Brian Patrick Mitchell
Brian Patrick Mitchell (/ˈmɪtʃəl/) is an American writer, political theorist, and blogger, known for his theory of political difference, theology of interpersonal relations, and critical analysis of gender integration of the American armed forces.
Early works
Mitchell was commissioned in the
In 1998, Mitchell published Women in the Military: Flirting with Disaster (
Political theory
In 2006, while working as the Washington bureau chief of
- republican constitutionalism: pro archy, anti kratos
- libertarian individualism: anti archy, anti kratos
- democratic progressivism: anti archy, pro kratos
- plutocratic nationalism: pro archy, pro kratos
Mitchell charts these traditions graphically using a vertical axis as a scale of
For Mitchell, anarchy is not the absence of government but the rejection of rank. Thus there can be both anti-government
In addition to the four main traditions, Mitchell identifies eight distinct political perspectives represented in contemporary American politics:
- communitarian: ambivalent toward archy, pro kratos
- progressive: anti archy, pro kratos (democratic progressivism)
- radical: anti archy, ambivalent toward kratos
- individualist: anti archy, anti kratos (libertarian individualism)
- paleolibertarian: ambivalent toward archy, anti kratos
- paleoconservative: pro archy, anti kratos (republican constitutionalism)
- theoconservative: pro archy, ambivalent toward kratos
- neoconservative: pro archy, pro kratos (plutocratic nationalism)
A potential ninth perspective, in the midst of the eight, is populism, which Mitchell says is vaguely defined and situation dependent, having no fixed character other than opposition to the prevailing power.
Eight Ways was largely ignored by the political mainstream but received favorable reviews from
Theology
In 2010, Mitchell applied archē to Christian theology and anthropology, refining the concept to distinguish archy from hierarchy.[6] Mitchell characterizes hierarchy as involving dissimilarity, inequality, subjection, and mediation between higher and lower ranks, whereas archy involves similarity, equality, unity, intimacy, and order based on derivative being or "sourceness."
Mitchell elaborated on this theme in his doctoral dissertation, published by Pickwick in 2021 as Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female.
Personal
Mitchell has a PhD in theology from the
Bibliography
- Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female (Pickwick, 2021)
- The Disappearing Deaconess: Why the Church Once Had Deaconesses and Then Stopped Having Them, (Eremia, 2021)
- A Crown of Life: A Novel of the Great Persecution (Pontic, 2014)
- Eight Ways to Run the Country (Praeger, 2006)
- The Scandal of Gender: Early Christian Teaching on the Man and the Woman (Regina Orthodox Press, 1998)
- Women in the Military: Flirting with Disaster (Regnery, 1998)
- Weak Link: Flirting with Disaster (Regnery, 1989)
References
- ^ Testimony before the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces, in Women in the Military (Washington: Regnery Publishing, 1998), pp. 345–50.
- ^ Eight Ways to Run the Country: A New and Revealing Look at Left and Right (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006), ix.
- ^ Raimondo, Justin, "Chuck Hagel and the Return of the Old Right", Antiwar.com, Feb. 1, 2007.
- ^ Trifkovic, Srdja, "Le Dernier Mot: Washington Madness" Archived February 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Chronicles, Dec. 31, 2008.
- ^ Gregory, Anthony, "What About the 'Real' Left?", Lewrockwell.com, July 6, 2011.
- ^ "The Problem with Hierarchy: Ordered Relations in God and Man," St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2010.
- ^ Carlson, Allan C., "Gnostic Anti-Sexuals", Touchstone Magazine, November/December 2022.
- ^ "Washington: 65th Anniversary of the Parish of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist". Archived from the original on 2014-10-05. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
- ^ "Brian Patrick Mitchell".
External links
- BrianPatrickMitchell.com
- Eight Ways to Run the Country
- "The Problem with Hierarchy: Ordered Relations in God and Man", by Brian Patrick Mitchell, St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2010.
- "What About the 'Real' Left?", by Anthony Gregory, LewRockwell.com, July 6, 2011.
- "Political Charts: Where do you fit?" Newsvine, June 5, 2007.
- "Beyond Red and Blue", by Paul Gottfried, The American Conservative, April 9, 2007.
- "Who's Who Intellectually", by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., LewRockwell.com, January 11, 2007.
- "Libertarianism and the Great Divide", by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, March 17, 2007.
- Academy of Philosophy and Letters
- Riggenbach, Jeff (July 29, 2011). "The Libertarian Option". Mises Daily. Ludwig von Mises Institute.