Police, Prisons, & Justice of God (TH 498)
Term: 2021-22 Spring Semester
Description
One of the most pressing issues in contemporary US American public policy and public theology is policing and imprisonment. Some are convinced that “law and order” must be maintained at all costs. Others are convicted that this same law and order constitute a “criminal injustice system” that is nothing other than a “new Jim Crow.” This course engages these debates, examines them in historical and social context, and elaborates a theological response rooted in the resources of Christian dogmatics, ethics, and politics—especially as expressed in global Reformed traditions of resistance to domination.