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Lilian Barger Responds

Thank you to the blog’s senior editor, L.D. Burnett, for organizing this roundtable and to Mark Edwards, Janine Drake, Paul Croce, and Skylar Ray for taking time out of their own work to read and comment on The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018). It is an honor to have intellectual historians read my work, particularly since I see the field as my home discipline, and it is a pleasure to see my work through fresh eyes. Eyes that both appreciated my attempt at understanding the origins and reverberations of liberation theology Read more

Skylar Ray

January 4, 2019

A Diverse and Complex History

“The theology of the free church, then, I would suggest is a secular theology, that worldly interpretation of the gospel toward which Bonhoeffer was groping during his last days in Read more

Paul Croce

January 3, 2019

Spirituality in the Service of Social Justice

In providing an intellectual history of liberation theology, Lilian Calles Barger operates between and around conventional categories. The book’s title, The World Come of Age online pharmacy buy valtrex no Read more

Janine Giordano Drake

January 2, 2019

The Public Sphere as Sacred Space

In our religious histories of the nineteenth century, we often talk about how the cultural construction of private and public spaces gave rise to the particular formulation of religious and Read more

Mark T. Edwards

January 1, 2019

Kant Sucks!

Reconciled to a secularized world come of age, liberation theologians ushered in a de-privatized religion as a socially energizing force and made a singular American contribution to change in the Read more