I rarely post articles by other people, but due to my love for David Bentley Hart (coupled with my growing frustration that high school literature teachers cannot find anything better to indoctrinate their students with than the mawkish and fetishized accounts of the self as dictated by Ayn Rand) I’m willing to make an exception. […]
In his latest book, “The End of Evangelicalism?”, pastor and professor David E. Fitch explores the possibility of evangelicalism surviving, in some form, throughout the 21st century. Fitch utilizes the philosophy of Slavoj Žižek to deconstruct what many evangelicals hold most dear–inerrancy of Scripture, the decision for Christ, and belief that the U.S. is a […]
David Galston, Archives and the Event of God: The Impact of Michel Foucault on Philosophical Theology (Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2011). Reviewed by J. Carl Gregg The Rev. J. Carl Gregg is the pastor of Broadview Church in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, and a Doctor of Ministry candidate at San Francisco Theological Seminary. He is also […]
“Are Christians supposed to employ the Christian side-hug on homosexuals or just not touch them at all?” I’ll be honest, I thought it was a legitimate question. I mean, given the amount of literature on curing homosexuality that my local LifeWay Bookstore carries I assumed the clerk would have an answer. “Are you trying to […]
“Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?” – Maximus, Gladiator (2000) It’s best to let the furor die down before writing about Charlie Sheen. He became larger than life all of the sudden, a multi-media spectacular of machetes, cussing, occult references and tiger blood. He embodied the […]
Sunday night was the premiere of the controversial four-part miniseries “The Kennedys,” a show dropped by the History Channel in the U.S. and subsequently relegated to the hitherto unknown ReelzChannel (in Canada, it was shown on History Television, a Global affiliate). The controversy surrounding the show does seem a little strange in this day and […]
Simmons, J. Aaron Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Furman University Ph.D. Vanderbilt University M.A. Vanderbilt University M.A. Florida State University B.A. Lee University Email: www.simmons@hendrix.edu Website: www.hendrix.edu/philosophy/simmons Bio: I was born in east Tennessee and grew up in Tampa, Florida. I am married to Vanessa and we have a son named Atticus (who is 19 […]
Courtney Bender and Pamela E. Klassen, eds. After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-231-15233-4. Reviewed by J. Aaron Simmons J. Aaron Simmons is currently an assistant professor of philosophy at Hendrix College (he will be joining the philosophy department at Furman University this summer). Specializing in continental philosophy […]
Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology 2012 Conference: Creation, Creatureliness, and Creativity: The Human Place in the Natural World April 20-22, 2012 | Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Keynote Speakers: Bruce Foltz (Eckerd College) Janet Martin Soskice (Cambridge University) Norman Wirzba (Duke Divinity School) CALL FOR PAPERS SCPT’s 2012 conference takes today’s ecological crises as […]