THEORY TO NO END

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).

Luke Bretherton is Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Research Professor of Moral and Political Theology and senior fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Before joining the Duke faculty in 2012, he was reader in Theology & Politics and convener of the Faith & Public Policy Forum at King's College London. His latest book is Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (Eerdmans, 2019). His other books include Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which was based on a four-year ethnographic study of broad-based community organizing initiatives in London and elsewhere; Christianity & Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing; and Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity (Routledge, 2006), which develops constructive, theological responses to pluralism in dialogue with broader debates in moral philosophy. Specific issues addressed in his work include euthanasia and hospice care, debt and usury, fair trade, environmental justice, racism, humanitarianism, the treatment of refugees, interfaith relations, secularism, nationalism, church-state relations, and the church's involvement in social welfare provision and social movements. Alongside his scholarly work, he writes in the media (including The Guardian, The Times and The Washington Post) on topics related to religion and politics, has worked with a variety of faith-based NGOs, mission agencies, and churches around the world, and has been actively involved over many years in forms of grassroots democratic politics, both in the UK and the US. His primary areas of research, supervision, and teaching are Christian ethics, political theology, the intellectual and social history of Christian moral and political thought, the relationship between Christianity and capitalism, missiology, interfaith relations, and practices of social, political, and economic witness. He has received a number of grants and awards, including a Henry Luce III Fellowship (2017-18).

In this episode we discuss his latest book, Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (Eerdmans, 2019).

Lee Ward is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He has published widely in the areas of Political Theory and American Political Thought. His books include The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America (Cambridge University Press, 2004), John Locke and Modern Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau and Jefferson (Palgrave McMillan, 2014) and Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). He is editor of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government (Hackett Publishing, 2016). He has also published articles on John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Aristotle, Montesquieu, Algernon Sidney, Plato, Baruch Spinoza, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tom Paine, John Stuart Mill, Irish republicanism, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas that have appeared in several leading academic journals.

In this episode we discuss his 2022 article published in Political Theology titled, "Political Theology and Constitutionalism in Carl Schmitt and Jurgen Habermas."

Steve Knepper is an associate professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. His main areas of expertise are philosophy and literature, aesthetics, and American literature. He is the author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond, which was published in 2022 by SUNY Press and will soon be re-released as a paperback, and he is currently editing A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible. His essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in several journals.

In this episode we discuss John's latest monograph, Love's Forgiveness, published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

For a detailed biography and bibliography, please follow the link below:

https://www.notredame.edu.au/research/institute-for-ethics-and-society/staff/john-lippitt

In this episode we discuss concepts from his book titled, God and Gravity: A Philip Clayton Reader on Science and Theology, edited by Bradford McCall (2018).

https://www.amazon.com/God-Gravity-Clayton-Science-Theology/dp/1532649568/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Christopher T. Fan is Assistant Professor at UC Irvine in the departments of English, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies, and a senior editor at Hyphen magazine, which he also co-founded. His research and writing focus on 20/21st c. Anglophone and Asian/American cultural production, speculative fiction, and racial form. He received his PhD in English literature from UC Berkeley in 2016, and was formerly a UC Chancellor's postdoctoral fellow in the English department at UC Riverside.

In addition to Hyphen, his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, American Quarterly, the Journal of Asian American Studies, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Post45, Public Books, The New Inquiry, and American Literary History: Forum.

He is currently working on a book, tentatively titled Principles of Selection: Asian American Fiction after 1965, about post-1965 Asian/American fiction (especially science fiction) as an articulation of immigration policy and US-Asia political economy.

We discuss two of his articles:

"Science Fictionality and Post-65 Asian American Literature," American Literary History 33.1 (Spring, 2021).

"Melancholy Transcendence: Ted Chiang and Asian American Postracial Form," Post45: Peer Reviewed (November 6, 2014).