Matt and Preston joins the Post Structuralist Tent Revival to discuss Gil Anidjar's essay, "Globalatinology"!

Matt and Preston joins the Post Structuralist Tent Revival to discuss Gil Anidjar's essay, "Globalatinology"!

The Post-Catacombic Tent Revival Machine

Catherine Keller

Catherine Keller recently visited Sweden to deliver a few lectures in Betlehemskyrkan, Gothenburg. This episode is from the opening day which focused on introducing Catherine to the visitors. In the forthcoming weeks we will publish some of her lectures too. Organizers of the event Teologi som förändrar världen: Göteborgs stift, Equmeniakyrkan, Oscar Fredriks församling, Betlehemskyrkan, Sensus and Gothenburg University. Participants: KG Hammar, Petra Carlsson and Andreas Nordlander. Music by: Jonatan Bäckelie and Roma Ransom.

Catherine Keller recently visited Sweden to deliver a few lectures in Betlehemskyrkan, Gothenburg. This episode is from the opening day which focused on introducing Catherine to the visitors. In the forthcoming weeks we will publish some of her lectures too. Organizers of the event Teologi som förändrar världen: Göteborgs stift, Equmeniakyrkan, Oscar Fredriks församling, Betlehemskyrkan, Sensus and Gothenburg University. Participants: KG Hammar, Petra Carlsson and Andreas Nordlander. Music by: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4M1LcFlXnn95AquXVUfHx8?si=WQVi-Q9uQIaoY3yvfjlIoA" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Jonatan Bäckelie</a> and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/roma-ransom-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roma Ransom</a>.

Catherine Keller | Transformational Theology

In this episode, Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with guests, Catherine Keller, and Clayton Crockett about political theology (among other things), which is the topic for Drew University’s impending interdisciplinary colloquium: Political Theology at the Edge: Collectivities of Crisis and Possibility, March 29-31, 2019. Click HERE for more details on how to register. Peace. Catherine will also be in Sweden March 18-19. Check out the Facebook event for more information.

In this episode, Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with guests, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Keller_(theologian)" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Catherine Keller</a>, and <a href="https://uca.edu/philosophy/facultystaff/clayton-crockett/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Clayton Crockett</a> about political theology (among other things), which is the topic for Drew University’s impending interdisciplinary colloquium: Political Theology at the Edge: Collectivities of Crisis and Possibility, March 29-31, 2019. Click <a href="http://www.drew.edu/theological-school/theology-programs-traditional-interdisciplinary/doctor-of-philosophy/transdisciplinary-theological-colloquium/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a> for more details on how to register. Peace. Catherine will also be in Sweden March 18-19. Check out the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2243811595671131/?active_tab=discussion" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook event</a> for more information.

Keller, Crockett, & White | Immortal Multibots At The Edge

Vincent Lloyd

The politics of the middle is a way of acting and representing the ordinary in everyday life. It opens up space to think about being political as an ordinary occurrence, something beyond otherworldly concerns. In this episode, Preston Price talks with Vincent Lloyd about the politics of the middle as well as other topics. Lloyd is associate professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University and the author of the book discussed in the show “The Problem with Grace” along with others. Enjoy!

The politics of the middle is a way of acting and representing the ordinary in everyday life. It opens up space to think about being political as an ordinary occurrence, something beyond otherworldly concerns. In this episode, Preston Price talks with Vincent Lloyd about the politics of the middle as well as other topics. Lloyd is <a href="http://www09.homepage.villanova.edu/vincent.lloyd/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">associate professor of Theology and Religious Studies</a> at Villanova University and the author of the book discussed in the show “The Problem with Grace” along with others. Enjoy!

Vincent Lloyd | Politics of the Middle

In this episode of The Catacombic Machine, Preston Price talks with Aaron van Voorhis of Central Avenue Church in Glendale, California. Aaron has been on the show once before talking with Josef about his background in Christianity and the praxis of radical theology. We dive a little deeper into praxis and radical theology as we talked about what it means to minister to a radical community, the best way to engage people in conservative churches, and our current state of affairs in America. You can find more information about Aaron on his website and his church’s website here. Connect up with us on Facebook or Twitter and let us know what you think about this episode and previous iterations of the show.

In this episode of The Catacombic Machine, Preston Price talks with Aaron van Voorhis of Central Avenue Church in Glendale, California. Aaron has been on the <a href="http://thecatacombicmachine.com/podcast/2017/9/19/aaron-van-voorhis-a-survival-guide-for-heretics?rq=aaron" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">show once before</a> talking with Josef about his background in Christianity and the praxis of radical theology. We dive a little deeper into praxis and radical theology as we talked about what it means to minister to a radical community, the best way to engage people in conservative churches, and our current state of affairs in America. You can find more information about Aaron on his <a href="https://aaronvanvoorhis.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">website</a> and his church’s website <a href="https://centralavenuechurch.org/about/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Connect up with us on Facebook or Twitter and let us know what you think about this episode and previous iterations of the show.

Aaron van Voorhis | Praxis & the Death of God

Out of light comes darkness in the infinite play of destructivity. What was once whole has now become incomplete, a new de-creation of death-in-life. We want to hold onto the very fabric of living and beauty without realizing that each moment slips away, creating space for something new to emerge. It is this space of emergence which we find how meaning is made, through the constructs of destruction. This all might sound a bit dark, and that is the point. Without the serpent there would be no Fall, hence no redemption. Necropsychoanalysis does not have room for a savior, not even in the form of the analyst, though. One could say that it is a process of becoming attuned to dying, that life is miserable and meaningless, a dark cavern with infinite depths. Instead of analysis leading the subject outside of the world of shadows into the daylight of freedom, necropsychoanalysts seem to be co-developers of a deeper tread into darkness, the lightless plunge further into modes of despair. I’m not sure what to make of this, though. On the one hand, hasn’t the world seen enough of messiahs? Maybe. However, the principle of developing coping mechanisms is a healthy step when confronted with the evidence that our illusions enslave us to forms of reality which create modes of destruction. I really appreciated Julie’s thoughtfulness and her pushback towards clarity. Julie Reshe is a necropsychoanalyst with a private practice that can be accessed through her website: https://www.drjuliereshe.com/. She is also professor of philosophy and director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Center for Advanced Studies: https://thegcas.org/.

Out of light comes darkness in the infinite play of destructivity. What was once whole has now become incomplete, a new de-creation of death-in-life. We want to hold onto the very fabric of living and beauty without realizing that each moment slips away, creating space for something new to emerge. It is this space of emergence which we find how meaning is made, through the constructs of destruction. This all might sound a bit dark, and that is the point. Without the serpent there would be no Fall, hence no redemption. Necropsychoanalysis does not have room for a savior, not even in the form of the analyst, though. One could say that it is a process of becoming attuned to dying, that life is miserable and meaningless, a dark cavern with infinite depths. Instead of analysis leading the subject outside of the world of shadows into the daylight of freedom, necropsychoanalysts seem to be co-developers of a deeper tread into darkness, the lightless plunge further into modes of despair. I’m not sure what to make of this, though. On the one hand, hasn’t the world seen enough of messiahs? Maybe. However, the principle of developing coping mechanisms is a healthy step when confronted with the evidence that our illusions enslave us to forms of reality which create modes of destruction. I really appreciated Julie’s thoughtfulness and her pushback towards clarity. Julie Reshe is a necropsychoanalyst with a private practice that can be accessed through her website: <a href="https://www.drjuliereshe.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.drjuliereshe.com/</a>. She is also professor of philosophy and director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Center for Advanced Studies: <a href="https://thegcas.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thegcas.org/</a>.

Julie Reshe | Necropsychoanalysis

Jack Caputo

Barry Taylor talk to Jack Caputo about Jacques Derrida as part of his Patreon series Theology After... Other conversation partners in this series has been Peter Rollins, Peter Sjöstedt-H and Josef Gustafsson. You can find Barry's Patreon page and listen to the other episodes at https://www.patreon.com/barrytaylor

Barry Taylor talk to Jack Caputo about Jacques Derrida as part of his Patreon series Theology After... Other conversation partners in this series has been Peter Rollins, Peter Sjöstedt-H and Josef Gustafsson. You can find Barry's Patreon page and listen to the other episodes at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/barrytaylor" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/barrytaylor</a>

Theology After Derrida | Jack Caputo

In this episode, Jake Given and Matt Baker speak with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, about goats, metaphysics, science, Freud, Spinoza, panpsychism, and so on. Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University; core faculty in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; and affiliated faculty in the Science and Society Program. She holds a B.A. in Religion and English from Williams College, an M.Phil. in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Columbia University. Her areas of research include continental philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, science and religion, and the history and philosophy of physics, ecology, and cosmology. She is the author of Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (2009) Worlds without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (2014), and  Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (forthcoming). Music by  Adrian Romero

In this episode, Jake Given and Matt Baker speak with <a href="http://mrubenstein.faculty.wesleyan.edu/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Mary-Jane Rubenstein</a>, about goats, metaphysics, science, Freud, Spinoza, panpsychism, and so on. Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University; core faculty in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; and affiliated faculty in the Science and Society Program. She holds a B.A. in Religion and English from Williams College, an M.Phil. in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Columbia University. Her areas of research include continental philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, science and religion, and the history and philosophy of physics, ecology, and cosmology. She is the author of <a href="http://www.maryjanerubenstein.com/strange-wonder/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe</a> (2009) <a href="http://www.maryjanerubenstein.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Worlds without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse</a> (2014), and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pantheologies-Worlds-Monsters-Mary-Jane-Rubenstein/dp/023118946X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1534948464&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=gods+worlds+monsters+mary" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (forthcoming).</a> Music by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adroneinthelife?fb_dtsg_ag=AdyK3H0XbT7tmhb97h3gfHXL9xA7VEh6Ss1I4l5mhgMOmw%3AAdyq_iGuuM5gS1tOA1m3SGc7PDmTKr3HxNjKrWqUoBSEUg" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Adrian Romero</a>

Mary-Jane Rubenstein | Gods, Worlds, Monsters

Jeff Hood

In this episode of TCM Preston Price speaks with Jeff Hood who is a Baptist pastor, theologian, and activist in the Texas area.  Music by Adrian Romero

In this episode of TCM Preston Price speaks with <a href="http://revjeffhood.com/me/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Jeff Hood</a> who is a Baptist pastor, theologian, and activist in the Texas area.  Music by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adroneinthelife" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Adrian Romero</a>

Jeff Hood | Executing Justice

Philip Clayton

In this TCM mini-episode you’ll hear a very short talk given by Philip Clayton last November as part of the New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking seminar at AAR in Boston. You’ll also hear brief responses and questions from  Karen Brayand Paul Carr. Philip Clayton is the Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theologyin Claremont, California. Clayton has taught or held research professorships at Williams College, California State University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, and the University of Munich. His research focuses on biological emergence, religion and science, process studies, and contemporary issues in ecology, religion, and ethics. He is the recipient of multiple research grants and international lectureships, as well as the author of numerous books, including  The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, Faith(2011);  Religion and Science: The Basics(2011);  Transforming Christian Theology: For Church and Society(2009); and  In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World(2009). He also edited  The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science(2006). In books and lectures, Clayton works to formulate constructive theological responses to developments in contemporary science and philosophy. He has also been a leading advocate for comparative theology and the internationalization of the science-religion dialogue. As P.I. of the “Science and the Spiritual Quest” program and as Provost of a multi-faith university, he worked to expand these fields to include Muslim and Jewish scholars, the Dharma traditions of India, and the religious traditions of Southeast Asia.

In this TCM mini-episode you’ll hear a very short talk given by Philip Clayton last November as part of the New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking seminar at AAR in Boston. You’ll also hear brief responses and questions from <a href="https://www.westarinstitute.org/membership/westar-fellows/fellows-directory/karen-bray/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Karen Bray</a>and <a href="http://mirrorofnature.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Carr.</a> Philip Clayton is the Ingraham Professor at <a href="http://www.cst.edu/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Claremont School of Theology</a>in Claremont, California. Clayton has taught or held research professorships at Williams College, California State University, Harvard University, Cambridge University, and the University of Munich. His research focuses on biological emergence, religion and science, process studies, and contemporary issues in ecology, religion, and ethics. He is the recipient of multiple research grants and international lectureships, as well as the author of numerous books, including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Predicament-Belief-Science-Philosophy-Faith/dp/019969527X/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, Faith</a>(2011); <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Science-Basics-Philip-Clayton/dp/0415598567/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Religion and Science: The Basics</a>(2011); <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Christian-Theology-Church-Society/dp/0800696999/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> Transforming Christian Theology: For Church and Society</a>(2009); and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Quest-Freedom-Emergence-Frankfurt-Naturwissenschaft/dp/3525569866/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World</a>(2009). He also edited <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Religion-Science-Handbooks-Theology/dp/0199543658/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science</a>(2006). In books and lectures, Clayton works to formulate constructive theological responses to developments in contemporary science and philosophy. He has also been a leading advocate for comparative theology and the internationalization of the science-religion dialogue. As P.I. of the “Science and the Spiritual Quest” program and as Provost of a multi-faith university, he worked to expand these fields to include Muslim and Jewish scholars, the Dharma traditions of India, and the religious traditions of Southeast Asia.

Philip Clayton | Planetary Ethics

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Tripp Fuller

Tripp Fuller talks to Josef about his new book Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic...Or Awesome! As the title suggests, the conversation centers on Jesus and Tripp explains why the crazy notion that God was revealed in a first-century homeless Jew is not only relevant but also freaking good news for the whole world. We highly recommend you to buy the book!

Tripp Fuller talks to Josef about his new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Homebrewed-Christianity-Guide-Jesus-Lunatic/dp/1451499574/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic...Or Awesome!</a> As the title suggests, the conversation centers on Jesus and Tripp explains why the crazy notion that God was revealed in a first-century homeless Jew is not only relevant but also freaking good news for the whole world. We highly recommend you to buy the book!

Tripp Fuller | Jesus - Lord, Liar, Lunatic... Or Freaking Awesome!

Kester Brewin

In this episode of Freestyle Christianity you will get to listen to a talk given by Kester Brewin at the festival Wake in Belfast. The subject of Kester's talk was his recently published book Getting High: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Dream of Flight. We are all born flightless, every one. After so many thousands of years each of us still drops into the world smooth-skinned and featherless.' Why have we never been content to keep our feet on the ground? In the 1960s this desire to get high exploded with the LSD counterculture and the Apollo missions. In this unique and dazzling book, acclaimed author Kester Brewin (MUTINY / AFTER MAGIC) explores the history of the human quest for transcendence, and how, following a family tragedy, it blighted his own life. Drawing on a huge cast of characters from the Montgolfier brothers to Renaissance artists, Hells Angels, astronauts, The Beatles, Gonzo journalists and dreaming hippies, GETTING HIGH is a wild trip into the ancient dream of flight, soaring through shamanic ritual, enlightenment science and punching a hole in what we think the 1960s was all about. Interwoven in all of this is Brewin's own story. Growing up in a mining village in Yorkshire, his father was the local vicar, the man tasked with lifting this subterranean community each Sunday and offer it a vision of the above. But this pressure to open heaven has terrible consequences for the family, and a tragic illness sends each of them flying. Skilfully linking ancient history, the story of the 1960s and his own battles with the yearning to 'get high,' this is an important and timely book with an urgent message about religion, the promises of technology, and our need to keep our feet on the ground.

In this episode of Freestyle Christianity you will get to listen to a talk given by <a href="http://www.kesterbrewin.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kester Brewin</a> at the festival Wake in Belfast. The subject of Kester's talk was his recently published book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-High-Savage-Journey-Flight/dp/0993562817" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Getting High: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Dream of Flight</a>. We are all born flightless, every one. After so many thousands of years each of us still drops into the world smooth-skinned and featherless.' Why have we never been content to keep our feet on the ground? In the 1960s this desire to get high exploded with the LSD counterculture and the Apollo missions. In this unique and dazzling book, acclaimed author Kester Brewin (MUTINY / AFTER MAGIC) explores the history of the human quest for transcendence, and how, following a family tragedy, it blighted his own life. Drawing on a huge cast of characters from the Montgolfier brothers to Renaissance artists, Hells Angels, astronauts, The Beatles, Gonzo journalists and dreaming hippies, GETTING HIGH is a wild trip into the ancient dream of flight, soaring through shamanic ritual, enlightenment science and punching a hole in what we think the 1960s was all about. Interwoven in all of this is Brewin's own story. Growing up in a mining village in Yorkshire, his father was the local vicar, the man tasked with lifting this subterranean community each Sunday and offer it a vision of the above. But this pressure to open heaven has terrible consequences for the family, and a tragic illness sends each of them flying. Skilfully linking ancient history, the story of the 1960s and his own battles with the yearning to 'get high,' this is an important and timely book with an urgent message about religion, the promises of technology, and our need to keep our feet on the ground.

Kester Brewin | A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Dream of Flight

Andreas Engh Seland

In this episode, Joel talks with Andreas Engh Seland, phd candidate in philosophy of religion at Lund University, Sweden. Writing on Sören Kierkegaard's book on the faith of Abraham, Fear and Trembling, Seland develops a innovative concept of "suspense" as a means of explicating a tricky text full of repetitions, paradoxes and references to the philosophy of Hegel.

In this episode, Joel talks with <a href="https://www.google.se/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi-vLuc6IjNAhXrApoKHRXMAzkQFggdMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teol.lu.se%2Fperson%2FAndreasSeland%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNGN4dnDkbCHs0ncRHQgB9LzAGpFCw&amp;sig2=e7mUHfVjCbzNNVYwmLwKRw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Andreas Engh Seland</a>, phd candidate in philosophy of religion at Lund University, Sweden. Writing on Sören Kierkegaard's book on the faith of Abraham, Fear and Trembling, Seland develops a innovative concept of "suspense" as a means of explicating a tricky text full of repetitions, paradoxes and references to the philosophy of Hegel.

Andreas Engh Seland | Divine Suspense in Fear & Trembling

Jeffrey Robbins

Josef talks to theologian Jeffrey Robbins about postsecularism, democracy, movements of resistance, the American election, trauma, radical theology and much more. Support The Catacombic Machine: www.patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine

Josef talks to theologian Jeffrey Robbins about postsecularism, democracy, movements of resistance, the American election, trauma, radical theology and much more. Support The Catacombic Machine: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine</a>

Jeffrey Robbins | Radical Democracy and Political Theology

John Swinton

In this episode, we revisit a catacomb introduced to the podcast by our friend Timothy Chilvers, who together with David leads the conversation with John Swinton.

In this episode, we revisit a catacomb introduced to the podcast by our friend Timothy Chilvers, who together with David leads the conversation with John Swinton.

John Swinton | Disability Theology

In this two-part episode of The Catacombic Machine we hear from Catherine Keller who was the guest at a recent live event hosted by Brew Theology, NJ. She discusses her book  On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process, as well as several other things. Cheers!

In this two-part episode of The Catacombic Machine we hear from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Keller_(theologian)" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Catherine Keller</a> who was the guest at a recent live event hosted by <a href="http://www.brewtheology.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Brew Theology</a>, NJ. She discusses her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Discerning-Divinity-Process/dp/0800662768/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1525887174&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=on+the+mystery+catherine+keller" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process</a>, as well as several other things. Cheers!

Catherine Keller | PART 1 | Un/becoming Entanglements: BT-TCM Collab 

Peter Rollins

Josef talked to philosopher and theologian Peter Rollins about his latest book, The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion &amp; the Discovery of Faith. The death of God, psychoanalysis and the future of Christianity are just a handfull of themes mentioned in this great podcast. In other words, Josef and Peter discussed just the right theological topics for good friday.

Josef talked to philosopher and theologian <a href="http://peterrollins.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter Rollins</a> about his latest book, <a href="https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/the-divine-magician-the-disappearance-of-religion-and-the-discovery-of-faith-9781451609042" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion &amp; the Discovery of Faith</a>. The death of God, psychoanalysis and the future of Christianity are just a handfull of themes mentioned in this great podcast. In other words, Josef and Peter discussed just the right theological topics for good friday.

Peter Rollins | The Divine Magician [ENG]

Daniel Colucciello Barber

Josef talks to Daniel Colucciello Barber who is the author of Deleuze and the Naming of God: Post-Secularism and the Future of Immanence (Edinburgh UP, 2014) and On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity (Cascade, 2011), as well as a co-author (with Alexander Galloway, Nicola Masciandaro, and Eugene Thacker) of Dark Nights of the Universe (2013). He received his PhD from Duke University, where he worked in Religious Studies and the Program in Literature. His work – which has appeared in various journals – concerns the intersections between continental philosophy, race, religion, queer theory, secularism, and media. (Source: https://www.ici-berlin.org/profile/barber/)

Josef talks to Daniel Colucciello Barber who is the author of Deleuze and the Naming of God: Post-Secularism and the Future of Immanence (Edinburgh UP, 2014) and On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity (Cascade, 2011), as well as a co-author (with Alexander Galloway, Nicola Masciandaro, and Eugene Thacker) of Dark Nights of the Universe (2013). He received his PhD from Duke University, where he worked in Religious Studies and the Program in Literature. His work – which has appeared in various journals – concerns the intersections between continental philosophy, race, religion, queer theory, secularism, and media. (Source: <a href="https://www.ici-berlin.org/profile/barber/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ici-berlin.org/profile/barber/</a>)

Daniel Colucciello Barber | Immanence, Deleuze and Ethics [ENG]

In this episode Josef talks to Jeffrey Robbins about radical theology--its lineage and its coming of age. The conversation moves from Jeff's jazz like, deleuzian understanding of difference and repetition to his use of Catherine Malabou's signature concept "plasticity," which he employs when talking about radical onto-theology, with a difference. Jeff is a brilliant thinker and a great inspiration for our Freestyle project so we hope that you will enjoy listening to what he has to say.

In this episode Josef talks to Jeffrey Robbins about radical theology--its lineage and its coming of age. The conversation moves from Jeff's jazz like, deleuzian understanding of difference and repetition to his use of Catherine Malabou's signature concept "plasticity," which he employs when talking about radical onto-theology, with a difference. Jeff is a brilliant thinker and a great inspiration for our Freestyle project so we hope that you will enjoy listening to what he has to say.

Jeffrey Robbins | Radical Theology Come Of Age

Tad DeLay

In the season finale of The Catacombic Machine, Josef talks to Tad DeLay about his recently published book The Cynic and the Fool: The Unconscious in Theology &amp; Politics.

In the season finale of The Catacombic Machine, Josef talks to Tad DeLay about his recently published book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cynic-Fool-Unconscious-Theology-Politics-ebook/dp/B0733VD5D8/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1498350697&amp;ref_=tmm_kin_title_0&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Cynic and the Fool: The Unconscious in Theology &amp; Politics</a>.

Tad DeLay | The Cynic and the Fool

In this episode Josef speaks to John D. Caputo who is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University.

In this episode Josef speaks to John D. Caputo who is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University.

Jack Caputo | God, Prayer and The Event [ENG]

Catherine Keller | PART 2 | Un/becoming Entanglements: BT-TCM Collab 

Jordan Miller

In this episode of The Catacombic Machine Podcast, Josef speaks to theologian Jordan Miller about his new (so far unpublished) book Resisting Theology, Furious Hope. Join Barry Taylor and Josef in Utrecht, Holland: Blossom030 en Geestdrift present: Radical Theology And mark down July 1 in the calendar for The Forest Interface. Finally, support The Catacombic Machine on Patreon.

In this episode of The Catacombic Machine Podcast, Josef speaks to theologian Jordan Miller about his new (so far unpublished) book Resisting Theology, Furious Hope. Join Barry Taylor and Josef in Utrecht, Holland: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/645191239015182/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blossom030 en Geestdrift present: Radical Theology</a> And mark down July 1 in the calendar for <a href="http://www.subsecular.com/2017/04/30/subsecular-arts-the-forest-interface/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Forest Interface</a>. Finally, support The Catacombic Machine on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a>.

Jordan Miller | Resisting Theology, Furious Hope

Josef talks to Aaron Van Voorhies about his background as a fundamentalist Christian and his move towards radical theology. Aaron is not only a radical theologian, he is also a pastor, which is an interesting combination. And he has written a book: A Survival Guide for Heretics.

Josef talks to Aaron Van Voorhies about his background as a fundamentalist Christian and his move towards radical theology. Aaron is not only a radical theologian, he is also a pastor, which is an interesting combination. And he has written a book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&amp;text=Aaron+Van+Voorhis&amp;search-alias=books&amp;field-author=Aaron+Van+Voorhis&amp;sort=relevancerank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Survival Guide for Heretics</a>.

Aaron Van Voorhis | A Survival Guide for Heretics

Bart Campolo

Josef talks to secular humanist chaplain Bart Campolo. Bart has recently published a new book together with his father Tony Campolo: Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son. There is also a fresh documentary out about Bart and Tony, made by Belfast filmmaker John Wright: Far From The Tree. In the episode Bart mentions a recent article about him in The New York Times, written by Mark Oppenheimer: The Evangelical Scion Who Stopped Believing. Don't forget to buy your tickets to the Katakomb Event in Gothenburg April 21-22: Katakomb.info, and if you're interested in joining Josef and Barry Taylor in Utrecht, Holland, here's information for you: Blossom030 en Geestdrift present. Support The Catacombic Machine at Patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine.

Josef talks to secular humanist chaplain Bart Campolo. Bart has recently published a new book together with his father Tony Campolo: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-Left-Stayed-Conversations-Christianity/dp/0062415379/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1492273923&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=why+i+left+why+i+stayed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son</a>. There is also a fresh documentary out about Bart and Tony, made by Belfast filmmaker John Wright: <a href="https://vimeo.com/157533280" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Far From The Tree</a>. In the episode Bart mentions a recent article about him in The New York Times, written by Mark Oppenheimer: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/magazine/the-evangelical-scion-who-stopped-believing.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Evangelical Scion Who Stopped Believing</a>. Don't forget to buy your tickets to the Katakomb Event in Gothenburg April 21-22: <a href="http://www.katakomb.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Katakomb.info</a>, and if you're interested in joining Josef and Barry Taylor in Utrecht, Holland, here's information for you: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/645191239015182/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blossom030 en Geestdrift present</a>. Support The Catacombic Machine at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine</a>.

Bart Campolo | Far From The Tree

Alexander Bard is an Internet sociologist, a cyber philosopher, and the co-author of the Futurica Trilogy, and Syntheism: Creating God In The Internet Age. In this episode of Freestyle Christianity Podcast, Alexander speaks to Josef about the Internet revolution and our need for a proper metaphysics for the Internet age.

Alexander Bard is an Internet sociologist, a cyber philosopher, and the co-author of the Futurica Trilogy, and Syntheism: Creating God In The Internet Age. In this episode of Freestyle Christianity Podcast, Alexander speaks to Josef about the Internet revolution and our need for a proper metaphysics for the Internet age.

Alexander Bard | Syntheism – Creating God In The Internet Age

Christopher Rodkey

In this episode of TCM, Preston Price and Matt Baker speak with Christopher Rodkey, United Church of Christ pastor and religious educator, professor, and author. He is pastor of St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Penn State York, York College of Pennsylvania, and Lexington Theological Seminary. You can check out his author page on Amazon  here. The Global Center for Advanced Studies is hosting a 3 part live and interactive Seminar on Deleuze: Dismantling Reactive Institutions with Deleuze: Theory and Practice, that will be led by Keith Faulkner. If you enroll by Sunday March 11th and mention "thecatacombicmachine" you can receive a 20% discount on the seminar. For details email . Sign up here. Additional details here. Intro In the popular 1984 film The Neverending Story, the protagonist, a young boy of around twelve years old named Bastian is chased by a group of bullies and manages to escape his pursuers by quickly ducking into a bookstore. Inside, he discovers an oversized leather-bound book, into the cover of which is set a large occultish-looking medallion composed of twin interlocking serpents. Bastian seizes this book and later hides himself in an attic where he begins to read aloud. We are transported to a fantastic world, named somewhat unimaginatively “Fantasia” wherein we encounter a slew of creatures: gnomes, dragons, giant tortoises, characters who are made of rock, and so on; all of whom we soon discover are threatened by an amorphous and terrifying force called the “Nothing”. The Nothing is an abstract concept represented on-screen as a thrashing storm that engulfs entire sections of Fantasia in a black wave of despair that drains life of joy and hope before rendering it meaningless by wiping clear the entire horizon, leaving nothing in its wake. Although this threatening force might be most accurately described as the the possibility of non-existence - and indeed, one New York Times reviewer wrote that the film sounded to him like “The Pre-Teenager's Guide to Existentialism,” - one may still hear echoes of Nietzsche’s well-known parable in which the madman leaps into the marketplace pronouncing the death of God, asking “who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing?” The seriousness of the threat notwithstanding, we should perhaps not worry too long given the title of the film. The story never ends, and in fact, its success spawned a series of painfully unfortunate sequels. And so it is with Christianity. As the film progresses, Atreyu, Bastian’s co-protagonist approaches the Southern Oracle, colossal twin sphinxes, beyond which he must pass in order to complete his quest. It is perhaps of some interest to note the Sphinx is typically depicted in legend as a guardian figure placed before a threshold or passage. Often found in pairs, they communicate to the uninitiated that beyond lies knowledge forbidden to all but those few deemed worthy, and that those who would dare transgress this limit, do so under the threat of death. And so, in Atreyu’s footsteps we approach the Oracle with a mixture of wonder and terror. With each terrifying step these monstrous figures appear to grow larger before us, their wings stretching out to overtake the sky. With intensity we scan their solemnly closed eyes, for any indication they might open and destroy us with their deathly gaze. Were we to allow our imaginations at this point to wander freely, we might imagine these titanic twin figures as Alpha and Omega, first and final cause, standing in both eternal accord and opposition. Is not their very polarity that which secures the intelligibility of the world? So conceived, these guardians stand as bookends in the never-ending story of Christianity and the West. The passage they guard is thus a book, one that even now opens before us, its opening made possible by its own foreclosure. In a burst of panic, we see the slit of the sphinxes eyes slowly open, and a great light streaming forth from these eyes. For but a brief moment we consider turning to flee, but it is already too late. We find ourselves transfixed, bound by this aporia even as we seek safe passage beyond its limit. Between the intersecting gaze of these beasts, we are now forced to answer their riddle: how does a line become a circle? The answer is in the book. Here is the convergence of identity, difference, and dialectic, the sign of the phoenix, the passage of Gods eternally crucified and resurrected where the death of God appears as merely the descending crest of an oscillating wave-function of the Logos. Hence the closure of the book is at once the possibility of its opening such that the line of history bends ever inward into an infinitely spiraling circuit.   Suggesting that the heart of the Western tradition is indeed a Christian heart, Clayton Crockett in his book on political theology quotes Jean-Luc Nancy who writes, “The only thing that can be actual is an atheism that contemplates the reality of its Christian origins”. He then points our attention even further toward this dilemma with the provocative question: “can Christianity be deconstructed, or is it deconstruction itself, and as such - undeconstructable?” Mary Daly provides language that, although employed in a different context, seems nonetheless appropriate here. “The wheel of “renewal”, she writes, “turns full circle. Those caught in its spokes, broken and “restored,” re-turn to embrace the very cause of their breakdown.” For those outside the walls of the Church, the language of Christianity may, as Christopher Rodkey suggests, amount to nothing, and for them this nothingness might rightly be considered a form of non-existence. We recall that in the film, it is the image of the storm that stands in for the Nothing. More malevolent than any mere Nothingness however, the more insidious threat, as Nietzsche knew, is the maelstrom of signs, images, and representations which when taken altogether in the spirit of resentment, brings about Christianity’s own ultimate devaluation.   Growing weary of such navel-gazing, one may be tempted to intervene here, asking ‘and what of the other’? It may certainly be true as Charles Winquist writes, that “epistemic undecidability does not prevent or even inhibit ethical decidability,” but we may still be left reeling from the aforementioned problematic. Indeed, “Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing?” With these questions in mind, should we not simply declare along with Levinas, ethics as first philosophy? Perhaps, yes. Although we may at the same time hear another voice come echoing down from the mountain. “Unhappy do I call all those who have only one choice: either to become evil beasts, or evil beast-tamers. Amongst such would I not build my tabernacle,” so declares Zarathustra. But let us leave it there.  In the ongoing quest for a “religion without religion”, we may discover as well a “politics beyond politics” such that the two crystallize into altogether new formations freed from the allure of reactive forces, where our “yes” may finally escape the gravitation of “no”. Perhaps the alighting of this yes-beyond-no must arrive finally in the language of madmen speaking with tongues of fire.

In this episode of TCM, Preston Price and Matt Baker speak with Christopher Rodkey, United Church of Christ pastor and religious educator, professor, and author. He is pastor of St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Penn State York, York College of Pennsylvania, and Lexington Theological Seminary. You can check out his author page on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Christopher-D.-Rodkey/e/B0077V8XHW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1520278000&amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> here.</a> <a href="https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Global Center for Advanced Studies</a> is hosting a 3 part live and interactive Seminar on Deleuze: Dismantling Reactive Institutions with Deleuze: Theory and Practice, that will be led by Keith Faulkner. If you enroll by Sunday March 11th and mention "thecatacombicmachine" you can receive a 20% discount on the seminar. For details email <a href="mailto:contact@gcas.ie" rel="noopener">. Sign up </a><a href="https://thegcas.org/new-products/deleuze-seminar" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Additional details <a href="https://thegcas.org/deleuze-seminar-theory-practice/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Intro In the popular 1984 film The Neverending Story, the protagonist, a young boy of around twelve years old named Bastian is chased by a group of bullies and manages to escape his pursuers by quickly ducking into a bookstore. Inside, he discovers an oversized leather-bound book, into the cover of which is set a large occultish-looking medallion composed of twin interlocking serpents. Bastian seizes this book and later hides himself in an attic where he begins to read aloud. We are transported to a fantastic world, named somewhat unimaginatively “Fantasia” wherein we encounter a slew of creatures: gnomes, dragons, giant tortoises, characters who are made of rock, and so on; all of whom we soon discover are threatened by an amorphous and terrifying force called the “Nothing”. The Nothing is an abstract concept represented on-screen as a thrashing storm that engulfs entire sections of Fantasia in a black wave of despair that drains life of joy and hope before rendering it meaningless by wiping clear the entire horizon, leaving nothing in its wake. Although this threatening force might be most accurately described as the the possibility of non-existence - and indeed, one New York Times reviewer wrote that the film sounded to him like “The Pre-Teenager's Guide to Existentialism,” - one may still hear echoes of Nietzsche’s well-known parable in which the madman leaps into the marketplace pronouncing the death of God, asking “who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing?” The seriousness of the threat notwithstanding, we should perhaps not worry too long given the title of the film. The story never ends, and in fact, its success spawned a series of painfully unfortunate sequels. And so it is with Christianity. As the film progresses, Atreyu, Bastian’s co-protagonist approaches the Southern Oracle, colossal twin sphinxes, beyond which he must pass in order to complete his quest. It is perhaps of some interest to note the Sphinx is typically depicted in legend as a guardian figure placed before a threshold or passage. Often found in pairs, they communicate to the uninitiated that beyond lies knowledge forbidden to all but those few deemed worthy, and that those who would dare transgress this limit, do so under the threat of death. And so, in Atreyu’s footsteps we approach the Oracle with a mixture of wonder and terror. With each terrifying step these monstrous figures appear to grow larger before us, their wings stretching out to overtake the sky. With intensity we scan their solemnly closed eyes, for any indication they might open and destroy us with their deathly gaze. Were we to allow our imaginations at this point to wander freely, we might imagine these titanic twin figures as Alpha and Omega, first and final cause, standing in both eternal accord and opposition. Is not their very polarity that which secures the intelligibility of the world? So conceived, these guardians stand as bookends in the never-ending story of Christianity and the West. The passage they guard is thus a book, one that even now opens before us, its opening made possible by its own foreclosure. In a burst of panic, we see the slit of the sphinxes eyes slowly open, and a great light streaming forth from these eyes. For but a brief moment we consider turning to flee, but it is already too late. We find ourselves transfixed, bound by this aporia even as we seek safe passage beyond its limit. Between the intersecting gaze of these beasts, we are now forced to answer their riddle: how does a line become a circle? The answer is in the book. Here is the convergence of identity, difference, and dialectic, the sign of the phoenix, the passage of Gods eternally crucified and resurrected where the death of God appears as merely the descending crest of an oscillating wave-function of the Logos. Hence the closure of the book is at once the possibility of its opening such that the line of history bends ever inward into an infinitely spiraling circuit.   Suggesting that the heart of the Western tradition is indeed a Christian heart, Clayton Crockett in his book on political theology quotes Jean-Luc Nancy who writes, “The only thing that can be actual is an atheism that contemplates the reality of its Christian origins”. He then points our attention even further toward this dilemma with the provocative question: “can Christianity be deconstructed, or is it deconstruction itself, and as such - undeconstructable?” Mary Daly provides language that, although employed in a different context, seems nonetheless appropriate here. “The wheel of “renewal”, she writes, “turns full circle. Those caught in its spokes, broken and “restored,” re-turn to embrace the very cause of their breakdown.” For those outside the walls of the Church, the language of Christianity may, as Christopher Rodkey suggests, amount to nothing, and for them this nothingness might rightly be considered a form of non-existence. We recall that in the film, it is the image of the storm that stands in for the Nothing. More malevolent than any mere Nothingness however, the more insidious threat, as Nietzsche knew, is the maelstrom of signs, images, and representations which when taken altogether in the spirit of resentment, brings about Christianity’s own ultimate devaluation.   Growing weary of such navel-gazing, one may be tempted to intervene here, asking ‘and what of the other’? It may certainly be true as Charles Winquist writes, that “epistemic undecidability does not prevent or even inhibit ethical decidability,” but we may still be left reeling from the aforementioned problematic. Indeed, “Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing?” With these questions in mind, should we not simply declare along with Levinas, ethics as first philosophy? Perhaps, yes. Although we may at the same time hear another voice come echoing down from the mountain. “Unhappy do I call all those who have only one choice: either to become evil beasts, or evil beast-tamers. Amongst such would I not build my tabernacle,” so declares Zarathustra. But let us leave it there. In the ongoing quest for a “religion without religion”, we may discover as well a “politics beyond politics” such that the two crystallize into altogether new formations freed from the allure of reactive forces, where our “yes” may finally escape the gravitation of “no”. Perhaps the alighting of this yes-beyond-no must arrive finally in the language of madmen speaking with tongues of fire.

Christopher Rodkey | The Madman

It has been noted that in the age of global capitalism virtually everything is for sale. Nothing lies outside of the reach of the market. Today, education is increasingly instrumental, a means to an end known as the so-called “good life.” Squeezed between the demands of capital and budgetary shortfalls, the global priests of education in turn demand ever greater sacrifices from students such that universities that were once sites for the production of knowledge aimed toward the common good, have now become territories of capitalist reproduction which has led to the creation of an entire generation of indoctrinated, indentured, and thus largely depoliticized subjects.  We live in an age where the Sophists are the chief philosophers, where the Socratic injunction to “know thyself” is transposed such that the means by which we now make ourselves known is a twin inscription upon a capitalist surface. It is at once prescription and postscript whereby desire congeals in collective ritual consumption, as well as one’s marking of various promissory notes which signal an individual’s desire for absorption within the capitalist matrix. We have misplaced our hope into an asymmetrical covenant with an abstraction that cannot make good on its promises. Thus for those coming under the weight of massive student-debt, these promises and hopes have begun to ring hollow. The promise of the good life, it seems, does not come without a significant price tag. The true cost becomes more apparent with each decade that passes, for many persisting into old age until finally receiving redemption in the form of a new tag; one that hangs solemnly from the naked toe. The revolution Marx envisioned will likely never come. Indeed, where today are the proletariat? The vanguards? Are they the ones we see smashing windows, punching nazis, or wearing pussy-hats? Perhaps revolution has always hidden itself in the modest form of a seed. Today, strategies aimed toward authentic change must extend beyond the tiresome and endless barrage of criticism which often functions to merely reconstitute the world-as-it-is. Education must now begin with the question of one’s own willing participation in false consciousness. This is at once a political and a spiritual discipline. It is from here that we might begin the task of imagining a new collective paradigm. But, this should not be misconstrued as a form of enlightenment, but rather as a form of endarkening, a case of strange and sudden blindness where together we may yet learn to see in the dark, to feel our way forward. A Catacombic ethos resists the commodification of our very souls. When we withdraw from the effort of self-making, from engaging in a hermeneutics of the self ala Foucault, the sign of the skull no longer indicates hope or the possibility of new life, but becomes merely the expression of a ghastly and cartoonish aesthetic where death becomes us. Is it true? Are we unable to imagine another world in light of what we are witnessing today? And must we go it alone, or might we traverse this abyss together? As a subterranean refuge for constructive theology, the catacombs present a horizontal ascent. Not a way out, but a way in. The functional binary between the catacombs and the cathedrals places two paths before us: one, of death-in-life; the other, of life-in-death. ... Coauthored by Preston Price and Matt Baker

It has been noted that in the age of global capitalism virtually everything is for sale. Nothing lies outside of the reach of the market. Today, education is increasingly instrumental, a means to an end known as the so-called “good life.” Squeezed between the demands of capital and budgetary shortfalls, the global priests of education in turn demand ever greater sacrifices from students such that universities that were once sites for the production of knowledge aimed toward the common good, have now become territories of capitalist reproduction which has led to the creation of an entire generation of indoctrinated, indentured, and thus largely depoliticized subjects.  We live in an age where the Sophists are the chief philosophers, where the Socratic injunction to “know thyself” is transposed such that the means by which we now make ourselves known is a twin inscription upon a capitalist surface. It is at once prescription and postscript whereby desire congeals in collective ritual consumption, as well as one’s marking of various promissory notes which signal an individual’s desire for absorption within the capitalist matrix. We have misplaced our hope into an asymmetrical covenant with an abstraction that cannot make good on its promises. Thus for those coming under the weight of massive student-debt, these promises and hopes have begun to ring hollow. The promise of the good life, it seems, does not come without a significant price tag. The true cost becomes more apparent with each decade that passes, for many persisting into old age until finally receiving redemption in the form of a new tag; one that hangs solemnly from the naked toe. The revolution Marx envisioned will likely never come. Indeed, where today are the proletariat? The vanguards? Are they the ones we see smashing windows, punching nazis, or wearing pussy-hats? Perhaps revolution has always hidden itself in the modest form of a seed. Today, strategies aimed toward authentic change must extend beyond the tiresome and endless barrage of criticism which often functions to merely reconstitute the world-as-it-is. Education must now begin with the question of one’s own willing participation in false consciousness. This is at once a political and a spiritual discipline. It is from here that we might begin the task of imagining a new collective paradigm. But, this should not be misconstrued as a form of enlightenment, but rather as a form of endarkening, a case of strange and sudden blindness where together we may yet learn to see in the dark, to feel our way forward. A Catacombic ethos resists the commodification of our very souls. When we withdraw from the effort of self-making, from engaging in a hermeneutics of the self ala Foucault, the sign of the skull no longer indicates hope or the possibility of new life, but becomes merely the expression of a ghastly and cartoonish aesthetic where death becomes us. Is it true? Are we unable to imagine another world in light of what we are witnessing today? And must we go it alone, or might we traverse this abyss together? As a subterranean refuge for constructive theology, the catacombs present a horizontal ascent. Not a way out, but a way in. The functional binary between the catacombs and the cathedrals places two paths before us: one, of death-in-life; the other, of life-in-death. ... Coauthored by Preston Price and Matt Baker

Creston Davis | Pedagogy of Hope

Ola Sigurdson

Josef speaks to Ola Sigurdson during the Katakomb Event about Ola's newly published book Heavenly Bodies: Incarnation, the Gaze, and Embodiment in Christian Theology. Support The Catacombic Machine at Patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine

Josef speaks to Ola Sigurdson during the Katakomb Event about Ola's newly published book <a href="http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7166/heavenly-bodies.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heavenly Bodies: Incarnation, the Gaze, and Embodiment in Christian Theology</a>. Support The Catacombic Machine at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/thecatacombicmachine</a>

Ola Sigurdson | Heavenly Bodies

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