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Dr. Merold Westphal |
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Philosophical Interests
Primary: Continental philosophy from Kant to the present: n the historical development and systematic integrity of individual thinkers and the dialogue or debate between pairs of thinkers n their contributions to the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and aesthetics n their contributions to issues of philosophical methodology in terms of dialectical holism, ideology critique, existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, etc. Other interests: n Augustine n Spinoza n political theory n Eastern philosophy, especially Hindu and Buddhist
Teaching Appointments
1964-65 Instructor in Philosophy, Wheaton College 1966-67 Instructor in Philosophy, Yale University 1967-72 Assistant Professor, Yale 1972-74 Associate Professor, Yale 1974-76 Visiting Associate Professor, SUNY, Purchase 1976-87 Professor of Philosophy, Hope College Chair 1977-86 1981-82 J. Omar Good Distinguished Visiting Professor, Juniata College 1984, 86 (Summer) Adjunct Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary 1986 (Fall) Visiting Professor, Fordham University 1987-97 Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University 1989 (Fall) Cardin Chair in the Humanities (Visiting), Loyola College in Maryland 1997- Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University
1998 (Summer) Pew Younger Scholars Program at Notre Dame: Seminar on Hermeneutics and Deconstruction 1998 (Summer) Adjunct Faculty Member, Fuller Theological Seminary 1999 (Fall) Visiting Professor in Christian Philosophy, Villanova University 2001 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Harvard Divinity School 2001 (Summer) Adjunct Faculty Member, Fuller Theological Seminary Other Appointments, Awards, Etc.
1962-63 Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Yale 1967-74 Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale 1968-76 Danforth Associate 1971-72 Morse Fellowship, grant from Yale for leave at U. of Heidelberg 1974 Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecturer at Messiah College, Grantham and Philadelphia PA 1974-78 Executive Council, Hegel Society of America 1976-78 Program Chair and editor of the Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America 1978-80 Vice President, Hegel Society of America 1979 Staley Lecturer at Bates College 1980-83 Board Member, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility 1980 History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology selected for Choice magazine's "Outstanding Academic Books of the Year" Award 1982-84 President, Hegel Society of America 1984-90 Theological Commission, Reformed Church in America 1985 Belgum Lecturer, St. Olaf College 1985-94 Founding member, editorial board of Perspectives 1985-88 Executive Committee, Society of Christian Philosophers 1986-87 Advisory Committee, Midwest Faculty Seminar (U. of Chicago) 1986-87 President, Soren Kierkegaard Society 1986 God, Guilt, and Death selected by the American Academy of Religion for its first annual book award in the category of Constructive-Reflective Studies 1987 Annual Lectureship in Christianity and Learning, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto 1987 Council for Philosophical Studies - Visiting Philosopher Program - Bethel College 1988 Council for Philosophical Studies - Visiting Philosopher Program - jointly at Cedarville College and Wittenberg University
1989-90 American Philosophical Association/Association of American Colleges Philosophy Task Force for the Project, "Liberal Learning and Study in Depth in the Arts and Sciences" 1989 Keynote Lecturer, Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference 1990-95 Director of Graduate Studies, Fordham University 1990 Annual Cardin Lecture on Jewish-Christian Relations at Loyola College in Maryland 1990 Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Religion and Society in Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard 1990 Program Committee, Hegel Society of America 1990-93 Executive Committee, Soren Kierkegaard Society 1991-92 Program Chair, American Philosophical Association, Central Division 1991-94 Program Chair, Soren Kierkegaard Society for meetings at the three divisions of the APA 1991-94 Executive Committee, SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) 1991-95 Co-Chair of Group on Continental Philosophy and Theology, AAR 1992 Program Committee, Hegel Society of America 1992 Annual Faith and Philosophy Lecture, North Park College 1993-96 Member APA National Board, Chair - Committee on Career Opportunities Ombudsperson for Hiring Process 1993 McManus Lectures, Wheaton College 1993-94 Co-Chair, Task Force on Faculty Identity, Fordham University Self-Study for Middle States Reaccreditation 1994 Suspicion and Faith selected by Christianity Today for one of its Critic's-Choice Book Awards in the Theology and Biblical Studies Category 1994-96 Member Advisory Committee of APA National Board 1995 Roy Wood Sellars Lectureship, Bucknell University 1995-98 Executive Co-Director, SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) 1995- International Advisory Board, Kluwer Handbook for the Philosophy of Religion in the Twentieth Century, six volumes. 1996 Staley Lecturer at Concordia College (MN) 1996 External Evaluator, Philosophy program at Concord-ia College (MN) 1996 Director, Calvin College Summer Seminar for College Faculty: Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought 1996 Lecturer for the Academic Speakers Honors Seminar Program, University of Tennessee at Martin 1997 External Evaluator, Philosophy program at Stetson University 1997-9 Nominating Committee, Eastern Division, APA 1999 Jellema Lectures, Calvin College 1999 Director, Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers Seminar on Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought 1999-2002 SPEP Advocacy Committee 1999 Becoming a Self selected by Alpha Sigma Nu, the National Jesuit Honor Society for Notable Book Status award. 2000 Fordham Graduate School Teaching Award Norton Lectures, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville Toulouse Lectures, Seattle University Lectures at L'Abri Fellowship, Huemoz, Switzerland Hartshorne Lecture, Colgate University 2001-2003 Program Committee, Eastern Division, APA 2001- International Advisory Board, International Institute for Hermeneutics
Papers Presented at the Following Professional Meetings:
1968 APA 1969 Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference Metaphysical Society 1970 Calvin College Conference on Political Philosophy 1971 SPEP Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Conference on the Counter-Culture 1972 Ninth International Hegel Congress (Antwerp) 1973 APA 1974 Hegel Society of America SPEP 1975 Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference 1976 Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference SPEP 1978 APA 1980 APA AuSable Trails Institute of Environmental Studies - AuSable Forum 1981 AuSable Trails Institute of Environmental Studies - AuSable Forum College of the Holy Cross Conference on Phenomenology and Human Destiny Tenth Interamerican Congress of Philosophy (Tallahassee) 1982 APA Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference Hegel Society of America 1983 Hegel Society of Great Britain (Oxford) 1984 Hegel Society of America SPEP 1985 Society of Christian Philosophers APA (twice) AAR (Phenomenology and Theology Group) St. Olaf College Conference on Kierkegaard and Contemporary Philosophy Hillsdale College Conference on Personality Theory 1986 SPEP 1987 Merleau-Ponty Circle AAR (Nineteenth Century Theology Group) 1988 Notre Dame University Conference on Christian and Theistic Philosophy Cardozo Law School Conference on Hegel and the Philosophy of Law AAR (Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at Union Theological Seminary) St. Olaf College Conference on Kierkegaard as a Religious Thinker AAR (Theology and Postmodernism Consultation)
1989 AAR (Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at Bethlehem PA) University of Southern Mississippi Conference on Postmodernism and the Teaching of Religious Texts Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference AAR (Phenomenology and Theology Group) 1990 New Haven Theological Discussion Group Adelphi University Conference on Values in Teaching, Research, and Politics Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium (Philosophy of Religion Group) APA (Pacific Division) APA (Central Division) APA (Society for the Study of Process Philosophy) 1991 Adelphi University Conference on the Modern Condition Society of Christian Philosophers - Midwestern Region AAR (Phenomenology and Theology Group) 1992 Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious Jaspers Society of North America 1993 Society of Christian Philosophers - Intermountain Region Society of Christian Philosophers - Eastern Region International Conference on Emmanuel Levinas (Loyola, Chicago) Universitas Forum - Messiah College Soren Kierkegaard Society Jacques Maritain Society APA (Eastern Division - invited paper) 1994 International Philosophical-Theological Conference on the Otherness of God - University of Virginia Wheaton College Center for Applied Christian Ethics: Trilogue Workshops on Greed, Fairness, and Generosity Society of Christian Philosophers - APA Central Division Michigan Regional Conference of Lilly Fellows Program: The Future of Christian Scholarship in a Post-Modern Age Wheaton College Conference on Hermeneutics and Christian Worldviews AAR - Philosophy of Religion Section 1995 Keynote Speaker - St. Louis University Graduate Student Conference on Postmodernism and Religious Faith New Haven Theological Discussion Group Society of Christian Philosophers - Eastern Region SPEP Wheaton College Annual Philosophy Conference AAR - Philosophy of Religion Section - Nineteenth Century Theology Group APA - invited paper on Kierkegaard's Postscript
1996 Texas Regional Conference of Lilly Fellows Program: Christian Scholarship in a Postmodern Era Villanova Conference to honor Larry Stepelevich Mercersburg Convocation Society of Christian Philosophers - APA Eastern Division 1997 Salisbury State University Spring Philosophy Symposium North American Christian Foreign Language Association APA (Central Division) Notre Dame Conference of Pew Evangelical Scholars Program Conference on Hermeneutics in a Broken World - Toronto Institute for Christian Studies Research Seminar, Soren Kierkegaard Center, Copenhagen Villanova conference on Religion and Postmodernism AAR - Philosophy of Religion Section - Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group Society of Christian Philosophers - APA Eastern Division 1998 New Haven Theological Discussion Group World Congress of Philosophy - American Organizing Committee Panel on Religious Pluralism World Congress of Philosophy - Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology Gordon College Center for Christian Studies Interdisciplinary Conference on Hermeneutics: Crossing the Boundaries Fourth Symposium of Sino-US Philosophy and Religious Studies, Beijing 1999 Society of Christian Philosophers - APA Pacific Division Association of Chinese Philosophers in America - APA Pacific Division Overseas Ministries Study Center Conference on Postmod-ernism Berkshire Institute for Theology and the Arts Hegel Society of Great Britain, Oxford Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 2000 Enrico Castelli Institute for the Study of Philosophy, International Colloquium on Intersubjectivity and Philosophical Theology - Rome, Italy Conference in Honor of Cal Schrag - Purdue University International Conference on Schleiermacher's Philosophy - Drew University International Conference on Philosophy a?nd (sic) Religion - Sundance, Utah Northwest Society for Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Hermeneutics Hegel Society of America 2001 Conference at University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture - Beyond the Absolute and the Arbitrary: Exploring the Possibilities of Pragmatism Second International Conference of the Soren Kierkegaard Society of the UK, Leeds, England Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy International Colloquium on Immediacy and Reflection and Immediacy in Kierkegaard’s Thought, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Editorial Activities
General Editor: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion
Board Member, Fordham University Press, 1991-
Editorial Board of: Faith and Philosophy International Journal for Philosophy of Religion International Philosophical Quarterly The Owl of Minerva African Philosophy
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.
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 the Reformation," 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. Silvlerman, 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. Forthcoming in the Chinese translation of this volume. Partially reprinted in Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, ed. Peterson, Hasker, Reichenbach, and Basinger, 2nd ed., New York, 2001, 56-64.
"Levinas, Kierkegaard, and the Theological Task," Modern Theology, 8, 3 (July, 1992), 241-261.
"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.
"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 and Religious 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. "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.
"Divine Excess: The God Who Comes After"," The Religious, ed. John D. Caputo, London, 2001, 258-276.
"Coping and Conversation: The Limits and Promise of Pragmatism," The Hedgehog Review, 3, 3 (Fall, 2001), 73-92.
ESSAYS FORTHCOMING
"Jaspers's Reception of Kierkegaard" "In God We Trust" "Becoming Real -- With Style" "Hegel: The Hermeneutics of 'Christian' Pantheism" "Postmodernism and Ethics: The Case of Caputo" "Postmodernism" (encyclopedia entry) "Transcendence, Heteronomy, and the Birth of the Responsible Self" "Whose Philosophy? Which Religion? Reflections on Reason as Faith" "Hegel Between Spinoza and Derrida" "Soren Kierkegard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments" Preface to the Fordham Press edition of Marcel’s Creative Fidelity "Speech from Beyond the Reach of Language" "Continental Philosophy of Religion" "The Many Faces of Levinas as a Reader of Kierkegaard" "Kierkegaard and the Role of Reflection in Second Immediacy" 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, Phnomenologie 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 Farr |
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