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Tactilely knowing what it means to be human: Aesthetic solidarity

Excerpts from Maureen O’Connell, ‘The Dance of Open Minds and Hearts: Aesthetic Solidarity as Antidote to an Anemic Solidarity’, Political Theology, 15(1), 74-87. Anemic solidarity and a failing moral imagination Christian ethicist Mary Elizabeth Hobgood notes that as more than … Continue reading

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Incarnation and flesh: relation, vulnerability and flourishing

Professor Mayra Rivera (Associate Professor of Theology and Latino/a Studies at the Harvard Divinity School) chats with Anthropos (Research Group of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium) about her 2015 publication Poetics of the Flesh. She … Continue reading

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Our Bodies, Ourselves as the Agents of Love

Excerpts taken from Beverly W. Harrison (1981), ‘The Power of Anger in the Work of Love’ in Union Seminary Quarterly Review, vol. xxxvi, pp. 41-57, a key article in feminist theology. Part 3 … embodiment … A moral theology must not only … Continue reading

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The Power of Anger in the Work of Love

Excerpts taken from Beverly W. Harrison (1981), ‘The Power of Anger in the Work of Love’ in Union Seminary Quarterly Review, vol. xxxvi, pp. 41-57, a key article in feminist theology. Part 1 If only the withholding of power were adequate to … Continue reading

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