The place to follow my work is now The Anchored Argosy. However, from time to time I will post here, just to remind readers of the move.

I have a new article over on the Theopolis website, on the subject of the difference that Pentecost makes for political theology.

O’Donovan noted the way that Jesus’ kingdom mission can appear to many to be ‘apolitical’, as it left the seeming primary threat of the colonial oppressors unaddressed. Behind such an impression there commonly lurk misguided notions of the nature of true political power, typically regarding the essence of power to be coercive force. However, the power of Jesus’ kingdom has a character that radically exceeds this (even if it certainly does not entirely exclude it). The power of Rome, to which the known world was in thrall, was not powerful enough, not ‘political’ enough. Jesus granted his people a power that radically exceeded Rome’s in its affordance of the resources required to ground a community’s life.

Read the whole piece here.