In our first post in this series we considered whether the “Exile as suspicion of Empire” concept can be applied more broadly than just to theology and religion, and I suggested that it can. Further, I then nominated a candidate for the most meta of all metanarratives, the mack-daddy of myths that few today even […]
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Cosmic Exile: Can Scientism Really be Questioned?
I have been thinking recently about the question of seeking to apply the Exile/Empire project more broadly than we have done here, beyond the borders of theology and religion, to the reigning paradigm that governs virtually everything else in our culture. Before I elaborate, a couple things…. To jog your memory, here’s a quick refresher […]
A Theopoetics of Exile: The Risk of Divine (May)Being
As we approach the end of our series on Exile & Empire, I’d like to explore a bit further something I alluded to earlier. Speaking of the effects of the Jesus story upon humankind, I wrote: Or to put all this in (much) less orthodox terms, maybe there is no external divine Agent accomplishing any of this, […]
A Theopoetics of Exile: Hocus, Pocus, and Kenosis
We have been discussing the death of God and its effects, and I have hinted at how the notion of resurrection might be understood within this paradigm of Exile & Empire that I have been seeking to build. Enough hints, let’s roll up our sleeves and dig in. I will say at the outset that […]
A Theopoetics of Exile: Humanity 2.0
We have seen thus far that with the death of Jesus came the death of an idolatrous and serpentine system according to which God is a kind of Genie in a bottle whose job is to provide us with the sense of wholeness and well-being that we lack. But if this God-as-idol has been crucified, what […]
A Theopoetics of Exile: God is Dead. Long Live God.
We have seen throughout this series that participating in the death of God involves crucifying our own idols, “God” included. But then what? Is there a resurrection? Kinda. According to the New Testament gospels, Jesus died on a cross, was buried in a tomb, and then emerged from the tomb on the third day alive […]