Exploring the Interconnection of Theology and Life
The Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia is a research community, whose mission is to study the social consequences of theological ideas for the sake of a more just and compassionate world.
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Debate Over Bonhoeffer’s Politics
By Charles Marsh
I shared this short essay with my students recently. It’s a In an article published by Religion News titled “Both right and left claim Bonhoeffer as a champion. Here’s why his ideas fit neither,” Charles Marsh explores the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s politics, particularly how he is used by both the right and left as a champion, when his Christian behavior and attitude fit neither.
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Can I Get a Witness – People Get Ready
The Project on Lived Theology has recently completed a two-volume biographical history of the Christian Left in the United States. To read these vivid theological lives is to encounter a form of Christian conviction that is at once Christ-centered and worldly.
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God’s Long Summer Becomes a Princeton Classic
Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when the lives of activists on all sides of the civil rights issue converged and their images of God clashed.