God in Postliberal Perspective: Between Realism and Non-realism By Robert Andrew Cathey Ashgate, 2009 As the “between” of the subtitle indicates, Cathey (McCormick Theological Seminary) takes himself to be charting a course between the Scylla of realism and the Charybdis of anti-realism, with specific reference to the doctrine of God. Anti-realism is represented by Anglican […]
The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics By Santiago Zabala Columbia University Press, 2009 Zabala (Potsdam Univ.), part of a younger generation of Italian philosophers, is receiving increased attention in English-speaking philosophy largely, it seems, because of his connection to Gianni Vattimo. Building on his earlier exposition of Ernst Tugendhat in The Hermeneutic Nature […]
Interpreting Excess: Jean-Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics By Shane Mackinlay Fordham University Press, 2009 This book could be profitably read as a phenomenological complement to Robyn Horner’s Jean-Luc Marion: A Theo-logical Introduction. As Mackinlay (Catholic Theological College) rightly notes, Marion’s reception in North America has largely been through the portal of philosophical theology, whereas […]
Part 3: Unknowing, or Perceiving the Invisible NT. I have always found it bewildering how one’s words and actions can be misinterpreted by others (and by oneself? – now there’s a question to ponder), no matter how clear and transparent one has attempted to be. Our discussion on agnosticism is a case in point. […]
Part 2: From Knowledge to Non-Belief, or Becoming More of An Atheist NT. Let me remind you what you said earlier: ‘God’ is a possible reality… The lack of such evidence for deity is self-evident. Nor is there any self-evident or incontestable proof against the existence of deity. Therefore, unless there is some kind […]
Part 1: Faith and Doubt in a Revolutionary Divinity The discussion begins with Nick querying Mark’s defence of hedonism in his new and thus far unpublished work, Wicked Wisdom: A Scandalous A-Z of Over 250 Life Issues (which, as the subtitle suggests, offers a somewhat controversial take on a wide array of topics, from adultery […]
Well, it’s been a tad quiet over here at churchandpomo, for which we apologize. We hope to reignite our readership with an exciting series of posts that will feature a dialogue between two important young voices in continental philosophy of religion, Nick Trakakis and Mark Manolopoulos. Nick and Mark are long-time friends and philosophical colleagues […]
A critical review by James K. A. Smith of Francis Beckwith’s RETURN TO ROME.
Religion and Modernity in a Secular City Katholische Akademie in Berlin 16 – 18 September 2010 Call for Papers: Writing from Vichy, France in early 1940, Walter Benjamin articulated what many theologians secretly feared in his Über den Begriff der Geschichte by portraying theology as the hunchback that must keep out of sight. However, Slavoj […]