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Theo Hobson

Theo Hobson is a British theologian and journalist who is currently living in New York. He has argued for the reform of the Church of England and the renewal of liberal theology. His books include Milton’s Vision: The Birth of Christian Liberty.

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Religion Dispatches
Last week the London branch of the Occupy movement spawned one of the biggest British religion stories of recent years. The reason is that the occupiers chose to pitch their tents on a pedestrianized area right in front of St Paul’s Cathedral. It’s next to the London Stock Exchange…
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Religion Dispatches
Usually, a book about ideas is pretty straightforward. The author is saying this stuff because he believes it. With Terry Eagleton, the British Marxist literary theorist, it’s less so. Marxism, in Eagleton’s hands, is neither exactly a science, nor a practical political agenda. It emerges as essentially a vision, a gaze, a discourse—of political life transformed, of human dignity at last universalized.
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