatius Dube is Senior Lecturer and former Head in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is an author of numerous interdisciplinary articles and chapters (and has also supervised) on a range of topics covering African politics and religion, feminisms, post-colonial literature, race, religion and masculinities, religion and identity politics, religion and popular culture, and transitional justice. He is a United World College (Atlantic College) alumnus, recipient of the Prince of Wales Scholarship, the Don Norton Award, the NRF-DST Scarce Skills Development Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and a PASRC Fellow amongst other achievements. His current two projects focus on African Political Theology and the Religious New Right in post-apartheid South Africa.

In this episode we discuss his article titled, "Black African Neo/Pentecostal Political Subjectivity and/as Black Consciousness," published in Political Theology, 2024.

Miguel Vatter is Professor in Political Science at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University. He has published extensively on political theology. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, his most recent books are Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt ( 2021) and Divine Democracy: Political Theology After Carl Schmitt (2020). A complete list of publications is found here: https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/miguel-vatter

In this episode we discuss his book chapter titled, "Atheism, Post-secularism and the Legitimacy of Democracy" published in Political Theology Today: 100 Years after Carl Schmitt in 2023.

Erica Weiss is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. She is a cultural anthropologist researching the ways people navigate the ethical dilemmas they encounter during their everyday lives and with people who are different than themselves. She does her research in Israel and Palestine, using ethnographic methods.

In this episode we discuss her article titled, "Divergent and Emergent Political Theologies of Peace Amongst Jewish Israelis," published in Political Theology in March 2024.

Jennifer Rust is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of English at Saint Louis University. Her research interests include Early modern English literature, Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance prose fiction, Catholic writing in the English Reformation, political theology, religious studies, critical theory, gender and sovereignty. Her book is titled, The Body in Mystery: the Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014.

In this episode we discuss two of her recent articles:

"Ad Salutem Publicam: public health and pastoral government in More' Utopia." Textual Practice. May 2023, Vol. 37 Issue 5, p. 706-724.

"Political Theology, Pastoral Power, and Resistance." Political Theology. Feb. 2021, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p. 89-94.

Mary L. Hirschfeld is John T. Ryan Jr. Associate Professor of Theology and Business Ethics and Academic Director of the Business Ethics and Society Program at the University of Notre Dame. She works on the boundaries between theology and economics using an approach rooted in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. She has written on economic inequality, the technocratic paradigm, the financial crisis and the common good.

Her book is titled, Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy (Harvard University Press, 2018).

In this episode we discuss her article titled, "Rethinking Economic Inequality: A Theological Perspective," Journal of Religious Ethics, 42(2) (June 2019): 259-282.