Arentzen’s work engages the philosophy of plant life and the science of tree communication to explore how early Christians lived with trees. Ever since the cross, trees have found their way into Christian mythologies, but often as symbols of anything but “treeness.”Probing narratives and language of human-tree companionship, Arentzen asks whether “dwelling with” perhaps camouflages a “thinking with.” Where might such tree thinking lead us, theologically?
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Gray’s work considers the interplay of continental philosophies of religion and methods in African American religion. His recent book Black Life Matter offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality. Gray employs a method he calls “sitting-with”—a philosophical practice of care that seeks to defend the dead and the living.
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Most conceptions of emergent Christian history have been based on a Western, Roman model. However, the Christian movement transcends the margins of the Roman world and diversifies as it spreads both within the Roman Empire and beyond its borders.
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