The collaboration that is The Kenarchy Journal presents the research of academics and activists engaged in the politics of love. The Journal exists to advance applied academic research, and is published in partnership with the Jim Forest Institute for Religion, Peace and Justice (https://www.jfi.ssu.ca/) as the Institute’s academic journal.
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. We enthusiastically invite researchers and activists in the politics of love from other backgrounds to engage with us from their own perspective.
Webinars to engage further
The Journal is now offering the possibility of delving deeper into the articles through Zoom webinars with some of the authors, thus providing the opportunity for both thinkers and activists to engage further with the applied research material. If, while reading articles, you find that you would like to participate in a webinar with a particular author, use this contact form to let us know (we will send out the zoom link to all those who indicate their interest). Use the button below to see what webinars are already being planned.
Kenarchy Journal Index
VOLUME 7 Perfecting Love
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KENARCHY JOURNAL VOLUME 7: Editorial
Sue Mitchell
The Great Music: Perfecting Love in Order and in Chaos
Sencer Thompson
At last Towards the Good: The Eschatology of St. Gregory of Nyssa
Jeffrey Mears
Old Testament Land Promises and the Justification of Violence in the Crusades
Faith A. Edwards
The Rise of Intercultural Theology and its challenge for Western and Non-Western Theologies
Paul Lancaster
The need for contextual theology in the modern world: An exploration of Minjung Theology
Johan Francis
The Double-Edged Sword of Proximity: the Dialectic of Hostility and Hospitality in Light of God’s Cruciform Love
Lenée Fuelling
How kenotic alignment reframes spiritual warfare prayer
Roger Haydon Mitchell
Book review: Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Essays and Sermons on Eschatology, Ethics, and Politics
Mike Love
Book Review: Faith, Politics, and Belonging: A Reflection on Identity, Complexity, Simplicity, and Obsession
Sam Tomlin
Book Review: FREEDOM- The Case for Open Borders
Mike Winter
Book Review: Reconciling Justice: Concepts of Justice in the Multireligious Context of Palestine/Israel
Robert Cohen
VOLUME 6 Kenarchy and Peace
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KENARCHY JOURNAL VOLUME 6: Editorial
Roger Mitchell
Beyond Hope: Evaluating Ecotheological Models with Respect to the Anthropocene and Eschatology
Melissa Stewart
Made in the Image of God: Seeing Humanity as God Sees Us
Latasha Hazlett
Menstrual Blood: an icon of the kenotic atonement of Christ— A Better Way with Better Blood
Lisa Meier
Lamentations & (Anti)Theodicy
Mark Preston Stone
A Liturgy of Lament
Rev Dr Munther Isaac
In Gaza, Israel Is Revealing the True Face of Zionism
Rabbi Brant Rosen and the board of Tzedek Chicago
The Inconvenient Narrative Behind the Catastrophe in Gaza
Andrew Phillip Klager
A Path From Me to You: From Objectification to Relation
Jon Paul Robles
Yahweh Saves: Why I believe in a non-violent God
Spencer Paul Thompson
Book Review: The Day of the Labyrinth
Connie Dryfhout
Book Review: Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview
Mike D Winter
VOLUME 5 Sovereignty Upended
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KENARCHY JOURNAL VOLUME 5: Editorial
Roger Mitchell
Biblical & Christological Foundations for Voluntary Kenosis
Bradley Jersak
Into the Wilderness: Tracing the Steps of a Birdlike Wisdom
Julie Tomlin
Spiritual Capital – Observations in Process
Simon Cross
Struggling for Good against Evil
Dave Andrews
Palestinian Arabs as Co-Heirs of the Abrahamic Promise: Revisiting a Literal, Unconditional Interpretation
Michael Huffman
Book Review: Kenosis
Mark Corner
Book Review: Saving Liberalism from Itself
Bradley Jersak
Book Review: Anthony Reddie introducing James H. Cone
Michael McDougle
Book Review: Out of the Embers
Paul Lancaster
Book Review: Enchantments of Mammon
Spencer Thompson
VOLUME 4 Kenosis for loving action
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KENARCHY JOURNAL VOLUME 4: Editorial
Roger Mitchell
Kenosis in Catastrophe
Anna Mercedes
Creation and Kenosis
Mark Corner
Discharged from the Law: Paulos, Anarchy and Spirit. Exploring Romans 6-8 With Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin
David Benjamin Blower
The Eucharist as Iconic Experience of Divine Love: Ancient – Future Orienteering with Julian of Norwich
Marisa J. Lapish
False Doctrine, False God, False Economy: Scarcity and Abundance in the Song of Solomon
Spencer Paul Thompson
A Gospel of Exclusion? Implications of Employing Nehemiah as Exemplar in American Political Rhetoric
Michael Huffman
Book Review: Pluriform Love: An Open and Relational Theology of Well-being by Thomas J Oord
Carol Kingston Smith
Book Review: Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances by Catherine Keller
Sam Tomlin
Book Review : Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture – An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen F. Davis
Mike D. winter
VOLUME 3 Starting Points: Health and Wellbeing
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KENARCHY JOURNAL VOLUME 3: Editorial
Sue Mitchell
A Society Without Imagination: A Lament
Paul Milbank
Hidden in Plain Sight: reconsidering the value of social reproduction, work and nature
Julie Tomlin
Towards a political theology of nations
Roger Haydon Mitchell
Healthy Cities
Mike Love
Healthy Cities
Andy Knox
Implications of Including Zipporah’s Story in a Theology of Mediation
Michael Huffman
The Lord’s Supper Table as Icon for Remembrance in I Corinthians 11:17-34: An Apostolic and Patristic Reprimand for Inclusive, Christlike Table Manners
Marisa Lapish
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
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