On Balthasar’s Theology of the Sexes
Corrine Crammer, in her article, “Balthasar’s Theology of the Sexes,” engages Balthasar’s views on gender and concludes that Balthasar’s theology of the sexes, though well-intended, is ultimately...
View ArticleConversations with Augustine: Commentary on Moorman’s Essay
Commentary on Moorman’s Essay by Dan McClain Mary Moorman begins her erudite essay with a three point outline of Augustine’s use of the nuptial metaphor in his ecclesiology (about which I admit to...
View ArticleOn Changing Raced and Racist Habits
“Changing unconscious habits of white privilege requires altering the political, social, physical, economic, psychological, aesthetic, and other environments that ‘feed’ them. Correspondingly, a...
View ArticleFeminist Perspectives on Music as Performative and Political
Related to my previous post on the philosophy of music, I want to say a few words about feminist perspectives of music, which like Adorno’s and Attali’s accounts are also attuned to the social and...
View ArticleAwkward Academic Moments: The Woman Issue, Red Herrings, and Other Nonsense
Although this post is written informally and seasoned with irony, humor, and sardonic flare, it is nonetheless substantive and speaks to issues of which I care deeply, assumptions that need...
View ArticleFoucauldian Strategies for the “Non-Purist” Contemporary Augustinian with...
I recently finished an essay on Augustine and Foucault that brings both thinkers into critical dialogue. Although in the essay itself I highlight strengths and weaknesses of both Foucault and...
View ArticleBreaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment by Dr....
Below is a brief description of my colleague, Dr. Jill A. McCorkel’s new book, Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment. Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into...
View ArticleLiberation Theology Blog Series. Post #2: Rosemary Radford Ruether in the...
Below is part 2 of Dr. Lilian Barger’s post on Rosemary Radford Ruether. You can read part 1, Rosemary Radford Ruether and Women as the “First and Final Proletariat,” here. Brief Author Biography:...
View ArticleResources Related to Women’s Issues and the Church
I recently came across the following resources that relate either directly or somewhat tangentially to my paper for the Baylor conference on friendship and wanted to share them with those interested....
View ArticleAristotle and St. Paul on Women, Take Two
As the result of an extremely helpful (and on-going) dialogue with a friend and colleague concerning my post, “The Superiority of a Christocentric View of Women Over Aristotle’s Claims,” I have made a...
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