Around the traps

• Some poignant autobiographical reflections on the pathology of theology: “I believe I’ve found something out about myself that I’ve always secretly feared: Theology isn’t fundamentally a noble exercise.”
  
• Unhappy booksellers at AAR (things would have been different if I had made it to AAR...)
  
• What makes for an adequate ecclesiology?
  
• Blumenberg and Schmitt
  
• Violence and Christian anarchism. This reminds me of a conversation about pacifism with some Barthian friends at the pub last night: I agreed with them that the world is irreducibly violent – but when I concluded my argument by appealing to “the church” as the inbreaking of peace, I was greeted with a roar of laughter! (I take this to be an indictment not of my ecclesiology but of the church’s apostasy...)
  
• Another new book from Australia’s most prolific scholar
  
• A series of posts on the people of God in the Book of Revelation
  
• A series responding to Nate Kerr’s book
  
• Call for papers: Foucault and St Paul
  
• A short film inspired by one of Tom Waits’ songs
  
• Benedict XVI on religion and culture