Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2015
Publication Title
Crisis and Critique
Volume
2
Abstract
Through a brief history of antinomian thought within the modern period, and the inspection of two contemporary responses to the ‘antinomian impulse’, I refocus the antinomian debate as being, not necessarily a heretical endeavor, but rather a dialectic between history and memory, structure and experience. Rather than portray antinomianism as a threat to the system which needs to be removed, perhaps we can learn to perceive it as a ‘weak messianic force’ moving through all constituted (religious) identities, not, then, as the end of ‘Christianity’ as an organized religion, but its original proclamation, ever in need of greater reformation.
Issue
1
Pages
115-149
Recommended Citation
Dickinson, Colby. What Christians Need No Longer Defend: The Political Stakes of Considering Antinomianism as Central to the Practice and History of Theology. Crisis and Critique, 2, 1: 115-149, 2015. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works,
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Copyright Statement
© Colby Dickinson, 2015.
Comments
Author Posting. © Colby Dickinson, 2015. This article is posted here by permission of the author for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Crisis and Critique, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2015.