Jeffrey F. Keuss. Freedom of the Self: Kenosis, Cultural Identity, and Mission at the Crossroads. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publishers, 2010. 182 pages. $21.00 paperback (Amazon). Click here or on the image to purchase Freedom of the Self from Amazon.com and help support The Other Journal. Motto: “Please step forward to the rear!” This is an approximate translation of a request […]
I was listening this morning to Paul Bloom’s book, How Pleasure Works, while I walked a few miles (still no running yet for me after I broke my ankle six weeks ago playing basketball – “You’re not 22 anymore!” my wife and mother said in unison). Toward the end of the book, Bloom talks about a […]
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 […]
The relation between violence and the Christian religion or the role of violence in Christianity is of course not a new problem. However, like other difficult, controversial, and incredibly important issues, it is often left unaddressed or given scant attention in Christian circles including Christian seminaries. Thankfully, at least some modern and postmodern theologians, philosophers, […]
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: […]
Reflections on the Summer of 2010 Daniel A. Siedell Classes start next week. As I hustle to put together course syllabi for the fall semester my work this summer has forced me to reconsider the contours of my academic vocation. We academics live in bubble. We live in a world in which seminar rooms, the […]
One musical trend that I’ve found particularly fascinating over the last few years is the mashup, in which two or more completely dissimilar songs (e.g., “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Bootylicious”, “Every Kinda People” and “Creep”) are mashed together, with the sum being greater than the whole of its parts (e.g., 2ManyDJs’ “Smells like Booty”, Totom’s […]
[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 […]