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Dying with Others: Reflections on Ataxia, Suffering, and Ken’s Mom Articles & EssaysSufferingThomas Aquinas

Dying with Others: Reflections on Ataxia, Suffering, and Ken’s Mom

An article for Theology Today. ABSTRACT The author employs Thomas Aquinas's conception of divine existence in order to characterize creaturely being as contingent rather than necessary, and suffering as participatory rather than isolating. In this way, the article disputes both the narratives of necessity inherent…
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December 1, 2008
Transgressing Borders: Genetic Research, Immigration, and Discourses of Sacrifice Articles & EssaysGeneticsImmigrants

Transgressing Borders: Genetic Research, Immigration, and Discourses of Sacrifice

An article for Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. ABSTRACT Utilizing Michel Foucault's conception of "plague" as a description of states of exception, this essay analyzes America's plans to genetically screen illegal immigrants. It argues that liberal democratic theory presupposes the exceptionalism of the…
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December 1, 2008
The Vietnam War as Theo-Drama: Balthasar, Kenosis, and the Cold War’s Temporal Desperation Articles & EssaysBalthasarVietnamWar

The Vietnam War as Theo-Drama: Balthasar, Kenosis, and the Cold War’s Temporal Desperation

An article for Political Theology. ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the Vietnam War through the lens of Hans urs von Balthasar’s “theological-drama.” According to Balthasar, the unfolding of God’s eternal self-giving illumines creaturely temporality as desperate when turned inward, no longer desiring its eternal fulfillment but…
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November 1, 2007