Ted A Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 5178393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ted A Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ted A |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Individualization, Mysticism, and the Life of the Church
Christians trust that the church is present in every age not because its social forms are right, but because God is faithful. That confidence leads us to think theologically about changing patterns of church life. Theological reflection on the church needs to take sociological accounts seriously without reducing itself to them. The best accounts of changing patterns of church life today see declining rates of affiliation not as secularization, bu…
The Education of Authenticity
The kind of theological schools that prevail in the US today emerged as hubs of networks of voluntary societies in the early national period. Through a brief history of Lyman Beecher and Lane Theological Seminary, I show both the power of these networks of voluntary associations to connect free individuals and their role in the project of white Protestant settlement. Now every part of those networks is eroding. Critics who blame this erosion on n…
The Mark of Cain
Hannah Arendt calls for the “abolition of sovereignty from the body politic.” In this article I affirm some key elements of Arendt’s critique, arguing against versions of Christian ethics that try to deploy divine authorization for particular policies, institutions, goals, or virtues. But I also argue that the attempt to abolish sovereignty allows the political process itself to become a sovereign good and erodes the forms of life that can sustai…
Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality
American Covenant
Political Theology
In January of 2010, six prominent academics gathered at the University of Heidelberg for lectures and conversations on “Political Theology from Rahner to Ratzinger.” Jurgen Moltmann, Johann Baptist
Reasoning about Exceptions”
One of the most important tasks for political theologians today is the cultivation of capacities for democratic reasoning about exceptions to the rule of law. The task is important because liberal societies face – or at least believe they face – a number of threats that seem to require exceptional measures in response. The pressure to make exceptions grows stronger, even as we find ourselves with fewer and weaker resources for thinking about them…
A Nation with the Soul of a Church
Mourning 9/11
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 presses with new urgency the question of how to mourn. In the presence of that anniversary, I revisit the work of Walter Benjamin and Gillian Rose. The two could be taken as irreconcilable opposites. Benjamin stresses the need to refuse consolation, Rose the need to engage in the work of mourning. Rose accentuates the differences, developing key parts of her account of mourning in direct contrast with Benjamin. I fol…
Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View
Preaching and the Politics of Eschatological Memory
From Ted A. Smith Preaching and the Politics of Eschatological Memory in Liturgy, volume 22, number 1 (2007), © 2007 The Liturgical Conference, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission
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Preaching and the Politics of Eschatological Memory
From Ted A. Smith Preaching and the Politics of Eschatological Memory in Liturgy, volume 22, number 1 (2007), © 2007 The Liturgical Conference, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission
Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View
Mourning 9/11
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 presses with new urgency the question of how to mourn. In the presence of that anniversary, I revisit the work of Walter Benjamin and Gillian Rose. The two could be taken as irreconcilable opposites. Benjamin stresses the need to refuse consolation, Rose the need to engage in the work of mourning. Rose accentuates the differences, developing key parts of her account of mourning in direct contrast with Benjamin. I fol…
Reasoning about Exceptions”
One of the most important tasks for political theologians today is the cultivation of capacities for democratic reasoning about exceptions to the rule of law. The task is important because liberal societies face – or at least believe they face – a number of threats that seem to require exceptional measures in response. The pressure to make exceptions grows stronger, even as we find ourselves with fewer and weaker resources for thinking about them…
A Nation with the Soul of a Church
Political Theology
In January of 2010, six prominent academics gathered at the University of Heidelberg for lectures and conversations on “Political Theology from Rahner to Ratzinger.” Jurgen Moltmann, Johann Baptist
Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality
American Covenant
The Mark of Cain
Hannah Arendt calls for the “abolition of sovereignty from the body politic.” In this article I affirm some key elements of Arendt’s critique, arguing against versions of Christian ethics that try to deploy divine authorization for particular policies, institutions, goals, or virtues. But I also argue that the attempt to abolish sovereignty allows the political process itself to become a sovereign good and erodes the forms of life that can sustai…
The Education of Authenticity
The kind of theological schools that prevail in the US today emerged as hubs of networks of voluntary societies in the early national period. Through a brief history of Lyman Beecher and Lane Theological Seminary, I show both the power of these networks of voluntary associations to connect free individuals and their role in the project of white Protestant settlement. Now every part of those networks is eroding. Critics who blame this erosion on n…
Individualization, Mysticism, and the Life of the Church
Christians trust that the church is present in every age not because its social forms are right, but because God is faithful. That confidence leads us to think theologically about changing patterns of church life. Theological reflection on the church needs to take sociological accounts seriously without reducing itself to them. The best accounts of changing patterns of church life today see declining rates of affiliation not as secularization, bu…
Philosophy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works)