Experimental Theology


...trudging into the distance in the bleeding stinking mad shadow of Jesus...the Lord out of dust had created him, had made him blood and nerve and mind, had made him to bleed and weep and think, and set him in a world of loss and fire... --Flannery O'Connor

12.11.2025

Enchantment, Emergence, and Egregores: Part 3, Egregoric Possession as an Emergent Phenomenon

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I wrote Reviving Old Scratch in 2016 during my early years of prison ministry. As you can tell from the subtitle of the book--"Demons ...
12.10.2025

Enchantment, Emergence, and Egregores: Part 2, The Demons of the Nations

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In the last post I described how the egregore is identified as a demonic power holding sway over a group . And while that isn't how we t...
12.09.2025

Enchantment, Emergence, and Egregores: Part 1, The Demonic Possession of Groups

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I've mentioned how I encountered Valentin Tomberg's  Meditations on the Tarot , his exploration of Christian Hermeticism. And while ...
12.08.2025

The Antichrist and the Katechon: Part 5, Desacralize the Katechon

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As described in Part 3 of this series, Wolfgang Palaver was influential in introducing the Biblical notion of the katechton into Girardian t...
12.07.2025

Second Sunday of Advent: A Poem

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"Mary" Toil over. Weary twilight comes. Silence and rest. And she, unaware, of the cosmic singularity that is herself. Eternit...
12.05.2025

Psalm 131

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"my soul is like a weaned child" The short Psalm 131 is built around a single image, a weaned child resting with his or her mother...
12.04.2025

The Antichrist and the Katechon: Part 4, The Katechonic Irony of Peter Thiel

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As I mentioned, my explorations into Girardian thinking regarding the katechon were kicked off by my colleague David sharing a recent Wired ...
12.03.2025

The Antichrist and the Katechon: Part 3, The Secularization of Sacred Violence

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As mentioned in the last post, Wolfgang Palaver's 1995 article "Hobbes and the Katéchon: The Secularization of Sacrificial Christia...
12.02.2025

The Antichrist and the Katechon: Part 2, Girard's Apocalypse

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I mentioned in the last post that Peter Thiel is a follower of René Girard and connects his ideas about the Antichrist and katechon to Girar...
12.01.2025

The Antichrist and the Katechon: Part 1, When Does the Katechon Become the Antichrist?

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Recently, my colleague David McAnulty sent me this Wired essay about Peter Thiel's theories concerning the Antichrist and how those re...
11.30.2025

First Sunday of Advent: A Poem

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"Exile" Hope cracks dry underfoot, tinder for despair. Dreams sweaty, fevered, tossed. Chewed stories stale in the mou...
11.28.2025

Psalm 130

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"I wait for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning" What a line right before Advent. Waiting for the Lord more than watchmen ...
11.27.2025

René Girard and Moral Influence: Part 7, We Await the Eucatastrophe

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So, what does it matter if, in the end, René Girard's theory is a moral influence view of the atonement? Let me end this series by answe...
11.26.2025

René Girard and Moral Influence: Part 6, Love Everyone

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There was a time when I considered René Girard's theory of atonement to be a species of Christus Victor rather than moral influence. Spe...
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