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Carl A. Raschke is the Past Chair and Professor of Religious Studies Department at the University of Denver, specializing in continental philosophy, the philosophy of religion and the theory of religion. He is also known for his research on postmodern Christianity, popular religion, philosophy of culture and philosophy of technology. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Raschke's work involving topics such as Satanism, Wicca, and heavy metal music, in particular his 1990 book Painted Black, have been highly criticized in academia.

Theology

Raschke has argued that the gospel represented a departure from Greek and Enlightenment philosophies, and that Christian believers are best served by reliance on a personal trust in God, rather than philosophical or intellectual constructs.

Reception

Raschke has been credited with being "one of the first to register the importance of Derrida's work."

Carl Raschke is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver, specializing in Continental philosophy, art theory, the philosophy of religion and the theory of religion. He is an internationally known writer and academic, who has authored numerous books and hundreds of articles on topics ranging from postmodernism to popular religion and culture to technology and society.

His book The Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event (University of Virginia Press, 2012), looks at the ways in which major trends in Continental philosophy over the past two decades have radically altered how we understand what we call “religion” in general. His previous two books - GloboChrist (Baker Academic, 2008) and The Next Reformation (Baker Academic, 2004) - examine the most recent trends and in paths of transformations at an international level in contemporary Christianity. Faith and Reason: Three Views (IVP Academic, 2014), of which he is a co-author, is a conversation among three contemporary Christian philosophers.

9780231173841 His latest book is Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2015) .

Other forthcoming books include Critical Theology: A Primer (IVP Academic); Postmodern Theology: The Next Generation (Wipf & Stock).

Other well -known works include Painted Black (HarperCollins, 1991), which surveys the relationship between certain religious cults and violence in contemporary society; The Interruption of Eternity (Nelson-Hall, 1980), regarded as a standard reference work on the origins of the New Age movement; The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University(Routledge, 2002), an analysis of the online revolution in higher education; Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body (State University of New York, 1995), a study of what the term “postmodernism” means in a broad theoretical and cultural perspective; and The Engendering God (Westminster, 1995), an investigation of “feminist” strains in early the Bible and early Christianity

Raschke is also past-president and former executive director of the American Association for the Advancement of Core Curriculum and past director of the University of Denver's Institute for the Humanities. He has also served on the board of directors as well as various national committees of the American Academy of Religion. He is co-founder and senior editor of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. He has been a frequent news commentator on religion and contemporary culture as well as higher education. He is a regular blogger and Current Affairs Editor with Political Theology Today.

He is also a permanent adjunct faculty at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology as well as the Global Center for Advanced Studies, and has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at the University of Vienna. He is co-proprietor of Wingsoar, a lecturing, writing, and seminar company with a retreat center on Lake Texoma north of Dallas. Along with Victor Taylor of York College of Pennsylvania, he is co-founder of the Global Art & Ideas Nexus.

He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

He is married to artist Sunny Raschke, who is currently co-curator at The Edge 166 Artplace in the north Dallas suburbs and past artist-in-residence at Converge Denver. His son Erik is a published novelist and married with two children in the Netherlands.

Bibliography

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• Moral Action, God, and History in the Thought of Immanuel Kant. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1975.
• Religion and the Human Image. Editor and co-author with Mark C. Taylor and James Kirk. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
• The Bursting of New Wineskins: Religion and Culture at the End of Affluence. Pittsburgh, PA: Pickwick Press, 1978.
• The Alchemy of the Word. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979. Republished with new introduction as The End of Theology. Denver: The Davies Group, 2000.
• The Interruption of Eternity. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980.
• Theological Thinking: An Inquiry. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.
• Painted Black: From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal Music: The Alarming True Story of How Satanism Is Terrorizing Our Communities. New York: HarperSan Francisco, 1990. Paperback edition, Harper Collins, 1992.
• Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body. State University of New York Press, 1995.
• The Engendering God. Male and Female Faces of God. Co-authored with Susan D. Raschke. John Knox/Westminster, 1996.
• The End of Theology. Denver CO: The Davies Group Publishers, 2000.
• The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University. London: Routledge, 2002.
• The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity. Grand Rapids MI: Baker Books, 2004.
• The Republic of Faith: The Search for Agreement Amid Diversity in American Religion (Religion in American Culture), The Davies Group Publishers, 2005
• GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn (The Church and Postmodern Culture), Baker Academic, 2008
• Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event, University of Virginia Press, 2012
• Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, Columbia University Press, 2015

References

1. End of Theology
2. "Carl Raschke | Faculty & Staff | Department of Religious Studies | University of Denver". du.edu. 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
3. Steve Wilkens, Faith and Reason: Three Views, p 20. InterVarsity Press, Jun 6, 2014
4. The Blackwell Companion to Postmodern Theology, p 505. John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2008

Further reading

• Dyrendal, Asbjørn. Lewis, James R. Petersen, Jesper AA. 2015. The Invention of Satanism. Oxford University Press.
• Gallagher, Eugene V. 2004. The New Religious Movements Experience in America. Greenwood Publishing Group.
• Gunn, Joshua. 2005. Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century. The University of Alabama Press.
• Pike, Sarah M. 2012. "Wicca in the News" in Winston, Diane (editor). The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media, pp. 289–303. Oxford University Press USA.
• Walter, Robert. 2013. Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. Wesleyan University Press.

External links

• Carl Raschke's Professional Website
• Raschke at Department of Religious Studies

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