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The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology Edited by Christopher D The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology Edited by Christopher D. Rodkey · Jordan E. Miller Radical Theologies and Philosophies Series Editors Mike Grimshaw Department of Sociology University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand Michael Zbaraschuk Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA, USA Joshua Ramey Grinnell College Grinnell, IA, USA Radical Theologies and Philosophies is a call for transformational theologies that break out of traditional locations and approaches. The rhizomic ethos of radical theologies enable the series to engage with an ever-expanding radical expression and critique of theologies that have entered or seek to enter the public sphere, arising from the continued turn to religion and especially radical theology in politics, social sciences, philosophy, theory, cultural, and literary studies. The post-theistic theology both driving and arising from these intersections is the focus of this series. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14521 Christopher D. Rodkey • Jordan E. Miller Editors The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology Editors Christopher D. Rodkey Jordan E. Miller St. Paul’s United Church of Christ Independent Dallastown, PA, USA Newport, RI, USA Radical Theologies and Philosophies ISBN 978-3-319-96594-9 ISBN 978-3-319-96595-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96595-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018957459 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover art by Chris Nelson This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Before we acknowledge anyone else, we wish to first thank our contributors for their trust and confidence in this project. The authors come from around the world, in various disciplines, and in different vocations. This project would not have been possible without the support and assis- tance of Mike Grimshaw and Burke Gerstenschlager. Mike has been a partner with this project since it was just an idea and encouraged it to happen. Burke was instrumental in developing this project in its earliest forms. We would also like to thank the Arts, Religion, Culture (ARC)-sponsored Radical Theology and Theopoetics Working Group that Jordan convened at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Boston in 2017. Its participants include Jennifer Bailey, Karen Bray, Daniel Boscaljon, J. Kameron Carter, Jon Ivan Gill, James Howard Hill, Jr., L. Callid Keefe-Perry, Kate Lassiter, Lakisha Lockhart-Rusch, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and George Schmidt. This group of scholars, clergy, and activists is doing the work of real radical theology, out in the open, in a way that is bare, honest, and politically engaged. In conjunction with the work of the Westar Institute’s Seminar on God and the Human Future, of which many of this volume’s contributors are fellows, we can say that the future is bright for radical theology and other post-theistic thinking. Thanks for showing the way. v PRaISE FOR THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF RADICAL THEOLOGY “Radical theology today is an emergent discipline in need of handbook that tells who to read and what the issues are. Jordan Miller and Christopher Rodkey have provided that for us in this adroitly constructed and wide-ranging collection, with entries on the major figures and central topics preceded by masterful introductory materials which make this the place to start in the study of radical theology.” —John D. Caputo, Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus, Syracuse University; David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Villanova University, USA “It is an important moment, not without its irony, when a revolutionary multiplicity of thinkers can be kneaded into a heritage, indeed a tradition deserving of a handbook. The irony doubles: how many current thinkers even realize that “radical” and “theol- ogy” cohabit? Rodkey and Miller have nobly mobilized a spirited assemblage of voices about prior voices for this needy time—when standard secularism fails along with con- ventional religion to energize the justice, the ecology and the creativity of a shared life.” —Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, USA “This is a truly encyclopedic treatment of a conversation that for a couple of decades made theology an important contributor to the cultural and intellectual conversation. This book may help to re-enliven radical theology and renew the sense, now all too anemic, that theology is important.” —John B. Cobb, Jr., founding co-director of the Center for Process Studies and Process & Faith; Ingraham Professor of Theology Emeritus, School of Theology at Claremont; Avery Professor Emeritus, Claremont Graduate School, USA vii CONTENTS Part I Background and Introduction 1 1 Introduction 3 Christopher D. Rodkey and Jordan E. Miller 2 Background 15 Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey W. Robbins 3 Chronology of Radical Theology 33 Jordan E. Miller and Christopher D. Rodkey Part II Figures 41 4 James Luther Adams 43 George Kimmich Beach 5 Thomas J.J. Altizer 55 J. Leavitt Pearl and Christopher D. Rodkey 6 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 83 Robert Saler 7 John D. Caputo 95 Katharine Sarah Moody 8 Har vey Cox 117 Hollis Phelps ix x COntents 9 Don Cupitt 135 Gavin Hyman 10 Mary Daly 155 Christopher D. Rodkey 11 Leslie Dewart 171 Richard Sawa and W. T. S. Tarver 12 Jacques Ellul 187 Richard A. Davis 13 Lloyd Geering 203 Mike Grimshaw 14 René Girard 221 David Dawson 15 William Hamilton 241 G. Michael Zbaraschuk 16 Catherine Keller 249 Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Winfield Goodwin, Elijah Prewitt-Davis, and Austin Roberts 17 D. G. Leahy 269 Lissa McCullough 18 Charles H. Long 281 L. Benjamin Rolsky 19 Joyce Marshall and Gene Marshall 297 Alan Jay Richard 20 Carl A. Raschke 323 Alan Jay Richard 21 Richard L. Rubenstein 343 Ingrid Anderson 22 Dorothee Soelle 367 Sarah Pinnock CONTENTS xi 23 Jacob Taubes 381 Bruce Rosenstock 24 Mark C. Taylor 399 George M. Schmidt 25 Paul Tillich 409 Russell Re Manning 26 Gabriel Vahanian 425 Mike Grimshaw 27 Paul Matthews van Buren 443 Ellen T. Charry 28 Simone Weil 459 Lissa McCullough 29 Charles E. Winquist 473 Noëlle Vahanian 30 Slavoj Žižek 479 Marika Rose Part III Topics 497 31 Agnostic Theology 499 Daniel Boscaljon 32 Animal Studies 511 David Dillard-Wright 33 Buddhism 519 Thomas J. J. Altizer and Jordan E. Miller 34 Catholicism 535 Thomas J. J. Altizer 35 Ecstatic Naturalism 549 David Rohr xii COntents 36 The Emerging Church Movement 559 Kester Brewin 37 Feminist Theologies 567 Lisa Isherwood 38 Hinduism 579 Alina N. Feld 39 Hip-Hop 597 Jon Ivan Gill 40 Homiletics 607 Phil Snider 41 The Honest to God Controversy 621 N. T. Wright 42 Islam 635 Jeff Miller 43 Judaism 649 Ingrid Anderson 44 Liberation Theology 667 Cláudio Carvalhaes 45 Literature 677 Gregory Erickson 46 Liturgy 687 Keegan Osinski 47 Marxism 695 Roland Boer 48 Orthodoxy 705 Oleg B. Davydov 49 Pentecostalism 713 James R. Melnarik CONTENTS xiii 50 Play Theology 717 Hollis Phelps 51 Postcolonial/Decolonial Theology 727 An Yountae 52 Psychoanalysis 735 Tad DeLay 53 Science 747 Mary-Jane Rubenstein 54 Theopoetics 757 J. Blake Huggins and L. Callid Keefe-Perry 55 Artist Statement 769 Chris Nelson Index 771 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Thomas J. J. Altizer is a Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His many books include Satan and Apocalypse: And Other Essays in Political Theology (SUNY, 2017); The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Westminster, 1966); Radical Theology and the Death of God with William Hamilton (Bobbs-Merrill, 1966); Total Presence (Seabury, 1980); Deconstruction and Theology with Carl Raschke, Robert P. Scharlemann, Mark C. Taylor, and Charles E. Winquist (Crossroad, 1982); Living the Death of God: A Theological Memoir (SUNY, 2006); and The Apocalyptic Trinity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Ingrid Anderson is an Associate Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. She is a full-time instructor in the College of Arts and Science Writing Program and currently teaches courses on post-Holocaust ethics, Judaism and gender, and modern Jewish thought. Her research interests include contemporary understandings of the relationship between ethical response and suffering and the construction of minority identities in the West. Her current research includes images of Jews in modern English literature, the history of Anglo-Zionism, and the impact of French existentialism on modern and contemporary Jewish thought. George Kimmich Beach is the author of The Seminal Gospel: Forty Days with Mark (Campicello, 2013), Transforming Liberalism: The Theology of James Luther Adams (Skinner House Books, 2005), and Questions for the Religious Journey (Skinner House Books, 2002).
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