James Davison Hunter. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. 368 pages. $20.12 hardcover (Amazon). It’s hard to resist the spectacle of the Wachowski brothers’ film Speed Racer. Their visual evocation of a kind of live-action anime hovers and […]
By James K.A. Smith, Calvin College ABSTRACT Over the past decade there has been a burgeoning of work in philosophy of religion that has drawn upon and been oriented by “continental” sources in philosophy—associated with figures such as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Gilles Deleuze, and others. This is a significant development […]
Next summer (June 20-July 8, 2011) I’ll be directing a 3-week seminar for scholars and advanced doctoral students, as well as select practitioners, under the auspices of the Seminars in Christian Scholarship at Christian College. Full information for applicants is available at their website. DESCRIPTION “Religion” has received increased attention from both social scientists and […]
Mike Peterson, the managing editor of Faith and Philosophy, has kindly permitted us to reprint a symposium on continental philosophy of religion that appeared in the October 2009 issue of the journal (vol. 26, no. 9). So beginning next week, we’ll roll out the three articles (pdf reproductions of the published versions): Tuesday, Sept. 7: […]
[Cross-posted from Fors Clavigera] Many of us have intellectual debts that never surface, as it were. They are not the sorts of debts that one could track in the footnotes of our work. They are more submerged and subterranean than that. Such debts are often accumulated early on in one’s formation; indeed, they are often […]
Chris Huebner and Tripp York have co-edited a new book that might be of interest to churchandpomo readers: The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation from CMU Press. The book includes a Foreword by John Milbank and contributions from D. Stephen Long, Craig Hovey, C. Rosalee Vellosa Ewell, Peter Dula, and others. You can […]
Postmodernism, Culture and Religion 4 “The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” Syracuse University | April 7-9, 2011 Plenary Speakers: JOHN D. CAPUTO Watson Professor of Religion and Philosophy Syracuse University (http://religion.syr.edu/Caputo.html) PHILIP GOODCHILD Professor of Theology and Religious Studies University of Nottingham (UK) (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Theology/People/philip.goodchild) CATHERINE MALABOU Professor of Philosophy University of Paris-X, Nanterre […]
God After Metaphysics: A Theological Aesthetic By John Panteleimon Manoussakis Indiana University Press, 2007. Manoussakis makes a solid contribution to the growing literature in continental philosophy of religion. Like most works in the field, it is really more of an essay than a scholarly monograph. While the author offers a creative and provocative riff on […]
Of late, several comment threads over at Inhabitatio Dei have been occasions for some ships passing in the night (shouting angrily at one another as they sense some threat in the vicinity!). These have generally come down to differences between those of us sympathetic to what some might call an “ecclesiocentric” understanding of mission and […]