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CURRICULUM VITAE
MEROLD WESTPHAL
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Philosophy Department
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 817-3274 or 3272
westphal@fordham.edu
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30 Pacific Avenue
Nanuet, NY 10954
(845) 624-5732
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Education
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1962
1965
1966
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BA
MA
PhD
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Wheaton College (Illinois) summa cum laude
Yale University
Yale University
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Philosophical Interests
Primary: Continental philosophy from Kant to the present:
• the historical development and systematic integrity of individual thinkers and the dialogue or debate between pairs of thinkers
• their contributions to the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and aesthetics
• their contributions to issues of philosophical methodology in terms of dialectical holism, ideology critique, existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, etc.
Other interests:
• Augustine
• Spinoza
• political theory
• Eastern philosophy, especially Hindu and Buddhist
Teaching Appointments
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1964-65
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Instructor in Philosophy, Wheaton College
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1966-67
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Instructor in Philosophy, Yale University
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1967-72
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Assistant Professor, Yale
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1972-74
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Associate Professor, Yale
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1974-76
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Visiting Associate Professor, SUNY, Purchase
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1976-87
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Professor of Philosophy, Hope College (Chair 1977-86)
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1981-82
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J. Omar Good Distinguished Visiting Professor, Juniata College
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1984, 86
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(Summer) Adjunct Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary
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1986
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(Fall) Visiting Professor, Fordham University
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1987-97
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Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University
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1989
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(Fall) Cardin Chair in the Humanities (Visiting), Loyola College in Maryland
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1997-
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Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University
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1998
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(Summer) Pew Younger Scholars Program at Notre Dame: Seminar on Hermeneutics and Deconstruction
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1998
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(Summer) Adjunct Faculty Member, Fuller Theological Seminary
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1999
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(Fall) Visiting Professor in Christian Philosophy, Villanova University
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2001
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(Spring) Visiting Professor, Harvard Divinity School
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2001
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(Summer) Adjunct Faculty Member, Fuller Theological Seminary
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2003
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Short term visiting lecturer, Wuhan University, China (14 lectures in ten-day period)
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2003
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(Summer) Adjunct Faculty Member, Fuller Theological Seminary
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2005
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(Summer) Adjunct Faculty Member, Fuller Theological Seminary
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Other Appointments, Awards, Etc.
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1962-63
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Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Yale
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1967-74
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Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale
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1968-76
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Danforth Associate
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1971-72
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Morse Fellowship, grant from Yale for leave at U. of Heidelberg
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1974
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Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecturer at Messiah College, Grantham and Philadelphia PA
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1974-78
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Executive Council, Hegel Society of America
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1976-78
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Program Chair and editor of the Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America
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1978-80
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Vice President, Hegel Society of America
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1979
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Staley Lecturer at Bates College
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1980-83
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Board Member, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
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1980
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History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology selected for Choice magazine's "Outstanding Academic Books of the Year" Award
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1982-84
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President, Hegel Society of America
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1984-90
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Theological Commission, Reformed Church in America
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1985
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Belgum Lecturer, St. Olaf College
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1985-94
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Founding member, editorial board of Perspectives
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1985-88
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Executive Committee, Society of Christian Philosophers
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1986-87
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Advisory Committee, Midwest Faculty Seminar (U. of Chicago)
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1986-87
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President, Soren Kierkegaard Society
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1986
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God, Guilt, and Death selected by the American Academy of Religion for its first annual book award in the category of Constructive-Reflective Studies
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1987
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Annual Lectureship in Christianity and Learning, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto
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1987
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Council for Philosophical Studies - Visiting Philosopher Program - Bethel College
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1988
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Council for Philosophical Studies - Visiting Philosopher Program - jointly at Cedarville College and Wittenberg University
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1989-90
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American Philosophical Association/Association of American Colleges Philosophy Task Force for the Project, "Liberal Learning and Study in Depth in the Arts and Sciences"
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1989
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Keynote Lecturer, Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference
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1990-95
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Director of Graduate Studies, Fordham University
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1990
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Annual Cardin Lecture on Jewish-Christian Relations at Loyola College in Maryland
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1990
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Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Religion and Society in Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard
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1990
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Program Committee, Hegel Society of America
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1990-93
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Executive Committee, Soren Kierkegaard Society
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1991-92
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Program Chair, American Philosophical Association, Central Division
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1991-94
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Program Chair, Soren Kierkegaard Society for meetings at the three divisions of the APA
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1991-94
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Executive Committee, SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
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1991-95
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Co-Chair of Group on Continental Philosophy and Theology, AAR
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1992
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Program Committee, Hegel Society of America
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1992
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Annual Faith and Philosophy Lecture, North Park College
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1993-96
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Member APA National Board, Chair - Committee on Career Opportunities, Ombudsperson for Hiring Process
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1993
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McManus Lectures, Wheaton College
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1993-94
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Co-Chair, Task Force on Faculty Identity, Fordham University Self-Study for Middle States Reaccreditation
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1994
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Suspicion and Faith selected by Christianity Today for one of its Critic's Choice Book Awards in the Theology and Biblical Studies Category
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1994-96
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Member Advisory Committee of APA National Board
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1995
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Roy Wood Sellars Lectureship, Bucknell University
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1995-98
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Executive Co-Director, SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
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1995-
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International Advisory Board, Kluwer Handbook for the Philosophy of Religion in the Twentieth Century, six volumes.
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1996
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Staley Lecturer at Concordia College (MN)
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1996
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External Evaluator, Philosophy program at Concordia College (MN)
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1996
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Director, Calvin College Summer Seminar for College Faculty: Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought
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1996
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Lecturer for the Academic Speakers Honors Seminar Program, University of Tennessee at Martin
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1997
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External Evaluator, Philosophy program at Stetson University
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1997-99
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Nominating Committee, Eastern Division, APA
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1998
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Director, Pew Younger Scholars’ Seminar at Notre Dame: Hermeneutics and Postmodernism
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1999
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Jellema Lectures, Calvin College
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1999
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Director, Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers Seminar on Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought
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1999-00
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SPEP Advocacy Committee
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1999
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Becoming a Self selected by Alpha Sigma Nu, the National Jesuit Honor Society for Notable Book Status award.
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2000
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Fordham Graduate School Teaching Award
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Norton Lectures, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville
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Toulouse Lectures, Seattle University
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Lectures at L'Abri Fellowship, Huemoz, Switzerland
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Hartshorne Lecture, Colgate University
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2000-
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Fordham Faculty Representative, Lilly Fellows Program
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2001-3
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Program Committee, Eastern Division, APA
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2001-
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International Advisory Board, International Institute for Hermeneutics
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2002
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Overcoming Onto-Theology awarded Honorable Mention in the Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Book Awards
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2003-06
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Advisory Committee to Program Committee, Eastern Division, APA
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2003
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"Official opponent" at the defense by Jon Stewart of his second dissertation, Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered, Cambridge University Press, 2003, at the University of Copenhagen
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2003-
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Executive Committee, Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology
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2004
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Aquinas Medal & Aquinas Lecturer, University of Dallas
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Consultant for external review of doctoral program in philosophy, Baylor University
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Consultant for Senior Seminar Faculty Workshop, Hope College
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2004-07
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Executive Committee, Eastern Division, APA
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2005
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Consultant for external review of philosophy program, Loyola College in Maryland
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2005
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Consultant for external review of philosophy, graduate and undergraduate, at Boston College
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2007
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External reviewer and Chair of the Ten Year Review Committee for philosophy at Gordon College
Classical Philosophy Lecture, Loras College
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2007-2009
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Chair, Fordham University Press Board |
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2008
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External Examiner for Dissertation at National University of Ireland, Galway |
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Papers Presented at the Following Professional Meetings:
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1968
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APA
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1969
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Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference
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Metaphysical Society
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1970
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Calvin College Conference on Political Philosophy
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1971
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SPEP
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Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Conference on the Counter-Culture
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1972
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Ninth International Hegel Congress (Antwerp)
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1973
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APA
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1974
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Hegel Society of America
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SPEP
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1975
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Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference
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1976
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Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference
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SPEP
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1978
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APA
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1980
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APA
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AuSable Trails Institute of Environmental Studies - AuSable Forum
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1981
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AuSable Trails Institute of Environmental Studies - AuSable Forum
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College of the Holy Cross Conference on Phenomenology and Human Destiny
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Tenth Interamerican Congress of Philosophy (Tallahassee)
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1982
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APA
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Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference
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Hegel Society of America
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1983
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Hegel Society of Great Britain (Oxford)
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1984
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Hegel Society of America
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SPEP
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1985
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Society of Christian Philosophers
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APA (twice)
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AAR (Phenomenology and Theology Group)
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St. Olaf College Conference on Kierkegaard and Contemporary Philosophy
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Hillsdale College Conference on Personality Theory
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1986
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SPEP
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1987
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Merleau-Ponty Circle
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AAR (Nineteenth Century Theology Group)
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1988
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Notre Dame University Conference on Christian and Theistic Philosophy
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Cardozo Law School Conference on Hegel and the Philosophy of Law
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AAR (Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at Union Theological Seminary)
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St. Olaf College Conference on Kierkegaard as a Religious Thinker
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AAR (Theology and Postmodernism Consultation)
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1989
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AAR (Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at Bethlehem PA)
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University of Southern Mississippi Conference on Postmodernism and the Teaching of Religious Texts
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1989
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Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference
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AAR (Phenomenology and Theology Group)
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1990
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New Haven Theological Discussion Group
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Adelphi University Conference on Values in Teaching, Research, and Politics
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Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium (Philosophy of Religion Group)
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APA (Pacific Division)
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APA (Central Division)
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APA (Society for the Study of Process Philosophy)
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1991
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Adelphi University Conference on the Modern Condition
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Society of Christian Philosophers - Midwestern Region
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AAR (Phenomenology and Theology Group)
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1992
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Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference
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Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious
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Jaspers Society of North America
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1993
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Society of Christian Philosophers - Intermountain Region
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Society of Christian Philosophers - Eastern Region
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International Conference on Emmanuel Levinas (Loyola, Chicago)
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Universitas Forum - Messiah College
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Soren Kierkegaard Society
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Jacques Maritain Society
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APA (Eastern Division - invited paper)
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1994
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International Philosophical-Theological Conference on the Otherness of God - University of Virginia
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Wheaton College Center for Applied Christian Ethics: Trilogue Workshops on Greed, Fairness, and Generosity
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Society of Christian Philosophers - APA Central Division
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Michigan Regional Conference of Lilly Fellows Program: The Future of Christian Scholarship in a Post-Modern Age
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Wheaton College Conference on Hermeneutics and Christian Worldviews
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AAR - Philosophy of Religion Section
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1995
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Keynote Speaker - St. Louis University Graduate Student Conference on Postmodernism and Religious Faith
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New Haven Theological Discussion Group
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Society of Christian Philosophers - Eastern Region
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SPEP
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Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference
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AAR - Philosophy of Religion Section - Nineteenth Century Theology Group
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APA - invited paper on Kierkegaard's Postscript
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1996
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Texas Regional Conference of Lilly Fellows Program:
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Christian Scholarship in a Postmodern Era
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Villanova Conference to honor Larry Stepelevich
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Mercersburg Convocation
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Society of Christian Philosophers - APA Eastern Division
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1997
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Salisbury State University Spring Philosophy Symposium
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North American Christian Foreign Language Association
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APA (Central Division)
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Notre Dame Conference of Pew Evangelical Scholars Program
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Conference on Hermeneutics in a Broken World - Toronto Institute for Christian Studies
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Research Seminar, Soren Kierkegaard Center, Copenhagen
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Villanova conference on Religion and Postmodernism
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AAR - Philosophy of Religion Section - Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group
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Society of Christian Philosophers - APA Eastern Division
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1998
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New Haven Theological Discussion Group
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World Congress of Philosophy - American Organizing Committee Panel on Religious Pluralism
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World Congress of Philosophy - Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology
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Gordon College Center for Christian Studies Interdisciplinary Conference on Hermeneutics: Crossing the Boundaries
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Fourth Symposium of Sino-US Philosophy and Religious Studies, Beijing
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1999
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Society of Christian Philosophers - APA Pacific Division
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Association of Chinese Philosophers in America - APA Pacific Division
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Overseas Ministries Study Center Conference on Postmodernism
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Berkshire Institute for Theology and the Arts
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Hegel Society of Great Britain, Oxford
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Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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2000
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Enrico Castelli Institute for the Study of Philosophy, International Colloquium on Intersubjectivity and Philosophical Theology - Rome, Italy
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Conference in Honor of Cal Schrag - Purdue University
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International Conference on Schleiermacher's Philosophy - Drew University
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International Conference on Philosophy a?nd (sic) Religion - Sundance, Utah
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Northwest Society for Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Hermeneutics
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Hegel Society of America
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2001
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Conference at University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture - Beyond the Absolute and the Arbitrary: Exploring the Possibilities of Pragmatism
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Second International Conference of the Soren Kierkegaard Society of the UK, Leeds, England
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Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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International Colloquium on Immediacy and Reflection and Immediacy in Kierkegaard’s Thought, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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2002
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Twenty-third Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference: Language and Spirit, Claremont Graduate University School of Religion
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Keynote Address, Midwest Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Bethel College, St. Paul
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Plenary Address, First Annual Fordham Philosophical Society Graduate Philosophy Conference
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International Congress on Hermeneutics, St. Bonaventure University
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Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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American Catholic Philosophical Association
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Soren Kierkegaard Society at Eastern Division of APA
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2003
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Keynote Address, Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology, Villanova University
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Conference on Transcendence and Subjectivity, Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen
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Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, respondent in "author meets critics" session on Overcoming Onto-Theology
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Society for Christian Philosophy, meeting at the American Academy of Religion, respondent in "author meets critics" session on Overcoming Onto-Theology
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2004
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Keynote Address, Graduate Student Conference: Identifications: Faith, Theory, and Identity-Making, Purdue University
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Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing
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Conference on The Future of the Reformation Tradition, Concordia College (MN)
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2005
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Fides et Ratio Conference, St. John Vianney College Seminary, Miami
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International Conference in Commemoration of Emmanuel Levinas, Loyola College in Maryland
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The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians, University of Notre Dame
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Colloque International l"Idealisme Allemand et la Religion, Centre de Recherches sur Hegel et l’Idealisme Allemand, Poitiers, France
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Keynote Address, Graduate Student Conference: Existentialism: A philosophy with or without God?, St. Louis University
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Colloque International: Kierkegaard et la critique du religieux, Paris, France
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2006
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Keynote Address, Society of Christian Philosophers, Midwest Regional Meeting
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Keynote Lecture at International Conference on Belief and Metaphysics, Granada, Spain |
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Spindel Conference on the First-Person Perspective, University of Memphis |
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Lilly Fellows Program National Research Conference on The World and Christian Imagination, Baylor University |
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2007
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Keynote Address to Fordham/Antwerp Graduate Student Conference on The End of Secular Thought. |
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SPEP - response to Benson and Caputo in Scholar's Session |
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2008
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Dotterer Lecture, Penn State University
John Thompson Christian Philosophy Lecture, University of Dayton
European Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Conference on Sacrifice, University of Oslo, Norway |
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Editorial Activities
General Editor: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion
Board Member, Fordham University Press, 1991- 2009
Chair, 2006-2009
Editorial Board of:
Faith and Philosophy
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
International Philosophical Quarterly
The Owl of Minerva
African Philosophy
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
Analecta Hermeneutica
Scholarly Consultant for:
American Academy of Religion (Scholars Press)
Blackwell
Canada Council
Cambridge University Press
Eerdmans
Humanities Press
Indiana University Press
Macmillan
McGill-Queens University Press
Mercer University Press
National Endowment for the Humanities
Northwestern University Press
Ohio University Press
Oxford University Press
Penn State Press
Princeton University Press
Routledge
SUNY Press
Temple University Press
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Delaware Press
University of Florida Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Yale University Press
American Philosophical Quarterly
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
Christian Scholar's Review
Clio
Continental Philosophy Review
International Studies in Philosophy
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Journal of the History of Ideas
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Journal of Philosophical Research
Journal of Religious Ethics
Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Philosophy and Rhetoric
Zygon
Books Authored
History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology, Humanities Press, 1979. Second printing, 1982, with English edition by Harvester Press. Paperback edition with new Preface, 1990. Third edition, Indiana University Press, 1998.
With Ludwig, Klay, and Myers: Inflation, Poortalk, and the Gospel, Judson Press, 1981.
God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion, Indiana University Press, 1984, in the series, Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Paperback edition, 1987, by Midland Books and IUP.
Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society, Mercer University Press, 1987. Paperback edition by Penn State Press, 1991. (KCRS below).
Hegel, Freedom, and Modernity, SUNY Press, 1992. (HFM below).
Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism, Eerdmans, 1993. With a new introduction by Kelly James Clark, Fordham University Press, 1998.
Becoming a Self: A Reading of Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Purdue University Press, 1996.
Overcoming Onto-Theology, Fordham University Press, 2001.
Transcendence and Self-Transcendence, Indiana University Press, 2004.
Faith and Secular Philosophy in Dialogue (English translation of Chinese title. Volume contains 13 of my previously published essays or chapters in translation), ed. Hao Changchi, Chinese Social Sciences Press, 2005.
Levinas and Kierkegaard in Dialogue, Indiana University Press, 2008
Books Edited
Method and Speculation in Hegel's Phenomenology, Humanities Press, 1982.
Volume consultant for International Kierkegaard Commentary: Two Ages, ed. Robert L. Perkins. Mercer University Press, 1984.
With Cohen and Martin: Studies in the Philosophy of J. N. Findlay, SUNY Press, 1985.
With Caputo and Marsh: Modernity and Its Discontents, Fordham University Press, 1992.
With C. Stephen Evans: Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge, Eerdmans, 1993.
Special issue of Faith and Philosophy on the religious significance of contemporary continental philosophy, October, 1993.
With Martin Matuštík, Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity, Indiana University Press, 1995.
Volume consultant for International Kierkegaard Commentary: Concluding Unscientific Postscript, ed. Robert L. Perkins. Mercer University Press, 1997.
With Linda Martín Alcoff and Debra Bergoffen, Remembrance and Responsibility, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vol. 23, Philosophy Today, Vol. 41, Supplement 1997.
With Linda Martín Alcoff, Conflicts and Convergences, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vol. 24, Philosophy Today, Vol. 42, Supplement 1998.
Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought, Indiana University Press, 1999.
Essays Published
"Temporality and Finitism in Hartshorne's Theism," The Review of Metaphysics, XIX (March, 1966), 550-564.
"Theism and the Problems of Ethics," The Philosophy of Gordon Clark, Philadelphia, 1968, 176-201.
"In Defense of the Thing in Itself," Kant-Studien, 59/1 (1968), 118-41.
"On Thinking of God as King," Christian Scholar's Review, I (Fall, 1970), 27-34.
"Hegel, Pannenberg, and Hermeneutics," Man and World, IV (August, 1971), 276-93. (Reprinted in HFM).
"God as King: A Reply to Lewis Ford," Christian Scholar's Review, I (Summer, 1971), 323-24.
"Kierkegaard and the Logic of Insanity," Religious Studies, VII (September, 1971), 193-211. (Reprinted in KCRS).
"Hegel, Tillich, and the Secular," The Journal of Religion, LII (July, 1972), 223-39. (Reprinted in HFM).
"Verzeihung und Anarchie," Hegel Jahrbuch, 1972, 105-09.
Hegel's Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung," Materialien zu Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes, eds. Hans Friedrich Fulda and Dieter Henrich, Frankfort, 1973, 83-105. Reprinted as "Hegel's Phenomenology of Perception" in The Phenomenology of Spirit Reader, ed. Jon Stewart, Albany, 1997, 122-37.
Articles on "Alienation", "Bergson, Henri", and Nietzsche, Friedrich" in Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics, ed. Carl F. H. Henry, Grand Rapids, 1973.
"Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy of Religion Which Will Be Able to Come Forth as Prophecy, " International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, IV (Fall, 1973), 129-50. (Reprinted in KCRS).
"Hegel's Theory of Religious Knowledge," Beyond Epistemology: New Studies in the Philosophy of Hegel, ed. F. G. Weiss, The Hague, 1974, 30-57. (Reprinted in HFM).
Introduction to A. V. Miller's translation of Hegel's Foreword to Hinrichs' Die Religion im inneren Verhältnisse zure Wissenschaft, in Beyond Epistemology (see previous item), 221-27.
"Nietzsche and the Phenomenological Ideal," The Monist, LX (April, 1977), 278-88.
"Kierkegaard as a Prophetic Philosopher," Christian Scholar's Review, VII, 22-3 (1977), 109-18. (Reprinted in KCRS).
"The Phenomenology of Guilt and the Theology of Forgiveness," Crosscurrents in Phenomenology, eds. Ronald Bruzina and Bruce Wilshire, The Hague, 1978, 231-61.
"Sing Jubilee," The Other Side, March, 1978, 29-35. Reprinted in Man and Society: A Study in Hope, Grand Rapids, 1979, and in The Other Side, March, 1984.
"Why Gods Die," The Church Herald, March 9, 1979, 12-13.
"Advent Reflections on a Song and a Prophecy," Simply Beginning, eds. Phil Amerson and Judy Skovmand, Evansville, 1979.
"New Covenant Tithing," The Church Herald, Nov. 3, 1979, 4-7.
"Orthodoxy and Inattention," The Reformed Journal, XXX, 1 (January, 1980), 13-15.
"Hegel's Theory of the Concept," Art and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy, eds. Warren Steinkraus and Kenneth Schmitz, New Jersey, 1980, 103-119. (Reprinted in HFM and in Selected Essays on G.W.F.Hegel, ed. Lawrence S. Stepelevich, Atlantic Highlands, 1993, and in G.W.F. Hegel: Critical Assessments, Vol. III, ed. Robert Stern, London, 1993).
"Kierkegaard's Politics," Thought, LV (September, 1980), 320-32. (Reprinted in KCRS).
"Singing to Caesar," The Church Herald, December 12, 1980, 12-13.
"Pentecost and Patriotism," Of Wind and Fire, eds. Phil Amerson and Judy Skovmand, Evansville, 1981.
"Abraham and Hegel," Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: Critical Appraisals, ed. Robert L. Perkins, University AL, 1981, 62-80. Paperback edition, 1983. (Reprinted in KCRS).
"Three Dimensional Prayer," The Church Herald, October 2, 1981, 406. Reprinted in The Associate Reformed Presbyterian, February, 1982, 8-11 and in the John Milton Talking Magazine (for the blind), July, 1982.
"Cogito and Conversion: A Phenomenology of Prayer as Pre-Reflective Presence," Phenomenology and the Understanding of Human Destiny, ed. Stephen Skousgaard, Washington, D. C., 1981, 355-66.
"Practicing Three Dimensional Prayer," The Church Herald, December 11, 1981, 10-11, 27. Reprinted in The Associate Reformed Presbyterian, March, 1982, 8-10.
"Existentialism and Environmental Ethics, The Environmental Crisis: The Ethical Dilemma, ed. Edwin R. Squiers, Mancelona MI, 1982, 77-89.
"Corporations, the Commandments, and the Churches," pamphlet published by the Reformed Church in America, 1982.
"Warning: The Great Physician Has Determined that Wealth is Dangerous to Your Health," The Church Herald, January 21, 1983, 5-7.
Questions from the Prophets," The Living and Active Word of God: Studies in Honor of Samuel J. Schultz, Winona Lake IN, 1983, 59-73.
"The New Flight of the Owl at the End of the Hegel Revival: An Official Welcome to the New Owl from the President of the Hegel Society of America," The Owl of Minerva, XV, 1 (Fall, 1983), 5-10.
"Kierkegaard's Sociology," International Kierkegaard Commentary: Two Ages, ed. Robert L. Perkins, Macon GA, 1984, 133-54. (Reprinted in KCRS).
"Hegel and theReformation," History and System: Hegel's Philosophy of History, ed. Robert L. Perkins, Albany, 1984, 73-92. (Reprinted in HFM).
"Hegel's Radical Idealism: Family and State as Ethical Communities," The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel's Political Philosophy, ed. Zbigniew Pelczynski, New York, 1984, 77-92. (Reprinted in HFM).
"Dialectic and Intersubjectivity," The Owl of Minerva, XVI, 1 (Fall, 1984), 39-54. (Reprinted in HFM).
"Biblical Faith and our Economic Life" (served as anonymous author of this paper adopted by the Christian Action Commission of the Reformed Church in America), Minutes of General Synod, Reformed Church in America, Vol. LXIV, 1984, 51-68.
"A Dialectic of Dialecticians: Reflections on Hegel and Kierkegaard," Clio, XIII, 4 (Summer, 1984), 415-24.
"Donagan's Critique of Sittlichkeit," Idealistic Studies, XV, 1 (January, 1985), 1-17. (Reprinted in HFM).
"Recollection and Recognition in Findlay's Thought," Studies in the Philosophy of J. N. Findlay, eds. Cohen, Martin,and Westphal, Albany, 1985, 235-49.
"Pharaoh's Bankers," The Church Herald, September 20, 1985, 10-11.
"Ibsen, Hegel, and Nietzsche," Clio, XIV, 4 (Summer, 1985), 395-406.
"The Hermeneutics of Lent," Perspectives, February, 1986, 8-11.
"Living Lives in Grateful Obedience," The Church Herald, May 2, 1986, 5-7.
"Hegel and Gadamer," Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy, ed. Brice Wachterhauser, Albany, 1986, 65-86. (Reprinted in HFM).
"The Challenge of Liberation Theology," (served as anonymous author of this paper adopted by the Theology Commission of the Reformed Church in America), Minutes of General Synod, Reformed Church in America, Vol. XXVI, 1986, 301-21. Revised version in Vol. XVIII, 1988, 357-80.
"Barth's Critique of Religion," Perspectives, October, 1986, 4-6.
"Hegel, the Old Secularism, and the New Theocracy," presidential address to 1984 meeting of the Hegel Society of America, Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit, ed. Peter Stillman, Albany, 1987. (Reprinted in HFM).
"Taking Suspicion Seriously: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism," Faith and Philosophy, IV, 1 (January, 1987), 22-42.
"Philosophy, Faith, and Personality Theory," Man and Mind: A Christian Theory of Personality, ed. Thomas J. Burke, Hillsdale MI, 1987, 111-31.
"Christian Suffering: The Way of the Cross," Perspectives, March, 1987, 7-10.
"Hegel and Husserl: Transcendental Phenomenology and the Revolution Yet Awaited," Critical and Dialectical Phenomenology, eds. Donn Welton and Hugh J. Silverman, Albany, 1987, 103-135. (Reprinted in HFM).
"Kierkegaard's Psychology and Unconscious Despair," International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Sickness Unto Death, ed. Robert L. Perkins, Macon GA, 1987, 39-66.
"Hegel, Human Rights and the Hungry," Hegel on Economics and Freedom, ed. William Maker, Macon GA, 1987. (Reprinted in HFM).
"Prayer as Privilege," Perspectives (editorial), November, 1987, 3.
"Identity and Belonging," Perspectives (editorial), June, 1988, 3.
"Covenant as Concrete Affirmation," Perspectives, September, 1988, 4-7.
"Socrates Between Jeremiah and Descartes: The Dialectic of Self-Consciousness and Self-Knowledge," Philosophy and Theology, II, 3 (Spring, 1988), 199-219.
"Academic Excellence: Cliché or Humanizing Vision," Thought, LXIII, 251 (December, 1988), 348-57. Reprinted in Should God Get Tenure? Essays on Religion and Higher Education, ed. David W. Gill, Grand Rapids, 1997, 27-40.
"Hegel, Hinduism, and Freedom," The Owl of Minerva, 20, 2 (Spring, 1989), 193-204. (Reprinted in HFM).
"Hegel on Slavery, Independence, and Liberalism," Cardozo Law Review, 10, 5-6 (March/April, 1989), 1563-73.
"The Manager and the Church," Perspectives (editorial), June, 1989, 3.
"Paranoia and Piety: Reflections on the Schreber Case," in Psychoanalysis and Religion, eds. Joseph H. Smith and Susan A. Handelman, Baltimore, 1990, 117-35.
"Phenomenologies and Religious Truth," Phenomenology and the Truth Proper to Religion, ed. Daniel Guerrière, Albany, 1990, 105-25.
"Taking St. Paul Seriously: Sin as an Epistemological Category," Christian Philosophy, ed. Thomas Flint, Notre Dame IN, 1990, 200-226. Partially reprinted in Faith and Reason, ed. Paul Helm, New York, 1999, 355-57.
"Situation and Suspicion in the Thought of Merleau-Ponty: The Question of Phenomenology and Politics," Ontology and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty, eds. Galen Johnson and Michael Smith, Evanston IL, 1990, 158-79.
"Higher Education and Idolatry," Perspectives (editorial), November, 1990, 3.
"The Ostrich and the Boogeyman: Placing Postmodernism," Christian Scholar's Review, XX, 2 (1990), 114-17.
"The Fonda Fallacy," Perspectives (editorial), February, 1991, 3-4.
"A Lifestyle that Reflects Our Faith," The Church Herald, February, 1991, 15-17.
"Will the Real Audrey Hepburn . . ." Perspectives (editorial), May, 1991, 3.
"Kierkegaard's Phenomenology of Faith as Suffering," Writing the Politics of Difference, ed. Hugh Silverman, Albany, 1991, 55-71.
"Six Searing Words," Perspectives, September, 1991, 19-22 (under the pseudonym Laura Vander Veen).
"William Desmond's Humpty Dumpty Hegelianism," Clio, 20, 2 (Summer, 1991), 353-370.
"Kierkegaard's Teleological Suspension of Religiousness B," Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community, eds. George Connell and C. Stephen Evans, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1991.
"The Press Conference Magic Johnson Didn't Hold," Perspectives (editorial), January, 1992, 3-4
"The Cheating of Cratylus (Genitivus Subjectivus)" Modernity and Its Discontents, ed. Caputo, Marsh, and Westphal, New York, 1992, 163-82.
Preface to Modernity and its Discontents (see previous entry), ix-xiv.
"How Shall We Escape," Perspectives (editorial), April, 1992, 3-4.
"Religious Experience as Self-Transcendence and Self-Deception," Faith and Philosophy, 9, 2 (April, 1992), 168-92. Reprinted in Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology of Contemporary Views, ed. Melville Y. Steward, Boston, 1996, 263-287. Partially reprinted in Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, ed. Peterson, Hasker, Reichenbach, and Basinger, 2nd ed., New York, 2001, 56-64 and in Philosophy of Religion, ed. Melville Y. Steward and Xing Taotao, Peking, 2005, 181-98
"Levinas, Kierkegaard, and the Theological Task," Modern Theology, 8, 3 (July, 1992), 241-261. Reprinted in Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Vol. II, Levinas and the History of Philosophy, ed. Claire Katz and Lara Trout, New York, 2005, 325-46.
"A Reader's Guide to 'Reformed Epistemology,'" Perspectives, November, 1992, 10-13. Reprinted in Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship Bulletin, 10 (Jan/Feb, 1996).
"Saving Sola Scriptura from Rhem and the Rationalists," Perspectives, February, 1993, 10-11.
"As If You Really Meant It," Perspectives (editorial), March, 1993, 3.
"Of Bumper Stickers and Trolls," Perspectives (editorial), September, 1993, 3.
"Christian Philosophers and the Copernican Revolution" Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge, ed. C. Stephen Evans and Merold Westphal, Grand Rapids, 1993, 161-79.
"A User Friendly Copernican Revolution," APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, 99, 2 (Fall, 1993), 87-88. Reprinted in In the Socratic Tradition, ed. Tziporah Kasachkoff, Lanham, MD, 1998, 187-91.
"Hegel and Family Values," APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, 99, 2 (Fall, 1993), 100-101. Reprinted in In the Socratic Tradition, ed. Tziporah Kasachkoff, Lanham, MD, 1998, 209-13.
"Levinas and the Immediacy of the Face," Faith and Philosophy, 9, 4 (October, 1993), 486-502.
"The Canon as Flexible, Normative Fact," The Monist, 76, 4 (October, 1993), 436-49.
"Kierkegaard and the Anxiety of Authorship," International Philosophical Quarterly, XXXIV, 1 (March, 1994), 5-22. Reprinted in The Death and Resurrection of the Author, ed. William Irwin, Westport and London, 2002, 23-43
"Derrida as Natural Law Theorist," International Philosophical Quarterly, XXXIV, 2 (June, 1994), 247-52.
"Johannes and Johannes: Kierkegaard and Difference," International Kierkegaard Commentary: Philosophical Fragments and Johannes Climacus, ed. Robert L. Perkins, Macon, GA, 1994, 13-32.
"Hegel's Angst vor dem Sollen," The Owl of Minerva, 25, 2 (Spring, 1994), 187-94.
"Faith Seeking Understanding," God and the Philosophers, ed. Thomas V. Morris, New York, 1994), 215-26.
"The Tragedy of RMN," Perspectives (editorial), August/September, 1994, 6.
"Recognizing Greed, Nourishing Generosity" Discernment, 3, 2 (Spring, 1995), 4-7.
"Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory: An Essay on Appropriation," Pledges of Jubilee, ed. Lambert Zuidervaart and Henry Luttikhuizen, Grand Rapids, 1995, 107-125.
"Bourgeoisified Buber," Perspectives (editorial), August/September, 1995, 7-8.
"The Transparent Shadow: Kierkegaard and Levinas in Dialogue," Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity, ed. Matustik and Westphal, Bloomington, 1995, 265-81.
"Levinas' Teleological Suspension of the Religious," Ethics as First Philosophy: The Significance of Levinas for Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, ed. Adriaan T. Peperzak, New York, 1995, 151-60.
"Tis a Task to Be Simple," Perspectives (editorial), October, 1995, 9.
"Postmodernism andReligious Reflection," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 38, 1-3 (December, 1995), 127-43. Reprinted in God, Reason and Religions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion, ed. Eugene Thomas Long, Dordrecht, 1995, 127-43.
"Lest We Forget," Perspectives, February, 1996, 10-13.
"Idealism and/as Secularism," The New Mercersburg Review, 20 (Autumn, 1996), 17-28.
"Traditional Theism, the AAR, and the APA," God, Philosophy, and Academic Culture, ed. William J. Wainwright, Atlanta, 1996, 21-27.
"Laughing at Hegel," The Owl of Minerva, 28, 1 (Fall, 1996), 39-58.
"Through a Glass Darkly," an interview with Ben Lipscomb, Dialogue, 29/1 (Sept/Oct, 1996), 6-13.
"Phenomenology and Existentialism," A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Oxford, 1997.
"The Emergence of Modern Philosophy of Religion" A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Oxford, 1997.
"Onto-theo-logical Straw: Reflections on Presence and Absence," Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy, ed. Roman T. Ciapalo, Mishawaka, 1997, 258-67.
"Nietzsche as a Theological Resource," Modern Theology, 13, 2 (April, 1997), 213-26. Reprinted in Nietzsche and the Divine, ed. John Lippitt and Jim Urpeth, Manchester, 2000, 14-29.
"Positive Postmodernism as Radical Hermeneutics," The Very Idea of Radical Hermeneutics, ed. Roy Martinez, Atlantic Highlands, 1997.
"Philosophy as Vision and as Critique," The Recovery of Philosophy in America: Essays in Honor of John Edwin Smith, ed. Thomas P. Kasulis and Robert Cummings Neville, Albany, 1997.
"Appropriating the Atheists," an interview with Gary J. Percesepe, Books and Culture, May/June, 1997, 24-25.
"Appropriating Postmodernism" ARC, The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, 25 (1997), 73-84.
"Post-Kantian Reflections on the Importance of Hermeneutics," Disciplining Hermeneutics: Interpretation in Christian Perspective, ed. Roger Lundin, Grand Rapids, 1997, 57-66.
"Introduction," Reason, Experience, and God. ed. Vincent M. Colapietro, New York, 1997, 1-5.
"Theology as Talking about a God Who Talks," Modern Theology, 13, 4 (October, 1997), 525-36.
"Kierkegaard's Climacus: A Kind of Postmodernist," International Kierkegaard Commentary: Concluding Unscientific Postscript, ed. Robert L. Perkins, Macon, GA, 1997, 53-71.
"Heidegger's 'Theologische' Jugendschriften," Research in Phenomenology, XXVII, 1997, 247-61.
"Kierkegaard and Hegel," The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, ed. Alastair Hannay and Gordon D. Marino, New York, 1998.
"I Don't Want To Be Happy", Perspectives (editorial), January, 1998, 5-6.
"Kierkegaard," A Companion to Continental Philosophy, ed. Simon Critchley and Bill Schroeder, Oxford, 1997, 128-38.
"Postmodern Theology," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, New York, 1998, VII, 583-86.
"Phenomenology of Religion," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, New York, 1998, VII, 352-55.
"Levinas and the 'Logic' of Solidarity," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 1998, 20/2 & 21/1, 297-319.
"Commanded Love and Moral Autonomy: The Kierkegaard-Habermas Debate," Kierkegaard Studies, Yearbook 1998, 1-22. Reprinted in Ethical Perspectives, 1998, 5/4, 263-76.
"Faith as the Overcoming of Ontological Xenophobia," The Otherness of God, ed. Orrin Summerell, Charlottesville, 1998, 149-72.
With Debra Bergoffen: editors' introduction to Remembrance and Responsibility: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vol. 23, published as a supplement to Vol 41 of Philosophy Today, 1998.
With Linda Alcoff: editors' introduction to Conflicts and Convergences: selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vol. 24, published as a supplement to Vol 42 of Philosophy Today, 1998.
"Hermeneutics as Epistemology," The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, ed. John Greco and Ernest Sosa, Oxford, 1999, 415-35.
"Soren Kierkegaard," The Columbia History of Western Philosophy, ed. Richard H. Popkin, New York, 1999, 546-49.
"Taking Plantinga Seriously: Advice to Christian Philosophers," Faith and Philosophy, 16, 2 (April, 1999), 173-81.
"Von Hegel bis Hegel," The Emergence of German Idealism, ed. Michael Bauer and Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Washington, D.C., 1999, 269-87.
"Overcoming Onto-theology," God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, ed. John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon, Bloomington, 1999, 146-69.
"The Politics of Religious Pluralism," The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy: Volume 4, Philosophies of Religion, Art, and Creativity, ed. Kevin L. Stoehr, Bowling Green, 1999, 1-8.
"Commanded Love and Divine Transcendence in Kierkegaard and Levinas," The Face of the Other and the Trace of God: Essays on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, ed. Jeffrey Bloechl, New York, 2000, 200-233.
"Onto-theology, Metanarrative, Perspectivism and the Gospel," Perspectives, April, 2000, 6-10.Reprinted in Christianity and the Postmodern Turn: Six Views, ed. Myron B. Penner, Grand Rapids, 2005, 141-53.
"A Midrash of (and for) Hope," Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 18 (Fall, 2000), 16-24.
"Hegel and Onto-theology," Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Nos 41/42, 2000, 142-65.
"Chatter: The Protestant Ostinato," Perspectives (editorial), January, 2001, 3-4.
"Suspicion and Religious Belief" in a Chinese volume whose English translation is Lectures on European and American Philosophy and Religion, ed. Zhao Dunhua and Melville Y. Stewart, Peking, 2001, 194-205.
"The Trauma of Transcendence as Heteronomous Intersubjectivity." Intersubjectivité et théologie philosophique, ed. Marco M. Olivetti, Padova, 2001, 87-110.
"Reading God the Author," Religious Studies, 37 (2001), 272-91.
"Kierkegaard, Socratic Irony, and Deconstruction," International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Concept of Irony, ed. Robert L. Perkins, Macon, 2001, 365-90.
"Coping and Conversation: The Limits and Promise of Pragmatism," The Hedgehog Review, 3, 3 (Fall, 2001), 73-92.
"Postnodernism" (encyclopedia article), The New Dictionary of Pastoral Studies, ed. Wesley Carr et al., Grand Rapids and London, 2002, 273.
Preface to Gabriel Marcel, Creative Fidelity, reissue of 1964 translation by Robert Rosthal, New York, 2002, ix-xvii.
"Hermeneutical Finitude from Schleiermacher to Derrida," Between the Human and the Divine: Philoso[hical and Theological Hermeneutics, ed. Andrzej Wiercinski,Toronto, 2002, 50-65.
"Transcendence, Heteronomy, and the Birth of the Responsible Self," Calvin O. Schrag and the Task of Philosophy after Postmodernity, ed. Martin Beck Matuštík and William L. McBride, Evanston, 2002, 201-25.
"Hegel Between Spinoza and Derrida," Hegel’s History of Philosophy: New Interpretations, ed. David A. Duquette, Albany, 2002, 143-63.
"The Search for a Postmodern Ethics," Research in Phenomenology, 32 (2002), 249-57.
"Soren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments: Making Things Difficult for the System and for Christendom, "The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader’s Guide, ed. Jorge J.E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg, Bernard N. Schumacher, Oxford, 2002, 388-94.
"Jaspers’s Reception of Kierkegaard," Karl Jaspers on Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy, ed. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. and Raymond J. Langley, Amherst, NY, 2003, 223-35.
"Faith at the Beach," Perspectives, March, 2003, 18-19.
"Whose Philosophy? Which Religion? Reflections on Reason as Faith," Transcendence in Philosophy and Religion, ed. James E. Faulconer, Bloomington, 2003, 13-34.
"Postmodernism and Ethics: The Case of Caputo, "A Passion for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus, ed. Mark Dooley, Albany, 2003, 153-70.
"The God Who Will Be: Hermeneutics and The God of Promise," Faith and Philosophy, 20, 3 (July 2003), 328-44..
"Blind Spots: Christianity and Postmodern Philosophy," The Christian Century, June 14, 2003, 32-35. "Merold Westphal Replies" to Douglas Groothuis, "Postmodern fallacies: a response to Merold Westphal," The Christian Century, July 26, 2003, 42-43
Interview on the phenomenology of religion with Professor GaoBingjiang in Philosophical Trends (Chinese language journal), 2003 (8), 36-39.
"Kierkegaard and the Role of Reflection in Second Immediacy, "Immediacy and Reflection in Kierkegaard’s Thought, ed. P. Cruysberghs, J. Taels, and K. Verstrynge, Leuven, 2003, 159-79.
"Hegel" (The Hermeneutics of 'Christian' Pantheism), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology, ed. Gareth Jones, Oxford, 2004, 293-310.
"The Fonda Fallacy All Over Again" (editorial)," Mississippi Review, www.mississippireview.com, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2004, no pages.
"Speech from Beyond the Reach of Language: A Response to Zhang Xianglong," Chinese Philosophy in an Era of Globalization, ed. Robin R. Wang, Albany, 2004, 215-29
"Kierkegaard on Language and Spirit," Language and Spirit, ed. D. Z. Phillips and Mario von der Ruhr, New York, 2004, 64-90.
"Continental Philosophy," DVD Video with Alexander Nehamas in the Great Ideas of Philosophy series, produced by Films for the Humanities and Sciences, www.films.com.
"The Return of the Arrogance of Power," Mississippi Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Fall, 2004), 209-212.
"In God We Trust: Biblical Interpretation and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion," The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith, Grand Rapids, 2004, 98-108.
"Kierkegaard’s Religiousness C: A Defense," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4, Issue 176 (December 2004), 535-48.
"Kenosis and Offense: A Kierkegaardian Look at Divine Transcendence," International Kierkegaard Commentary: Practice in Christianity, ed. Robert L. Perkins,Macon, 2004, 19-46
"The Christian Uses of Secular Postmodernism," Revista Portuguesa de Filosophia, Vol 60 (2004), 845-869. Reprinted in Iqbal review: journal of the Iqbal Academuy Pakistan, Special Issue on Study the Religions Other, April & October, 2005, 119-37.
"Shame as a Political Virtue," Religion in the Liberal Polity, ed. Terence Cuneo, Notre Dame, 2005, 231-49.
"Not About Me," Christian Century, 122/7 (April 5, 2005), 20-25,
"Continental Philosophy of Religion," The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion, ed. William J. Wainwright, New York, 2005, 472-93.
"Interview with Merold Westphal," The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter, 13 (2004-2005), 26-30.
"Writing as an Act of Faith," The Cresset, Trinity, 2005, 5-8.
"Of Stories and Language," Christianity and the Postmodern Turn: Six Views, ed. Myron B. Penner, Grand Rapids, 2005, 229-40.
"Reply to Jack Caputo," Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 22, No 3 (July 2005), 297-300.
"Participation and Kenosis: A List for Schindler," The Saint Anselm Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall, 2005), http://www.anselm.edu/library/SAJ/SAJindex.html.
"Transfiguration as Saturated Phenomenon," Between Description and Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology, ed. Andrzej Wiercinski, Toronto, 2005, 501-512. An earlier, shorter version of this essay is found in Journal of Philosophy and Scripture, www.philosophyandscripture.org, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2003, no pages.
"Onto-Theology" (encyclopedia entry), Dictionary for theological interpretation of the Bible, ed. Kevin J. Vanhoozer et al. Grand Rapids, 2005, 546-49.
"Prayer as the Posture of the Decentered Self" The Phenomenology of Prayer, ed. Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba, New York, 2005, 13-31.
"Becoming Real -- With Style," Styles of Piety, ed. S. Clark Buckner and Matthew Statler, New York, 2006, 76-93.
"Hermeneutics and the God of Promise," After God:Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy, ed. John Panteleimon Manoussakis, New York, 2006, 78-93.
"Aquinas and Onto-theology," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 80, No. 2 (Spring, 2006), 173-91.
"The Privilege of Touching," Perspectives (editorial), June/July, 2006, 3-4.
"Vision and Voice: Phenomenology and Theology in the Work of Jean-Luc Marion,"
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 60, No. 1-3 (December, 2006), 117-37.
"The Importance of Overcoming Metaphysics for the Life of Faith," Modern
Theology, Vol. 23, No. 2 (April, 2007), 253-78.
"The Prereflective Cogito as Contaminated Opacity," The Southern Journal of
Philosophy, Vol. XLV (2007) Supplement, 152-77.
“Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion,” Twentieth
Century Philosophies, ed. Constantin V. Boundas, Edinburgh, 2007, 603-14.
“Hermeneutics, Scripture & Faithful Philosophizing: An Interview with Merold
Westphal," Journal of Philosophy & Scripture, www.philosophyandscripture.org,
Vol. 4, Issue 1 (2007), 26-40.
“The Importance of Mystery for the Life of Faith,” Faith and Philosophy, Vol
24, No. 4 (Oct.2007), 367-84.
“The welcome wound; emerging from the il y a otherwise,” Continental Philosophy Review,
Vol. 40 (2007), 211-30. Also at, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11007-006-9037-y.
“Paganism in Christendom,” International Kierkegaard Commentary: Christian
Discourses and The Crisis in the Life of an Actress, ed. Robert L. Perkins,
Macon, 2007, 13-33. Also: "Le paganisme dans la chrétienté," Nordiques
(special issue - "Soren Kierkegaard et la critique du religieux"), No. 10
(Printemps-Été, 2006), 101-118.
“Phenomenology of Religion,” The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion,
ed.Chad Meister and Paul Copan, London, 2007, 661-71.
“Theological Anti-Realism,” Realism and Religion: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives,
ed. Andrew Moore and Michael Scott, Aldershot, UK, 2007, 131-46.
”Kierkegaard, Soren,” Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Academic Edition,
http://search.eb.com/storepassword, 2007.
“Intentionality and Transcendence,” Subjectivity and Transcendence, ed. Arne
Grøn, Iben Damgaard, and Søren Overgaard, Tübingen, 2007.
“Atheism for Lent,”http://www.theotherjournal.com/article.php?id=301, Issue
11, Feb. 20, 2008.
“Ricoeur’s Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Religion,” Reading Ricoeur, ed.
David M. Kaplan, Albany, 2008.
Essays Forthcoming
"The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard"
"L’autre critique kierkegaardienne de Hegel"
"Thinking about God and God-talk with Levinas"
"The End of Secular Thought?"
Book Reviews
Religion and Judgment, by Willard Arnett, in The Journal of Religion, January, 1967.
The Historian and the Believer, by Van Harvey, in Religious Studies, October, 1968.
The Emergence of Philosophy of Religion, by James Collins, in Religious Studies, October, 1968.
Poetry, Language, and Thought, by Martin Heidegger, in Anglican Theological Review, July, 1972.
Belief in God and The Rationality of Belief in God, by George Mavrodes, in Christian Scholar's Review, 1973 (III, 1).
Hegel, by Raymond Plant, in The Owl of Minerva, June, 1974.
Logic and Reality, by Leslie Armour, in International Philosophical Quarterly, March, 1975.
Hegel: The Essential Writings, edited by Frederick Weiss, in The Owl of Minerva, June, 1975.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Commentary on the Preface and Introduction, by Werner Marx, in The Owl of Minerva, March, 1976.
Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, by Jean Hyppolite, in The Philosophical Review, October, 1976.
Truth and Method, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies, by Hans-Georg Gadamer, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1977 (VIII, 1).
A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, by Quentin Lauer, in Religious Studies, September, 1977.
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity, by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, and A Socio-Theology of Letting-Go: The Role of a First World Church Facing Third World Peoples, by Marie Augusta Neal, in Christian Scholar's Review, 1978 (VIII, 1).
Post-Theistic Thinking:The Marxist Christian Dialogue in Radical Perspective, by Thomas Dean, in Christian Scholar's Review, 1978 (VIII, 2).
Hegel's Phenomenology, Part I: Analysis and Commentary, by Howard Kainz, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1987 (IX, 3).
Feuerbach, by Marx Wartofsky, in The Owl of Minerva, December, 1978.
The Worldly Evangelicals, by Richard Quebedeaux, in Reformed Review, 1979 (32,3).
Theology and the Philosophy of Science, by Wolfhart Pannenberg, in Christian Scholar's Review, 1979 (IX, 1).
Good Work, by E. F. Schumacher, in Sojourners, December, 1979.
The Search for America's Faith, by George Gallup, Jr. and David Poling, and Ministry in America, by Strommen, Shuller, and Brekke, in Sojourners, May, 1981.
Earth Keeping: Christian Stewardship of Natural Resources, by Loren Wilkinson, in TSF Bulletin, September/October, 1981.
Kierkegaard and Christendom, by John Elrod, in Sojourners, November, 1981.
The Christology of Hegel, by James Yerkes, in Clio, 1981 (10, 1).
Kierkegaard's Relation to Hegel, by Niels Thulstrup, in Christian Scholar's Review, 1981 (XI, 1).
Nietzsche, Vol. I, The Will to Power as Art, by Martin Heidegger, in Christian Scholar's Review, 1981 (XI, 1).
Freedom of Simplicity, by Richard J. Foster, in The Church Herald, January 8, 1982.
A Materialist Reading of the Gospel of Mark, by Fernando Belo, in Sojourners, February, 1982.
Kant and the Problem of History, by William Galston, in Independent Journal of Philosophy, 1983 (IV).
Consequences of Pragmatism, by Richard Rorty, in Christian Scholar's Review, 1984 (XIII, 2).
Darstellung, Methode und Struktur: Untersuchungen zur Einheit der systematischen Philosophie G. W. F. Hegels, by L. Bruno Puntel, in Contemporary German Philosophy, 1984 (3).
Role Playing and Identity, by Bruce Wilshire, in Christian Scholar's Review, 1984 (XIV, 3).
Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche Without Masks, by Ophelia Schutte, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1984 (XVI).
Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, eds. Plantinga and Wolterstorff, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1984 (XVI).
Luther und Hegel: Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung einer neuen systematischen Theologie, by Ulrich Asendorf in Religious Studies Review, 1984 (10, 4).
The Quest for Wholeness, by Carl Vaught, in Process Studies, 1985 (14, 3).
Three Essays, 1973-75: The Tbingen Essay, Berne Fragments, The Life of Jesus by G. W. F. Hegel, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1985 (18).
Gesammelte Werke, Bd. 9, Phänomenologie des Geistes, by G. W. F. Hegel, in Clio, 1985 (XIV, 4).
The Politics of Salvation: The Hegelian Idea of the State, by Paul Lakeland, in The Owl of Minerva, Spring, 1986.
Apartheid is a Heresy, eds. de Gruchy and Villa-Vicencio and A Moment of Truth: The Confession of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church, 1982, eds. Clote and Smit, in Perspectives, May, 1986.
Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts (Jena 1801-1806), by H. S. Harris, in Idealistic Studies, 1986 (XVI, 2).
Hegel's Concept of God, by Quentin Lauer, in International Studies in Philosophy, 1986 (XVIII, 1).
Vatican II and Phenomenology: Reflections on the Life-World of the Church, by John F. Kobler, in The Reformed Journal, December, 1986.
Hegel's Quest for Certainty, by Joseph C. Flay, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1986 (XXIV, 3).
Jesus, Liberation, and the Biblical Jubilee: Images for Ethics and Christology, by Sharon H. Ringe, in Perspectives, January, 1987.
Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope, by David Tracy, in The Reformed Journal, October, 1987.
Flannery O'Conner: Images of Grace, by Harold Fickett and Douglas R. Gilbert, in Perspectives, November, 1987.
The Subversion of Christianity, by Jacques Ellul, in Perspectives, January, 1988.
Hermeneutics and the Sociology of Knowledge, by Susan Hekman, in Christian Scholar's Review, 1988 (XVII, 4).
The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right, by Paul Edward Gottfried, in The Owl of Minerva, Spring, 1989.
Hegel, Hinrichs, and Schleiermacher:The Texts of Their 1821-22 Debate, translated by Eric von der Luft, in The Owl of Minerva, Spring, 1989.
Post-Modern Uses of the Bible: The Emergence of Reader-Oriented Criticism, by Edgar McKnight, in Perspectives, June, 1989.
Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason, by David Ingram, in International Philosophical Quarterly, 1989 (XXIX, 3).
Until Justice and Peace Embrace, by Nicholas Wolterstorff, in Perspectives, November, 1989.
Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy, by Robert McAfee Brown, in Perspectives, November, 1989.
Critique of Cynical Reason, by Peter Sloterdijk, in International Philosophical Quarterly, 1989 (XXIX, 4).
Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Criticism of Metaphysics, by Stephen Houlgate, in The Heythrop Journal, January, 1990.
Philosophers of Consciousness:Polanyi, Lonergan, Voegelin, Ricoeur, Girard, Kierkegaard, by Eugene Webb, in Theological Studies, March, 1990.
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness: An Essay in Origins, by William Desmond, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1990 (27).
Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus, by Ched Myers, in Perspectives, October, 1990.
Why Narrative? Readings in Narrative Theology, eds. Hauerwas and Jones, in Perspectives, December, 1990.
Hegel's Trinitarian Claim: A Critical Reflection, by Dale M. Schlitt. O. M. I., in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Summer, 1990.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, by Martin Heidegger, in International Philosophical Quarterly, 1990 (XXX, 4).
The Holy Spirit and Liberation, by José Comblin, in Perspectives, January, 1991.
Exceedingly Nietzsche: Aspects of Contemporary Nietzsche Interpretation, eds. David Farrell Krell and David Wood, in The Heythrop Journal, 1991 (XXXII, 2).
Spirit and Existence, by Michael Gelven, in The Review of Metaphysics, 1991.
Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings, ed. Daniel Breazeale, in International Philosophical Quarterly, 1991 (XXXI, 1).
Justice, Gender, and the Family, by Susan Moller Okin, in Perspectives, October, 1991.
Preface and Introduction to the Phenomenology of Mind, ed. Lawrence Stepelevich, in The Owl of Minerva, 1991 (23, 1).
Hegel's Ethical Thought, by Allen W. Wood, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, April, 1992 (XXX, No. 2)
Die Liebe und das Sein, by L. Gondos-Grünhut, in International Philosophical Quarterly, September, 1992 (XXXII, 3).
Transforming Vision: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith, by Jamie Ferreira, in Theological Studies, September, 1992.
International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Corsair Affair, ed. Robert L. Perkins, in Soren Kierkegaard Newsletter, November, 1992 (No. 26).
Hegel's Critique of Liberalism: Rights in Context, by Stephen B. Smith, in International Philosophical Quarterly, December, 1992 (XXXII, 4).
International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Corsair Affair, ed. Robert L. Perkins, in The Kierkegaard Newsletter, November, 1992 (26).
Faith and Reason from Plato to Plantinga, by Dewey J. Hoitenga, Jr., in Theology Today, January, 1993 (49, 4).
Holism: A Shopper's Guide, by Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore, in International Philosophical Quarterly, June, 1993 (XXXIII, 2).
Kierkegaard and Kant: the Hidden Debt, by Ronald M. Green, in Theological Studies, June, 1993 (54, 2).
Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas, by Robert Gibbs, in International Philosophical Quarterly, December, 1993 (XXXIII, 4).
Fichte: Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy: (Wissenschaftslehre) Nova Methodo (1796/99), ed. and trans. Dan Breazeale, in International Philosophical Quarterly, June, 1994 (XXXXIV, 2).
Oneself as Another, by Paul Ricoeur, in International Philosophical Quarterly, September, 1994 (XXXIV, 3).
Hegel on Logic and Religion: The Reasonableness of Christianity by John W. Burbidge, in International Studies in Philosophy, 1994 (XXVI, 4).
Kierkegaard as Negative Theologian, by David R. Law, in Modern Theology, April, 1995 (11, 2).
Living Poetically: Kierkegaard's Existential Aesthetics, by Sylvia Walsh, in Philosophy and Literature, October, 1995 (19, 2)
The Christian God, by Richard Swinburne, in The Review of Metaphysics, December, 1995 (XLIX, 2).
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, ed. Gharles B. Guignon, in APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Spring, 1996 (95, 2)
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, ed. Frederick C. Beiser, in APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Spring, 1996 (95, 2)
Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker, by David. J. Gouwens, in Theological Studies, December, 1996 (57, 4).
International Kierkegaard Commentary Vol. 3 Either/Or, Part I Vol. 4 Either/Or, Part II, ed. Robert L. Perkins, in International Philosophical Quarterly, June, 1997 (XXXVII, 2)
Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis, by L Gregory Jones, in Pro Ecclesia, Spring, 1997 (VI, 2).
Against Ethics, by John D. Caputo, in Philosophy and Social Criticism, 1997 (23, 4).
Divine Discourse: Philosophical reflections on the claim that God speaks by Nicholas Wolterstorff, in Perspectives, March, 1998.
Kierkegaard, by Julia Watkin, in International Philosophical Quarterly, June, 1998 (XXXVIII, 2)
Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics, by Nancey Murphy, in Faith and Philosophy, April, 1999 (16, 2).
Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak, in Continental Philosophy Review, 1999 (32)
Martyrs:Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith, ed. Sustan Bergman, in Perspectives, June/July, 1999
Entre Nous: Thinking of the Other, by Emmanuel Levinas, in Modern Theology, July, 1999 (15, 3).
Of God Who Comes to Mind, by Emmanuel Levinas, in Modern Theology, October, 1999 (15, 4).
The Postmodern God: A Theological Reader, ed. Graham Ward, in Philosophia Christi, 1999 (2,1,2).
Dialectic and Gospel in the Development of Hegel's Thinking by Stephen Crites, in The Journal of Religion, April, 2000 (80, 2).
Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga, in Modern Theology, January, 2001 (17, 1).
International Kierkegaard Commentary: Works of Love ed. Robert L. Perkins, in International Philosophical Quarterly, December 2001 (XLI, 4)
Hegel’s Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit by Michael Forster, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, September, 2002 (LXV, 2)
Speech and Theology: Language and the logic of incarnation by James K. A. Smith, in Modern Theology, April, 2004 (20, 2)
Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered by Jon Stewart, in Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, September, 2004 (No.48)
Modern Freedom: Hegel’s Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy by Adriaan T. Peperzak, in The Owl of Minerva, Fall/Winter 2004/05 (36, 1).
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