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An Insurrectionist MANIFESTO

INSURRECTIONS:

Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

INSURRECTIONS:

Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Slavoj iek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey W. Robbins, Editors

The intersection of religion, politics, and culture is one of the most discussed areas in theory today. It also has the deepest and most wide-ranging impact on the world. Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture will bring the tools of philosophy and critical theory to the political implications of the religious turn. The series will address a range of religious traditions and political viewpoints in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. Without advocating any specific religious or theological stance, the series aims nonetheless to be faithful to the radical emancipatory potential of religion.

For a complete list of titles in this series, please refer to .

Ward Blanton, Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Nolle Vahanian

An Insurrectionist

MANIFESTO

FOUR NEW GOSPELS FOR

A RADICAL POLITICS

Foreword by Peter Rollins

Preface by Creston Davis

Afterword by Catherine Keller

Columbia University Press New York

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Names: Blanton, Ward.

Title: An insurrectionist manifesto : four new gospels for a radical politics / Ward Blanton, Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Nolle Vahanian ; foreword by Peter Rollins ; preface by Creston Davis ; afterword by Catherine Keller.

Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016. | Series: Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015034162 | ISBN 9780231176224 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231176231 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231541732 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Political theology.

Classification: LCC BT83.59 .158 2016 | DDC 261.7dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015034162

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For Zoe and Sophia, Maria and Bryan, Charlie and Rose-Marie,

with a love no diaspora can ever define, nor time ever erase in this once and for all life.

CONTENTS

Peter Rollins

Creston Davis

Ward Blanton, Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Nolle Vahanian

Clayton Crockett

Ward Blanton

Jeffrey W. Robbins

Nolle Vahanian

Catherine Keller

Peter Rollins

In the second century the early Christian ascetic Tatian set himself the task of merging the four gospel narratives into a single coherent whole. By the time he had finished he had crafted a text that merged Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John into one single volume.

The gospels were turned into a Gospel.

The four became one.

While his finished work, the Diatessaron, was popular in some circles, it didnt quite gain the support one might expect. Indeed it was mostly used only as a supplement to its source material, and by the fifth century had fallen almost completely out of use.

Given our love of single perspectives its quite amazing that the four won out over the oneafter all the four had themselves won out over a great many more. From todays perspective Tatians project seems to succinctly express the ultimate dream of religious apologists, taking the messy, conflictual narratives and merging them together in a unified, atomic whole.

Yet there has always been another tradition in theology, one marked by a passion for the Real, a desire for the impossible that is testified to/produced by conflictual narratives. In opposition to the demand for some clearly defined object believed to be the destination for our ultimate concern, this subversive, insurrectionary theology sets desire in motion by evoking an excitement for what cannot be grasped.

Such a theology does not seek rest in what can be imagined or symbolized, but remains restless, being stirred up in a dialectic of desire that remains open to the future as well as to reimagining the past.

A theology taken up by the Real teaches us to be wary of imaginary claims promising wholeness and harmony and exposes us to the various ways in which we are drawn into creating/serving sovereign powers.

This book brings together four such theorists of the Real, four writers inspired by the impossible. So what better way to present their work than in four separate reflections.

Four testimonies.

Four gospels.

Each one interlinked and intertwined with the others, yet each lacking an ultimate rapport with their neighbor. Each chapter challenging, confusing, and enlightening in equal measure.

Rather than a simple creed, we, the reader, are invited to partake in a multidisciplinary menagerie of ideas that reflect a dynamic, experimental project.

A project underway.

In place of clearly defined dogmas we find in these four essays shared coordinatescoordinates that might help shake us out of old orthodoxies and wake us up to the crisis we are in.

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