Matt R Jantzen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6716517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt R Jantzen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt R |
| FAMILY NAME | Jantzen |
| SIGNATURE | JANTZEN M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hope College, Holland, MI |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8499-3892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Abolitionist Economic Democracy in advance
Given racialized chattel slavery’s significance to the US economy, the abolition of slavery necessarily raised a profound question for the nation after the Civil War: How would the United States structure its economy when, for the first time in its history, it could no longer unapologetically exploit the stolen labor of millions of enslaved people? This essay examines a set of radically democratic possibilities for reconstructing the US economy t…
The Yes and No of God’s Providence
This paper explores James H. Cone’s paradoxical relationship to the theology of Karl Barth through a case study on their respective accounts of providence. It suggests that Cone’s ambivalence about efforts to relate his theological project to that of Karl Barth resonates with Barth’s hopes for how future generations of Christian theologians would engage with his theology. Barth feared that the reception of his theology would devolve into an insul…
Confederate Theology
In the wake of social movements to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces and expose suppressed legacies of white supremacy in the United States, this article uncovers an influential and overtly white supremacist tradition of US Christian theology through a case study of the Reformed theologian Robert Lewis Dabney (1820‐1898). Regarded by his contemporaries as one of the most prolific theological teachers and scholars of his time, Dabney…
Interview with Joan Wallach Scott
Deep Interdisciplinarity and the Work of Political Theology
Neither Ally, Nor Accomplice
This paper offers an intervention in recent debates about white anti-racism by revisiting James Cone’s treatment of this topic in his early writings. In the last decade, scholars and activists have sought to reimagine the conceptual framework of white anti-racism, criticizing the dominant paradigm of “the ally” and articulating an alternative: “the accomplice.” While these critiques of white allyship accurately expose the serious deficiencies of …
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Neither Ally, Nor Accomplice
This paper offers an intervention in recent debates about white anti-racism by revisiting James Cone’s treatment of this topic in his early writings. In the last decade, scholars and activists have sought to reimagine the conceptual framework of white anti-racism, criticizing the dominant paradigm of “the ally” and articulating an alternative: “the accomplice.” While these critiques of white allyship accurately expose the serious deficiencies of …
Interview with Joan Wallach Scott
Deep Interdisciplinarity and the Work of Political Theology
Confederate Theology
In the wake of social movements to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces and expose suppressed legacies of white supremacy in the United States, this article uncovers an influential and overtly white supremacist tradition of US Christian theology through a case study of the Reformed theologian Robert Lewis Dabney (1820‐1898). Regarded by his contemporaries as one of the most prolific theological teachers and scholars of his time, Dabney…
The Yes and No of God’s Providence
This paper explores James H. Cone’s paradoxical relationship to the theology of Karl Barth through a case study on their respective accounts of providence. It suggests that Cone’s ambivalence about efforts to relate his theological project to that of Karl Barth resonates with Barth’s hopes for how future generations of Christian theologians would engage with his theology. Barth feared that the reception of his theology would devolve into an insul…
Abolitionist Economic Democracy in advance
Given racialized chattel slavery’s significance to the US economy, the abolition of slavery necessarily raised a profound question for the nation after the Civil War: How would the United States structure its economy when, for the first time in its history, it could no longer unapologetically exploit the stolen labor of millions of enslaved people? This essay examines a set of radically democratic possibilities for reconstructing the US economy t…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Constructive (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)