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New CoTP site: redesign & functionality
It’s been a while in the making, but I’ve finally launched the new redesign for the Centre of Theology and Philosophy. It’s now on Wordpress (instead of some weird hybrid of Movable Type like it was before), and I’ve added some new functionality here and there. There’s a new post with details, and if you [...]
Obama Does Thriller
My brother’s brother-in-law, Cory Williams, directed this video. Cory is probably best known for his “Mean Kitty” video.
Conference: Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination
Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination
March 24-27, 2010
Point Loma Nazarene University
Co-sponsored by the PLNU Wesleyan Center, Center for Justice and Reconciliation, Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, Center for Pastoral Leadership, and Center for Women’s Studies.
Call For Papers (Deadline Nov. Dec 15)
Plenary speakers:
Bill McKibben: Christian environmental activist, scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and author of Deep [...]
Bibledex
In a similar vein to the University of Nottingham’s Period Table of Videos (be sure to check out the Potassium one!), Brady Haran, in conjunction with our Department of Theology and Religious Studies, is now producing a series on the Bible dubbed Bibledex. There will be books on all 66 books of the Bible, and [...]
Call For Papers: Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses
This was forwarded to our department:
CALL FOR PAPERS
KIERKEGAARD’S UPBUILDING DISCOURSES
Oxford Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought
International Conference
16–18 April, 2010
The Oxford Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought, in connection with the Søren Kierkegaard Society of the UK, is pleased to announce an international conference focusing on Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses. While often overlooked, the Upbuilding [...]
Ribcage Music
Amongst many amazing releases, for my tastes two very important albums to recently come out of Records on Ribs are All the Empires of the World’s Last Rites and—just out today—Les Étoiles’ To Leave a Mark. If you dig bands like Explosions in the Sky or God Speed You Black Emperor! then you’ll definitely like [...]
On the prices of books
Sadly, after doing some clicking back and forth on my earlier post on all the paperback Kierkegaard books coming out (are now out now, by the way), I’ve noticed that in just about every case, all of the prices went up by a few dollars/pounds. I suppose this isn’t much of a surprise as pre-order [...]
Kierkegaard & Pitying the Fool
Whenever I do Kierkegaard posts, I, like many people, do a Google image search to visually spice up the posts. The recent post is a caricature of Kierkegaard from the Corsair, I believe. This one is also classic. But I think this illustration, by John Peterson, from this book, probably takes the cake as one [...]
Kierkegaard and Deception
On the heels of this discussion, I was reminded of this great passage from Kierkegaard’s The Point of View for my Work as an Author:
What, then, does it mean “to deceive”? It means that one does not begin directly with what one wishes to communicate but begins by taking the other’s delusion at face value. [...]
Blogging elsewhere
Oddly, not much blogging around these parts lately, but elsewhere, I’ve posted the third and final post of my series on Kierekgaard and Socrates here at Cynthia Nielsen’s Per Caritatem blog (the first two can be found here and here).
Bruce Ellis Benson’s engagement with Dan Siedell’s God in the Gallery is also now up at [...]
A Couple of Items
A new book symposium has begun on the Church and Postmodern Culture blog on Daniel A. Siedell’s God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art. Two posts are up already, one by Jamie Smith and the other by Matthew Milliner (who blogs at millinerd.com) This Monday an engagement with the third chapter will [...]
Various Updates of Various Things
Not a whole lot happening around this blog, but a few things are happening in my life outside of academia. The first is that Tiana and I are getting booted from our flat here in Nottingham, effective 18 August. It’s nothing we did to cause this; apparently there are some tensions between our landlady and [...]
Of excellent book covers
Tiana and I just got back from a two-week trip to the States. This was our first trip home since we moved to Nottingham in August 2008. We visited Cincinnati, OH and while in California, San Diego, Merced, and Concord. While in San Diego I visited the new Theology building on the Point Loma Nazarene [...]
Kierkegaard, Levinas, and an Inwardness Higher Than Itself
One cannot (probably) have too much Kierkegaard on his birthday. This is a great bit from Mary-Jane Rubenstein on Kierkegaard that wraps up all sorts of Kierkegaardian themes as they work themselves out in response to a critique by Levinas:
Emmanuel Levinas claims that the Kierkegaardian subject, as radically inward, is egocentric: “Kierkegaard very powerfully [...]
Happy Birthday, Kierkegaard
Today is May 5th, which amongst other holidays, also marks the 196th birthday of Søren Kierkegaard. In light of this, I thought it would be appropriate to enjoy the following piece from The Moment entitled “The Official/the Personal.” It is the seventh and final section to part 4 of Kierkegaard’s The Moment series, which was [...]
Bored on a Saturday
Via Matt, here are some anagramical (?) variations on my full name: (i’m posting ones with bad words too because they’re funny–although if you’ve seen the Vagina Monologues then this word has been ‘reclaimed’ for ‘good’ or something)
Easel Runic Tie
Lease Rice Unit
Easier Cunt Lie
Realise Cue Tin
Sac Uterine Lie
Lunatic See Ire
Italic See Rune
Sauce Liner Tie
Care Isle [...]
Expiration
Just in case anybody is still linking to this website via the URL ‘ericisrad.com’, just know that I am letting that domain expire in 5 days. It has been redirecting to this domain for the past 2 or 3 years, but that will soon no longer be the case.
I registered it as a joke about [...]
The City & The City; “…weird on top”
From Above the Convenience Store, this sounds fascinating:
I read an advanced copy of The City and The City by China Miéville and was quite impressed. This is a book that will generate a lot of talk in the coming months. The book reads like a fantasy but most assuredly is not. Miéville posits two fictional European cities [...]
BBC2 Documentary: “Did Darwin Kill God?”
My superviser Conor Cunningham has written a BBC2 documentary entitled “Did Darwin Kill God?” This will air 31 March 2009 at 7pm (GMT). The idea of Conor’s documentary is that, from a theological perspective, he hopes to both provide a sharp critique of ultra-Darwinism on the one hand, while also offering a major critique to [...]