Craig Hovey
Biographic Data
| ID | 2079037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Hovey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Hovey |
| SIGNATURE | HOVEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ashland University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-5807-492X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Apocalyptic Passion
This article offers and defends a reinterpretation of Mark 13, traditionally understood as foretelling the destruction of the temple and the second coming of Christ. It instead argues that the chapter is fundamentally about the cross and the impending passion of both Jesus and his disciples. Contrary to common readings of Mark, the coming of the Son of Man refers not to a future parousia but to Jesus’s exaltation through the crucifixion and resur…
How Eberhard Arnold Interpreted Nietzsche
Eberhard Arnold, the founder of the Bruderhof communities, often engaged with Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, offering both defensive and constructive responses. This article explores some of the most noteworthy ways that Arnold interacted with Nietzsche's ideas. While aligning with Nietzsche's critique of Christianity's shift toward afterlife obsession, Arnold advocated a return to early Christianity's celebration of this life. Arnold's theolo…
Rustling Emmaus
Thomas Kazen, Dirt, Shame, Status
inherently receptive to new life and that this is an aspect of their essential nature which should never be overlooked as it contains the key to understanding what a woman is.The reader would not know this from the book, but perhaps it is worth noting that Sister Prudence was married and a mother of two sons before her marriage was annulled and she joined the Sisters of Mercy.She flourished as an academic philosopher and it is very much as a phil…
Distinctions
This article considers and responds to some of the ways the Bible is used in US immigration debates, focusing on restrictive interpretations by conservative scholars. It highlights how biblical texts are often applied to support modern distinctions, such as legal versus illegal immigrants, by selectively interpreting passages like those referring to the “least of these” or the treatment of sojourners versus foreigners. The discussion draws on som…
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology
Interest in political theology has surged in recent years, and this accessible volume provides a focused overview of the field. Many are asking serious questions about religious faith in secular societies, the origin and function of democratic polities, worldwide economic challenges, the shift of Christianity's center of gravity to the global south, and anxieties related to bold and even violent assertions of theologically determined political id…
Keith Ward, Morality, Autonomy, and God
Translation frustration
The article compares and reviews two recent books exploring the art of Christian speaking: Stanley Hauerwas's Learning to Speak Christian (2011) and Marcus J. Borg's Speaking Christian (2011). I argue that both Borg and Hauerwas seek actively to recover Christian language from idolatry, abuse and misunderstanding. Their books steer a course between a Christian use of words that makes too many concessions to 'worldly' usage, on the one hand, and, …
Theo-Political Education
What are the challenges of teaching political theology in the modern university? This article argues that many of the teaching struggles, often most acute when teaching undergraduates, reflect the current state of the theological disciplines in secular and quasi-secular institutions. Compared to descriptions of the liberal arts made by Martha Nussbaum and Stanley Fish—contemporary theorists who in different ways both appear to reject the instrume…
Is Social Justice a Form of Statecraft
Neither Cyclops nor Sophist
This article identifies a deep paradox at the heart of the modern state—in its ability and professed purposes to form the moral characters of its citizens—and then offers a Christian response. Were it not for the manifest success of states in persisting in this paradox, it would delegitimize them on grounds of incoherence and duplicity. In an argument that is occasionally Aristotelian, the article shows how modern (secular, liberal) states morall…
The praise of non-beings
Christian theology has said much about existence and being - whether God's being is the same as that of creatures, whether existence is good or morally neutral, and whether we can say anything meaningful about how God relates to things that do not exist. This article sketches an outline of some of these difficult concepts with an eye to understanding them better, where the possible tensions lie, and why they matter. In particular, it looks to the…
The Legend of Death
History as Sacrament
This article investigates what is entailed in the claim that Christ is the meaning of history. It takes stock of the postmodern antipathy for metanarratives in order to understand both their failures and tendencies toward domination. In response, I draw on an Augustinian, christological hermeneutic for the Old Testament and find a parallel reading of history in the rhetoric of liberation theology that understands history in a sacramental, nontota…
Is your resurrection too small
This article asks about the kind of knowledge appropriate to Christ's resurrection and attempts to preserve its mystery against modern habits of knowing. Such habits inscribe a distance from the resurrection as event, tempting theology to enlist the resurrection in a larger set of arguments and proofs of something else like the reliability of Scripture's witness. As such, they diminish more generally all witness to contingent history. In contrast…
Virtue and the Voice of God
John Howard Yoder
Free Christian Speech
This article explores the meaning of free speech through an analysis of Michael Foucault's lectures on parrhesia in order to show how questions of freedom are bound up with questions of truth. The activity of speaking freely is a function of truth-telling rather than merely subject to regulative principles that underwrite claims of sovereignty. The Christian proclamation of the gospel extends Foucault's insights into a theological register and su…
Democracy beyond Democracy
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Democracy beyond Democracy
John Howard Yoder
Free Christian Speech
This article explores the meaning of free speech through an analysis of Michael Foucault's lectures on parrhesia in order to show how questions of freedom are bound up with questions of truth. The activity of speaking freely is a function of truth-telling rather than merely subject to regulative principles that underwrite claims of sovereignty. The Christian proclamation of the gospel extends Foucault's insights into a theological register and su…
Virtue and the Voice of God
The Legend of Death
History as Sacrament
This article investigates what is entailed in the claim that Christ is the meaning of history. It takes stock of the postmodern antipathy for metanarratives in order to understand both their failures and tendencies toward domination. In response, I draw on an Augustinian, christological hermeneutic for the Old Testament and find a parallel reading of history in the rhetoric of liberation theology that understands history in a sacramental, nontota…
Is your resurrection too small
This article asks about the kind of knowledge appropriate to Christ's resurrection and attempts to preserve its mystery against modern habits of knowing. Such habits inscribe a distance from the resurrection as event, tempting theology to enlist the resurrection in a larger set of arguments and proofs of something else like the reliability of Scripture's witness. As such, they diminish more generally all witness to contingent history. In contrast…
Is Social Justice a Form of Statecraft
Neither Cyclops nor Sophist
This article identifies a deep paradox at the heart of the modern state—in its ability and professed purposes to form the moral characters of its citizens—and then offers a Christian response. Were it not for the manifest success of states in persisting in this paradox, it would delegitimize them on grounds of incoherence and duplicity. In an argument that is occasionally Aristotelian, the article shows how modern (secular, liberal) states morall…
The praise of non-beings
Christian theology has said much about existence and being - whether God's being is the same as that of creatures, whether existence is good or morally neutral, and whether we can say anything meaningful about how God relates to things that do not exist. This article sketches an outline of some of these difficult concepts with an eye to understanding them better, where the possible tensions lie, and why they matter. In particular, it looks to the…
Theo-Political Education
What are the challenges of teaching political theology in the modern university? This article argues that many of the teaching struggles, often most acute when teaching undergraduates, reflect the current state of the theological disciplines in secular and quasi-secular institutions. Compared to descriptions of the liberal arts made by Martha Nussbaum and Stanley Fish—contemporary theorists who in different ways both appear to reject the instrume…
Translation frustration
The article compares and reviews two recent books exploring the art of Christian speaking: Stanley Hauerwas's Learning to Speak Christian (2011) and Marcus J. Borg's Speaking Christian (2011). I argue that both Borg and Hauerwas seek actively to recover Christian language from idolatry, abuse and misunderstanding. Their books steer a course between a Christian use of words that makes too many concessions to 'worldly' usage, on the one hand, and, …
Keith Ward, Morality, Autonomy, and God
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology
Interest in political theology has surged in recent years, and this accessible volume provides a focused overview of the field. Many are asking serious questions about religious faith in secular societies, the origin and function of democratic polities, worldwide economic challenges, the shift of Christianity's center of gravity to the global south, and anxieties related to bold and even violent assertions of theologically determined political id…
Distinctions
This article considers and responds to some of the ways the Bible is used in US immigration debates, focusing on restrictive interpretations by conservative scholars. It highlights how biblical texts are often applied to support modern distinctions, such as legal versus illegal immigrants, by selectively interpreting passages like those referring to the “least of these” or the treatment of sojourners versus foreigners. The discussion draws on som…
Apocalyptic Passion
This article offers and defends a reinterpretation of Mark 13, traditionally understood as foretelling the destruction of the temple and the second coming of Christ. It instead argues that the chapter is fundamentally about the cross and the impending passion of both Jesus and his disciples. Contrary to common readings of Mark, the coming of the Son of Man refers not to a future parousia but to Jesus’s exaltation through the crucifixion and resur…
How Eberhard Arnold Interpreted Nietzsche
Eberhard Arnold, the founder of the Bruderhof communities, often engaged with Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, offering both defensive and constructive responses. This article explores some of the most noteworthy ways that Arnold interacted with Nietzsche's ideas. While aligning with Nietzsche's critique of Christianity's shift toward afterlife obsession, Arnold advocated a return to early Christianity's celebration of this life. Arnold's theolo…
Rustling Emmaus
Thomas Kazen, Dirt, Shame, Status
inherently receptive to new life and that this is an aspect of their essential nature which should never be overlooked as it contains the key to understanding what a woman is.The reader would not know this from the book, but perhaps it is worth noting that Sister Prudence was married and a mother of two sons before her marriage was annulled and she joined the Sisters of Mercy.She flourished as an academic philosopher and it is very much as a phil…
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