Mac Loftin
Mac is a PhD candidate in the Study of Religion. He studies the relationship between Christian theology and political thought, principally in relation to far-right nationalisms in the twentieth century and today. His research explores how theological discourses of sacrament, incarnation, Christology, ecclesiology, and salvation have been taken up and reimagined in times of political crisis. Other interests include medieval mystical theologies and their reception in postmodernity, religion and literature, and theologies of grief and mourning in relation to the climate crisis.
Mac received a B.A. in Philosophy and Classics & Religion from Boston University in 2015 and an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School in 2018.
Recent Publications
2023
Mac Loftin, Gwen Dupré, Emily King, Tom Sojer, and Joanna Mikolajczyk Winterø. 2023. “Doing Theology As Making Future(s). The Practices and Poetics of ‘Rethinking Theology’”. LIMINA – Grazer Theologische Perspektiven, 6, 1, Pp. 283-303
Mac Loftin, Gwen Dupré, Emily King, Tom Sojer, and Joanna Mikolajczyk Winterø. 2023. “Doing Theology As Making Future(s). The Practices and Poetics of ‘Rethinking Theology’”. LIMINA – Grazer Theologische Perspektiven, 6, 1, Pp. 283-303
Mac Loftin. 2023. “‘The Crime of Innocence’: Baldwin, Bataille, and the Political Theology of Far-Right Climate Politics”. Political Theology, 24, 6, Pp. 589-605
Mac Loftin. 2023. “‘The Crime of Innocence’: Baldwin, Bataille, and the Political Theology of Far-Right Climate Politics”. Political Theology, 24, 6, Pp. 589-605
2020
Mac Loftin. 2020. “Corpus Fractum: Georges Bataille and Sacramental Theology”. Body and Religion, 4, 1, Pp. 4-31
Mac Loftin. 2020. “Corpus Fractum: Georges Bataille and Sacramental Theology”. Body and Religion, 4, 1, Pp. 4-31