Voices from the Edge

Michelle Panchuk is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Murray State University, where she has taught since 2017. Her research is situated at the intersection of philosophy of religion, trauma theory, and feminist philosophy, with a special focus on the phenomenon of religious trauma. Her other interests include metaphysics and the history of Russian philosophy. She has published several articles on the metaphysics of divine concepts, on feminism in philosophy of religion, and on religious traumaMichael Rea is Rev. John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2001. He is also a Professorial Fellow at the Logos Institute for Analytic & Exegetical Theology at the University of St. Andrews. His research focuses primarily on topics in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and analytic theology. He has written or edited more than ten books and forty articles, and has given numerous lectures in the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Russia, China, and Iran, including the 2017 Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews.

• IntroductionI. Methodology1: Helen De Cruz: Seeking out Epistemic Friction in the Philosophy of Religion2: Sameer Yadav: Toward an Analytic Theology of Liberation3: Amy Peeler: Mary as MediatorII. Social Identity, Religious Epistemology, and Religious Affect4: Teri Merrick: Non-deference to Religious Authority: Epistemic Arrogance or Justice?5: Joshua Cockayne, Jack Warman, and David Efird: Shattered Faith: The Social Epistemology of Deconversion by Spiritually Violent Religious Trauma6: Theresa W. Tobin and Dawne Moon: Sacramental Shame in Black Churches: How Racism and Respectability Politics Shape the Experiences of Black LGBTQ and Same-Gender-Loving Christians7: Kathryn Pogin: Conceptualizing AtonementIII. Social Bodies and the Eschaton8: Blake Hereth: The Shape of Trans Afterlife Justice9: Kevin Timpe: Defiant Afterlife-Disability and Uniting Ourselves to God

This new canon, even if aspirational, is a conversational centerpiece because of the volume's intentionalstrategy of deploying friction to facilitate peace.