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THEORY TO NO END

Close Reading: Elad Lapidot on Levinas's Political Theology

Nov 24, 2025

Levinas’s political theology views Rome, not Christianity, as Judaism’s most significant rival.

Lapidot, Elad. “Rome Better Than Christ: Levinas’s (Negative) Political Theology.” Political Theology : The Journal of Christian Socialism, vol. 25, no. 7, 2024, pp. 740–58.

Close Reading: Julia Brown on Locke's Scriptural Hermeneutics

Nov 20, 2025

Locke subordinated revelation to reason out of political caution against religious enthusiasts.

Brown, Julia. “John Locke on Reading the Bible: Rational Obscurity and the Lockean ‘Rule.’” Political theology : the journal of Christian Socialism 24.5 (2023): 447–464.