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2023-02-17T16:06:07-08:00

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Resentment 5: Unhappy Consciousness

Last updated on: February 17, 2023 at 4:06 pm By Ted Peters

White 'n' woke Progressive Christians risk introjecting their ressentiment to create a moral narcissism in what Hegel would call the "unhappy consciousness." Read more

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2023-11-14T09:04:18-08:00

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Reformation Sunday 2022

Last updated on: November 14, 2023 at 9:04 am By Ted Peters

When we say "justification by faith," which dimension of faith justifies? Belief? Trust? Indwelling of Christ? Read more

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2024-04-30T13:58:34-07:00

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Resentment 4: American Christian Nationalism

Last updated on: April 30, 2024 at 1:58 pm By Ted Peters

Ressintement in white American Christian nationalism sustains both racism and xenophobia Read more

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2024-05-10T16:07:39-07:00

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Resentment 3: Russian Christian Nationalism

Last updated on: May 10, 2024 at 4:07 pm By Ted Peters

Christian nationalism in Russia is top-down and prosecutes international war. Christian nationalism in the United States takes the form of bottom-up disorganized ferment and prosecutes culture war at home. Read more

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2023-07-04T15:15:27-07:00

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Resentment vs Compassion 2: Reparations

Last updated on: July 4, 2023 at 3:15 pm By Ted Peters

Resentment as "ressentiment" sparks flames in the African American demand for reparations, Great Replacement Theory, and Donald Trump's xenophobic rhetoric Read more

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2025-10-24T09:56:02-07:00

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Resentment vs Compassion 1: Ressentiment

Last updated on: October 24, 2025 at 9:56 am By Ted Peters

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Our English term, 'resentment', says simply that when we envy we might be motivated to take revenge. When we turn to the French, 'ressentiment', it gets more complicated. We re-feel a past injustice in such a way that it incites mob spirit. With this term,' we add nuances, connotations, political ideology, scapegoating, and perhaps violence. But, we ask: might there exist a dimension of ressentiment within compassion, where we re-feel what victims of injustice felt? Read more

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2024-05-18T09:17:42-07:00

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What is Public Theology?

Last updated on: May 18, 2024 at 9:17 am By Ted Peters

What is public theology? Public theology is conceived in the church, critically honed in the academy, and offered to the wider culture for the sake of the global common good. Read more

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2023-07-04T20:51:49-07:00

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Moscow Again: The Worst Public Theology

Last updated on: July 4, 2023 at 8:51 pm By Ted Peters

Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, steals precious Christian symbols to scapegoat the people of Ukraine and to justify Russia's war. Read more

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To Eat? Part Seven. Christian Vegetarian?

Last updated on: November 22, 2022 at 2:48 pm By Ted Peters

Christian vegetarianism protects animals first. Insofar as no-kill cultivated meat protects animals and weans the human diet away from meat, it is good. Read more

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2023-08-31T08:22:34-07:00

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To Eat No-Kill Cultivated Meat. Part Six: Catholic?

Last updated on: August 31, 2023 at 8:22 am By Ted Peters

We imagine a world where the vast majority of meat is cultivated, and only a small portion animal-sourced. It would be a far more urban, anthropocentric, and industrialized world than we now live in. Intense intergovernmental cooperation would be required to actually feed the hungry—and it’s not clear to me that the political will to do so is widespread enough. But there’s always hope…. Read more

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