Justice, in other words, is what the metaphysics of presence keeps trying and failing to identify with some set of institutions or principles. Such identification is impossible, because every institution or principle will produce new, unexpected, injustices of its own. Every imaginable utopia will need a social protest movement. Justice is a ghost that can … Continue reading Between Chaos and Order
Theology’s Ghost
To haunt does not mean to be present, and it is necessary to introduce haunting into the very construction of a concept. Of every concept, beginning with the concepts of being and time. That is what we would be calling here a hauntology. Ontology opposes it only in a movement of exorcism. Ontology is a … Continue reading Theology’s Ghost
The Theologian’s Depression
Christianity is not reconciliation with death. It is the revelation of death, and it reveals death because it is the revelation of Life. - Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World There's a dark side of theology. A surrounding darkness that lurks at the boundaries. Often encompassing and despairing, this darkness is ushered and removed. … Continue reading The Theologian’s Depression
Liminal Theology 