Criticism, Commitment, and Cultural Engagement: A Review of James K.A. Smith’s The Devil Reads Derrida
A review of James K. A. Smith’s *The Devil Reads Derrida and Other Essays on the University, the Church, Politics, and the Arts.*
A review of James K. A. Smith’s *The Devil Reads Derrida and Other Essays on the University, the Church, Politics, and the Arts.*
A critical review by James K. A. Smith of Francis Beckwith’s RETURN TO ROME.
Eric Rohmer died on Monday of this week at the age of 89. Filmwell pays tribute with a consideration of the French film maker’s playful look at free will and determinism, sex and spirituality.
This essay articulates how Derrida’s notion of hospitality may help us to overcome structural racism.
n Hans Urs von Balthasar’s THEO-LOGIC, Christian truth is also the world’s truth, and it is the Spirit-led task of the followers of Christ to improvise on the melody of the Logos in order to draw out the truth of the world.
In this essay, Bruce Herman reflects upon the relationships between sacrifice and beauty in his own paintings and in contemporary art.
Eric Severson explores the neglected day of Christianity’s Holy Saturday by way of Plato’s concept of khora, offering a perspective on Sabbath that includes the darkness and despair of the “middle day.”
This essay argues that although it is common in contemporary philosophy to claim that the ineluctability of death entails its internality, thinking of death as ineluctable and external is much more fruitful.
This essay proposes a philosophy that is committed to truth and passionate for comprehensive wisdom, one that expresses suffering out of hope for God’s future.