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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]