Voices from the Edge Centering Marginalized Perspectives in Analytic Theology

Michelle Panchuk, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Murray State University,Michael Rea, University of Notre Dame, Rev. John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy

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 trauma

Michael 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.

Introduction
I. Methodology
1. Seeking out Epistemic Friction in the Philosophy of Religion, Helen De Cruz
2. Toward an Analytic Theology of Liberation, Sameer Yadav
3. Mary as Mediator, Amy Peeler
II. Social Identity, Religious Epistemology, and Religious Affect
4. Non-deference to Religious Authority: Epistemic Arrogance or Justice?, Teri Merrick
5. Shattered Faith: The Social Epistemology of Deconversion by Spiritually Violent Religious Trauma, Joshua Cockayne, Jack Warman, and David Efird
6. Sacramental Shame in Black Churches: How Racism and Respectability Politics Shape the Experiences of Black LGBTQ and Same-Gender-Loving Christians, Theresa W. Tobin and Dawne Moon
7. Conceptualizing Atonement, Kathryn Pogin
III. Social Bodies and the Eschaton
8. The Shape of Trans Afterlife Justice, Blake Hereth
9. Defiant Afterlife-Disability and Uniting Ourselves to God, Kevin Timpe