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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 […]

  I. Introduction   Continuing the business of cross-pollinating my work in contemporary Continental phenomenology (and, in particular, the phenomenology of religion) with Eastern brands phenomenology, I recently came across a striking reading of Buddhism’s “four noble truths” in Stephen Batchelor’s new book, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist (Spiegel & Grau, 2010).   I think Batchelor’s […]

Ken Morefield has posted a call for papers for a follow-up volume to the excellent Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema collection. This may be a great spot for that paper outline I have hanging around about a trauma theory approach to spirituality and memory in Resnais’ Night and Fog and Hiroshima. Both […]

In this interview, nurse and aid worker Brooke James recounts her experiences in Port-au-Prince during the earthquake and reflects on life in Haiti now, five months after the catastrophe.

I want to continue the conversation (really just questioning) begun by James K.A. Smith between an ecclesiocentric view of mission and the “apocalyptic theology” of Halden, Kerr, and Siggelkow.  (James commented on the Preamble). Really, I’m not offering a defense of an ecclesiocentric understanding of mission, but offering critical questions springing from “Kingdom-World-Church: Some Provisional […]

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 […]

Frederiek Depoortere, Badiou and Theology (Philosophy and Theology). New York: T&T Clark International, 2009. Below is my review of Depoortere’s recent book on Badiou.  For a less favorable review see Clayton Crocket’s over at NDPR (he sees it as incoherent, but I think this broadly has to do with differing theological outlooks).  I would be […]

A review of James K. A. Smith’s *The Devil Reads Derrida and Other Essays on the University, the Church, Politics, and the Arts.*