Kenarchy is a newly constructed word signifying an innovative, inclusive reconfiguration of Jesus’ politics of love. It is derived from ken(osis): emptying out sovereign power and replacing it with a love measured by readiness to die for the other, even one’s enemy, and archy: a way of ordering or relating in social space. It has been articulated over the last 15 years by a growing network of theologians and activists around original work begun with and on behalf of them by political theologian Roger Haydon Mitchell. (See Discovering Kenarchy: Contemporary Resources for the Politics of Love. Roger Haydon Mitchell and Julie Tomlin Arram eds. Wipf & Stock, 2014). While based unapologetically in the Jesus story as found in the four gospels of the Christian scriptures, and drawing on the theology of trinity and incarnation, it configures an inclusive politics of love as a gift to people of all faiths and none.
Kenarchy Journal Index
VOLUME 2 Starting Points: Children, Strangers, Prisoners
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KENARCHY JOURNAL VOLUME 2: Editorial
Sue Mitchell
A Loving Civilization
Thomas J Oord
The Way, the Truth and the Life – Christ as our essence and Existence
Brad Jersak
Welcoming Strangers
Hilary Hopwood
Reparative Love
Sunita Abraham
Grace Overflowing – Reflections on Paul’s Theology of Reconciliation
Christopher Marshall
Restorative Justice – Peacemaking not Warmaking; Tranformative Justice – Penal Abolitionism Not Prison Reform
Wayne Northey
Casting Stones at Laws cast in Stone – a Christotelic Narrative of Biblical Law Revealed
Marisa Lapish
Towards a Theology of Childhood
Roger Haydon Mitchell
Peer Review of Towards a Theology of Childhood
Peter McKinney
VOLUME 1 Starting Points: Women, Poor, Land
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KENARCHY JOURNAL VOLUME 1: An Introductory Editorial
Sue Mitchell
Co-equal and Co-eternal: Reflections on the Nicene Creed as an affirmation of a non-hierarchical trinitarian understanding of God
Hugh Osgood
Eternal Counsel, Temporal Instantiation and the Revelation of Triune Love: A creative response to Hugh Osgood
Brad Jersak
The Spiralling Dance of Wisdom
Julie Tomlin
Kenarchy as a Counterpolitical resource: Re-imagining our understanding of land and nature
Mike Winter
The Necessity and Possibility of Lament
Marijke Hoek
The Centrality of the Poor to the Work of the Kingdom of God in the 21st Century West
Roger Haydon Mitchell
The Commodified Christ and the Economics of Jubilee
Spencer Paul Thompson