{"title":"Can God the Father Bind the Strongman? Bonhoeffer, Daly, and the New Authoritarianism","authors":"Dirk von der Horst","doi":"10.1111/dial.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Mary Daly offer contrasting approaches to anti-authoritarian theologies. This article explores the sexual politics of anti-authoritarian theologies by exploring how Bonhoeffer and Daly treat masculine God-language, identity politics, and institutions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 2","pages":"100-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148193991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective","authors":"James M. Childs","doi":"10.1111/dial.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to impose its vision of the good on all of society. Basic features of the Christian ethic of agape and its theological foundations provide striking contrasts with the ethics and practices of authoritarian government, providing resources for the public witness of the Christian community.</p>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 2","pages":"76-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dial.70037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148193979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christian Defense and Stewardship of the Constitution of the United States","authors":"Jeff Zust","doi":"10.1111/dial.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 2","pages":"62-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148194101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theological Struggle Against Authoritarianism: Calls for Confessing Church","authors":"Craig L. Nessan","doi":"10.1111/dial.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article juxtaposes the church struggle against Nazism in Germany with the theological struggle against Christian Nationalism in the US. The Christ-centered theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and of the Barmen Declaration grounded theological resistance in Germany. In the US, there have been many calls for confessing church; five theological movements are documented. The author compares the two historical contexts and analyzes the challenges facing contemporary efforts at confessing church through theological resistance</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 2","pages":"65-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148194015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Makes a Christian Life Alive? On Call and Creation in N.F.S. Grundtvig and Jean-Louis Chrétien","authors":"Anders Skou Jørgensen","doi":"10.1111/dial.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>According to 19th-century Danish theologian and poet N.F.S. Grundtvig, Christianity truly comes alive when it is freely expressed in the congregation through confession of faith, preaching, song, and praise. This article presents a contemporary systematic reading of Grundtvig's important essay, <i>The Christian Signs of Life</i>, alongside his hymn <i>There Sat a Fisherman Deep in Thought</i>, which depicts the conversion of Simon. It is argued that Grundtvig's hymn may be taken to show not only what it means to be called to a Christian life, but also the necessity of contemplation, as well as the movement from contemplation to action. To further elaborate on Grundtvig's insights, the article draws upon 20th-century philosopher Jean-Louis Chrétien's work concerning the call and the response. By reading Chrétien alongside Grundtvig's hymn <i>Creation</i>, it is shown how being called may be understood as a foundational moment not only in discipleship, but in Creation as such.</p>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 1","pages":"29-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dial.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ordinary Faith in Polarized Times: Justification and the Pursuit of Justice","authors":"David A. Brondos","doi":"10.1111/dial.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.70023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 1","pages":"50-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bondage Instead of Freedom? How Can Lutheran Theology Prevent the Use of Sola Scriptura as an Entrance to Pathological Theology?","authors":"Jan-Olav Henriksen","doi":"10.1111/dial.70019","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dial.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The principle of <i>Sola Scriptura</i> was originally intended to liberate the Church from external authorities, ensuring that no power other than the Word of God dictated its teachings and practices. It served a critical role over against human authorities that demanded obedience to doctrines and practices that were not grounded in Scripture. The following analysis explores the shadow side of this principle, inspired by some elements in the psychology of religion. The reason for this approach is that the meaning of theology is not found solely in its articulation but in its practical effects—how it orients life, shapes identity, and enables or constrains human flourishing. To examine this, I will also employ Hanna Reichel's concept of theology as design. Her approach addresses “bad theology,” or theology that fosters pathological dynamics, and this can also be the case with the principle in question.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 1","pages":"45-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spirituality and Mercy—Or, a Crisis of Spirituality's Making","authors":"Vincent Evener","doi":"10.1111/dial.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dial.70020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 1","pages":"3-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resonance in Theology – Theology in Resonance","authors":"Jan-Olav Henriksen, Niels Henrik Gregersen","doi":"10.1111/dial.70030","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dial.70030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecology in Hartmut Rosa's Theory of Resonance: A Four-Level Reconstruction","authors":"Niels Henrik Gregersen","doi":"10.1111/dial.70028","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dial.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses Hartmut Rosa's sociological theory of resonance with special emphasis on religion and ecology. In Rosa, resonance experiences refer to (always) participatory and (normally) enlivening world relations. I argue that Rosa's resonance theory is multi-pronged and covers at least three interconnected levels. (1) At the phenomenological level, Rosa points to ever-fleeting experiences of resonance and more long-lived axes of resonance. (2) At the sociological level, he analyzes the structural conditions that either promote or inhibit an openness to resonance among late modern citizens. (3) At the philosophical level, Rosa argues that resonance constitutes basic and primordial ways of being-in-the-world more fundamental than alienation. Adding to Rosa's sociological theory, I propose (4) the level of a pre-cultural world of ‘natural resonance’ ubiquitously ingrained in the more-than-human world. Natural resonance is presented as a prelude to Rosa's sociological theory, which supports his constitutive view of resonance by fueling human existence below the threshold of awareness. In discussion with Bruno Latour, it is argued that Rosa's resonance theory links religion, ecology, and ethics without reducing them to one another.</p>","PeriodicalId":42769,"journal":{"name":"Dialog-A Journal of Theology","volume":"65 1","pages":"36-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dial.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}