Political Philosophy

In this second part of a series on the book “An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture” by Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight, we get into the foreboding wilderness of covenantal community and the scary idea of neighborliness. Here’s a link to the Minimalists, mentioned at the beginning of the video. https://www.theminimalists.com/

This is the second reading of my new book, Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right: The Political Thought of Carl Jung. This is from the first chapter, which explains the basics of Jung’s psychological theories as they apply to political ideologies. My apologies for the slight hum in this video–too close to another device! You can find the book in paperback and e-book at many outlets, but here’s the link to the book (including rental option) at Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Ideological-Possession-and-the-Rise-of-the-New-Right-The-Political-Thought/Johnson/p/book/9781138082120

Part 1. Radical Christianity: An Other Kingdom. Block, Brueggemann and McKnight are authors of An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture. In this episode, I introduce their critique of today’s politicized and materialistic Christianity and begin to pose a radical break with the American entanglement of Christianity and the dominant civil religion.