Friendly Fire

In 2016, the journal Modern Believing released a special edition that focused entirely on the project of Pyrotheology. The journal brought together a group of international scholars who are both experts in, and sympathetic to, this project. Yet each takes a critical stance in order to draw out perceived limitations or possible future directions.

In this five-part course, we delve into the arguments of each scholar and I offer up reflections and responses.

With almost 8 hours of material, this seminar aims at offering something of interest, not only to academics and practitioners, but to anyone wanting to delve deeper into the theory and technology of Pyrotheology.

This course can be watched, or listened to via audio-only files. But the video quality isn't very good, so I'd only recommend them if you learn better by watching.

Friendly Fire (Online Course)

$20.00

This course revolves around a special edition of the journal Modern Believing that was dedicated to critically engaging with my work. The journal brought together a group of international scholars who are both experts in, and sympathetic to, the project of Pyrotheology. Yet each takes a critical stance in order to draw out perceived limitations or possible future directions.

In this course, I delve into the arguments of each scholar and offer up some reflections and responses.

The articles I engage with during the course are:

"Let it Blaze, Let it Blaze: Pyrotheology and the Theology of the Event" By John Caputo

"(Not Your) Grandpa’s Church Service: Pyrotheology’s Familial Resemblance to Liberal Theology and the Possibilities for Political Liturgy" By Keegan Osinski

"How (Not) to Speak of the Other: Pyrotheology and Psychoanalysis" By Tad DeLay

"Pyrotheology, Post-Evangelicalism, and the Logic of the ‘One’ By" Xochitl Alvizo

"Neither Male Nor Female, Christian Nor Non-Christian, Oppressor Nor Oppressed: Pyrotheology’s Pauline Politics of Identity" By Katharine Sarah Moody