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Response to Wrestling with God Symposium

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Cecelia Lynch
August 19, 2021February 1, 2024

I am convinced (unsurprisingly for anyone who has read the book) that ethical wrestling is both crucial for any kind of meaningful life, and frequently tiring.

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Religion, Humanitarianism, and Decolonization

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Emma Tomalin
July 27, 2021

There is a need to broaden approaches to the religion-development nexus and to develop a new conceptual perspective that moves beyond prioritizing the agenda of secular global development institutions and instead critically examines their rhetoric and practices.

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Decolonizing the Practices of Religion in International Relations

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Atalia Omer
July 15, 2021February 1, 2024

Lynch shows that the postsecular discovery of religion does not constitute a departure from the symbiosis of Christianity and secular modernity, but rather represents its perpetuation through other idioms and technologies.

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Christian Ethics and the Purposes of Modernity

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Michael Barnett
July 7, 2021August 3, 2021

What is the core of Christianity and how far can a Christian venture away from the core without risking being disqualified from participation?

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Ethical Precarity and Staying with the Trouble

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Diane L. Moore
June 29, 2021January 27, 2024

Together, Haraway and Lynch invite us into the generative power of confronting and embracing the interdependent dynamism of our existence.

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Introduction to Symposium on Wrestling with God

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Joshua S. Lupo
June 29, 2021February 1, 2024

In thinking both critically and constructively with Christian thinkers from both the past and present, Lynch’s book shows how we might employ critical genealogical methods without succumbing to a cynical and/or fatalistic view of the world.

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