I would love to go to this conference, but no more conferences for me until my PhD is finished. It sounds pretty exciting. Patrick Stokes, the conference organizer, has a book entitled Kierkegaard’s Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision (US | UK) which is an excellent and fun read (I have a forthcoming review of it [...]
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Where Heaven and Earth Meet
“However, it is not the case that in any genus—even [the genus] of motion—we come to an unqualifiedly maximum and minimum. Hence, if we consider the various movements of the spheres, [we will see that] it is not possible for the world-machine to have, as a fixed and immovable centre, either our perceptible earth or [...]
Parasitical Reasoning
“There are Christian theisms which are parasitical upon forms of atheism, for they formulate a doctrine of God primarily in response to a certain kind of grounds for atheistic denial. It is a case worth considering that much eighteenth-century theodicy has this parasitical character, being a theism designed to respond primarily to the threat to [...]
Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses
Two and a half weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the ‘Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses’ Conference in Oxford at Christ Church College. I’m a bit behind on posting this, but today is Søren Kierkegaard’s 197th birthday so I thought I should at least owe that to him. Sadly, the volcanic ash [...]
Schedule updated
It’s been a few weeks now, but the full schedule for the Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination conference is now online.
On Praying with the Victims in Haiti
Please read: “‘With Sighs Too Deep for Words’: On Praying with the Victims in Haiti”, by Nate Kerr
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]