Centering Marginalized Voices

Abstract

“Centering Marginalized Voices” is the second of nine Christian life rhythms explored in the upcoming book tentatively titled Staying Awake: The Gospel for Changemakers (Chalice Press). Author Rev. Tyler Sit explains how his multiethnic, Millennial church plant in South Minneapolis (New City Church, https://GrowNewCity.church), follows Jesus in opposing racism and constructing a diverse community. Staying Awake is written to be lay-accessible and models how pastors can communicate core theological themes in the Gospel.     

Diagnosing Pathogenic Eschatology

In this essay, we explain the function and forms of prophetic Western end-time narratives that take a violent turn. We begin by describing how relatively benign end-time stories function for their adherents by analyzing the book of Daniel. Then, we analyze the end-time prophecy of David Koresh at the height of federal law enforcement pressure on his disciples in order to explain how relatively benign eschatology can take a pathogenic turn. In this pathogenic turn, the false prophet redirects the agency of teleological fulfillment away from God to himself and adherents. Implications for dealing with groups motivated by pathogenic Western end-time narratives are discussed in light of these arguments.     

Silicon Valley,disruption, and the end of uncertainty

ABSTRACT

This paper reflects on the relationship between high-tech disruption narratives and uncertainty. My main argument is that an economic sociology of the future is incomplete without addressing the ‘demonic’ or rather eschatological elements apparent in the promissory twin rhetoric of disruption and inevitability that a number of contemporary technology firms employ. The conjuring up of liberatory high-tech futures implicates a political-philosophical perspective of the end game. It utilizes at once the productive power of uncertainty to create visions of ‘absolute riches’ and societal gain but at the same time narrows these futures down to one inevitable alternative to the status quo. Through the examples of two Silicon Valley disruptor firms, I argue that these eschatological narratives need to be opened to social scientific critique in order to examine their potential societal consequences above and beyond the narrow geographic confines of ‘the Valley.’     

人性的救赎——从末世论角度解读艾特玛托夫的长篇小说《断头台》

俄罗斯宗教中的末世论思想奸俄罗斯文学产生了深远的影响,许多作家的创作都曾受到这一思想的影响.艾特玛托夫在其长篇小说<断头台>中,通过对不同主人公的不同悲剧命运的描写,将末世论思想展现得淋漓尽致.小说表现了作家对丑恶现实的不满和批判,也体现了作家试图通过"末日的审判"创建美好世界的愿望.