THEORY TO NO END
This podcast explores recent scholarship in political theology--Camelia Raghinaru, Professor, Concordia University Irvine.
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Close Reading: Julia Brown on Locke's Scriptural Hermeneutics
11/20/2025
Close Reading: Julia Brown on Locke's Scriptural Hermeneutics
Locke subordinated revelation to reason out of political caution against religious enthusiasts. Julia Brown . “John Locke on Reading the Bible: Rational Obscurity and the Lockean ‘Rule.’” Political theology : the journal of Christian Socialism 24.5 (2023): 447–464.
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György Geréby on the Political Theology of Erik Peterson
01/11/2025
György Geréby on the Political Theology of Erik Peterson
György Geréby is Associate professor in the Medieval Studies Department at the Central European University, Budapest and Vienna. He is Historian of Medieval and Late Antique philosophy and theology, with a research interest in methodology in medieval philosophy and theology, theory of language and proof, and its applicability to conceptual analysis. He has an additional interest in early Christianity and the apocrypha, and political theology. In this episode we discuss his article titled, "Political Theology versus Theological Politics: Erik Peterson and Carl Schmitt," published in New German Critique 105, Vol. 35, No. 3, Fall 2008.
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Menachem Fisch on Contrasting Paradigms of Rabbinic Religiosity
11/09/2024
Menachem Fisch on Contrasting Paradigms of Rabbinic Religiosity
Menachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is former President of the Israel Society for History and Philosophy of Science, and former Chair of the National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science at the Israel Academy of Science. He has held several visiting research positions and published numerous monographs and articles in a variety of fields related to the theology of the talmudic literature In this episode we discuss , forthcoming in J-P. Fortin and H. Schulz (eds.), Aqedah: The Binding of Isaac (Gen 22) as a Challenge for the Rationality of Religion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, De Gruyter, 2024.
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György Geréby on the Political Theology of Carl Schmitt
09/29/2024
György Geréby on the Political Theology of Carl Schmitt
György Geréby is Associate professor in the Medieval Studies Department at the Central European University, Budapest and Vienna. He is Historian of Medieval and Late Antique philosophy and theology, with a research interest in methodology in medieval philosophy and theology, theory of language and proof, and its applicability to conceptual analysis. He has an additional interest in early Christianity and the apocrypha, and political theology. In this episode we discuss his article titled, "The Theology of Carl Schmitt," published in Politeja 18 (2021).
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Adi Ophir on Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
07/22/2024
Adi Ophir on Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Adi Ophir is a visiting professor affiliated with the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Middle East Studies. At the Cogut Institute, he directs the initiative. He is also Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. His current research focuses on political concepts as events, performances, and discursive apparatuses, with special attention to three concepts: “concept,” “political,” and “the Other.” He studies types of Others in general, and the structure and genealogy of one type of Other in particular–the Goy, the Jew’s Other. He is the founding editor of Theory and Criticism, Israel's leading journal for critical theory, and Mafte'akh: Lexical Review for Political Thought. His recent books include The One-State Condition (Stanford University Press, 2012), co-authored with Ariella Azoulay; Divine Violence: Two Essays on God and Disaster (Hebrew, The Van Leer Institute, 2013); and Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (Oxford University Press, 2018), co-authored with Ishai Rosen-Zvi. In this episode we discuss his latest book: In the beginning was the state: divine violence in the Hebrew Bible (Fordham University Press, 2023).
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Siphiwe Dube on Black African Neo/Pentecostal Political Subjectivity
05/24/2024
Siphiwe Dube on Black African Neo/Pentecostal Political Subjectivity
Siphiwe Ignatius Dube is Senior Lecturer and former Head in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is an author of numerous interdisciplinary articles and chapters (and has also supervised) on a range of topics covering African politics and religion, feminisms, post-colonial literature, race, religion and masculinities, religion and identity politics, religion and popular culture, and transitional justice. He is a United World College (Atlantic College) alumnus, recipient of the Prince of Wales Scholarship, the Don Norton Award, the NRF-DST Scarce Skills Development Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and a PASRC Fellow amongst other achievements. His current two projects focus on African Political Theology and the Religious New Right in post-apartheid South Africa. In this episode we discuss his article titled, "Black African Neo/Pentecostal Political Subjectivity and/as Black Consciousness," published in Political Theology, 2024.
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Miguel Vatter on Atheism, Post-secularism and the Legitimacy of Democracy
05/18/2024
Miguel Vatter on Atheism, Post-secularism and the Legitimacy of Democracy
Miguel Vatter is Professor in Political Science at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University. He has published extensively on political theology. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, his most recent books are Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt ( 2021) and Divine Democracy: Political Theology After Carl Schmitt (2020). A complete list of publications is found here: In this episode we discuss his book chapter titled, "Atheism, Post-secularism and the Legitimacy of Democracy" published in Political Theology Today: 100 Years after Carl Schmitt in 2023.
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Erica Weiss on Jewish Israeli Emergent Political Theologies of Peace
05/02/2024
Erica Weiss on Jewish Israeli Emergent Political Theologies of Peace
Erica Weiss is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. She is a cultural anthropologist researching the ways people navigate the ethical dilemmas they encounter during their everyday lives and with people who are different than themselves. She does her research in Israel and Palestine, using ethnographic methods. In this episode we discuss her article titled, "Divergent and Emergent Political Theologies of Peace Amongst Jewish Israelis," published in Political Theology in March 2024.
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Jennifer Rust on Foucault and Pastoral Power
08/19/2023
Jennifer Rust on Foucault and Pastoral Power
Jennifer Rust is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of English at Saint Louis University. Her research interests include Early modern English literature, Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance prose fiction, Catholic writing in the English Reformation, political theology, religious studies, critical theory, gender and sovereignty. Her book is titled, The Body in Mystery: the Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014. In this episode we discuss two of her recent articles: “Ad Salutem Publicam: public health and pastoral government in More’ Utopia.” Textual Practice. May 2023, Vol. 37 Issue 5, p. 706-724. “Political Theology, Pastoral Power, and Resistance.” Political Theology. Feb. 2021, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p. 89-94.
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Mary Hirschfeld on a Theological Perspective on Economic Inequality
08/11/2023
Mary Hirschfeld on a Theological Perspective on Economic Inequality
Mary L. Hirschfeld is John T. Ryan Jr. Associate Professor of Theology and Business Ethics and Academic Director of the Business Ethics and Society Program at the University of Notre Dame. She works on the boundaries between theology and economics using an approach rooted in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. She has written on economic inequality, the technocratic paradigm, the financial crisis and the common good. Her book is titled, Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy (Harvard University Press, 2018). In this episode we discuss her article titled, “Rethinking Economic Inequality: A Theological Perspective,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 42(2) (June 2019): 259-282.
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Luke Bretherton on Political Theology and The Case for Democracy
07/26/2023
Luke Bretherton on Political Theology and The Case for Democracy
Luke Bretherton is Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Research Professor of Moral and Political Theology and senior fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Before joining the Duke faculty in 2012, he was reader in Theology & Politics and convener of the Faith & Public Policy Forum at King's College London. His latest book is Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (Eerdmans, 2019). His other books include Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which was based on a four-year ethnographic study of broad-based community organizing initiatives in London and elsewhere; Christianity & Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing; and Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity (Routledge, 2006), which develops constructive, theological responses to pluralism in dialogue with broader debates in moral philosophy. Specific issues addressed in his work include euthanasia and hospice care, debt and usury, fair trade, environmental justice, racism, humanitarianism, the treatment of refugees, interfaith relations, secularism, nationalism, church-state relations, and the church’s involvement in social welfare provision and social movements. Alongside his scholarly work, he writes in the media (including The Guardian, The Times and The Washington Post) on topics related to religion and politics, has worked with a variety of faith-based NGOs, mission agencies, and churches around the world, and has been actively involved over many years in forms of grassroots democratic politics, both in the UK and the US. His primary areas of research, supervision, and teaching are Christian ethics, political theology, the intellectual and social history of Christian moral and political thought, the relationship between Christianity and capitalism, missiology, interfaith relations, and practices of social, political, and economic witness. He has received a number of grants and awards, including a Henry Luce III Fellowship (2017-18). In this episode we discuss his latest book, Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (Eerdmans, 2019).
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Lee Ward on Political Theology and Constitutionalism
07/10/2023
Lee Ward on Political Theology and Constitutionalism
Lee Ward is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. He has published widely in the areas of Political Theory and American Political Thought. His books include The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America (Cambridge University Press, 2004), John Locke and Modern Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau and Jefferson (Palgrave McMillan, 2014) and Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). He is editor of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government (Hackett Publishing, 2016). He has also published articles on John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Aristotle, Montesquieu, Algernon Sidney, Plato, Baruch Spinoza, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tom Paine, John Stuart Mill, Irish republicanism, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas that have appeared in several leading academic journals. In this episode we discuss his 2022 article published in Political Theology titled, "Political Theology and Constitutionalism in Carl Schmitt and Jurgen Habermas."
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Steve Knepper on William Desmond's Aesthetics
12/23/2022
Steve Knepper on William Desmond's Aesthetics
Steve Knepper is an associate professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. His main areas of expertise are philosophy and literature, aesthetics, and American literature. He is the author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond, which was published in 2022 by SUNY Press and will soon be re-released as a paperback, and he is currently editing A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible. His essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in several journals.
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Robert Wyllie on Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer and Cormac McCarthy
10/07/2022
Robert Wyllie on Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer and Cormac McCarthy
Robert Wyllie is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of Political Economy Program at Ashland University. He teaches courses in political economy, history, and political philosophy, and he has published articles in Constellations, Perspectives on Political Science, Polis, Res Philosophica, TELOS, and other scholarly journals. In this episode we discuss two of his articles on Cormac McCarthy: "Kierkegaard Talking Down Schopenhauer: The Sunset Limited as a Philosophical Dialogue." The Cormac McCarthy Journal (2016) 14 (2): 186–203. "Principles that transcend money": Veterans Between Markets and Fate in No Country for Old Men. Forthcoming.
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John Lippitt on Kierkegaard and Forgiveness
09/30/2022
John Lippitt on Kierkegaard and Forgiveness
John Lippitt is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics & Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia, based in Sydney. John’s research interests include virtue ethics and the moral psychology of the virtues; forgiveness; philosophical and theological aspects of love and friendship; and the thought of Søren Kierkegaard. He also has an active interest in the ethics of policing. In this episode we discuss John's latest monograph, Love's Forgiveness, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. For a detailed biography and bibliography, please follow the link below:
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Philip Clayton on Christian Panentheism
12/06/2021
Philip Clayton on Christian Panentheism
Philip Clayton holds the Ingraham Chair at Claremont School of Theology, where he directs the PhD program in comparative theologies and philosophies; he is also affiliated faculty at Claremont Graduate University. He has published two dozen books and some 350 articles. Philip is President of the Institute for Ecological Civilization (). He is also president of the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China. As a scholar, Philip Clayton works at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and science. His more recent focus has turned toward the intersection of climate science, ethics, religion, and social philosophy, or ecotheology. You can access more information about his work here: https://cst.edu/academics/faculty/philip-clayton https://www.philipclayton.net/ In this episode we discuss concepts from his book titled, God and Gravity: A Philip Clayton Reader on Science and Theology, edited by Bradford McCall (2018). https://www.amazon.com/God-Gravity-Clayton-Science-Theology/dp/1532649568/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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Christopher T. Fan on Science Fictionality and Post-65 Asian American Literature
09/24/2021
Christopher T. Fan on Science Fictionality and Post-65 Asian American Literature
Christopher T. Fan is Assistant Professor at UC Irvine in the departments of , and , and a senior editor at magazine, which he also co-founded. His research and writing focus on 20/21st c. Anglophone and Asian/American cultural production, speculative fiction, and racial form. He received his PhD in English literature from UC Berkeley in 2016, and was formerly a UC Chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the English department at UC Riverside. In addition to Hyphen, his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, American Quarterly, the Journal of Asian American Studies, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Post45, Public Books, The New Inquiry, and American Literary History: Forum. He is currently working on a book, tentatively titled Principles of Selection: Asian American Fiction after 1965, about post-1965 Asian/American fiction (especially science fiction) as an articulation of immigration policy and US-Asia political economy. We discuss two of his articles: "," American Literary History 33.1 (Spring, 2021). "," Post45: Peer Reviewed (November 6, 2014).
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Joanna Leidenhag on Emergent Theologies
08/13/2021
Joanna Leidenhag on Emergent Theologies
Joanna Leidenhag is Lecturer in Theology and Liberal Arts at the University of Leeds, UK. She holds degrees from the University of St Andrews, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Edinburgh. She is currently working on a book outlining how the natural and psychological sciences can be used as a constructive resource for theological reflection, as well as pursuing a project on theology & autism. Her first monograph, published with T&T Clark in 2021, is called Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation. In this book, Joanna argued that panpsychism provides a more promising metaphysical framework for a Christian doctrine of creation than emergence theory. In preparation for this book, Joanna published the article “A Critique of Emergent Theologies,” which we discuss on this podcast.
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Michael Millerman on Alexander Dugin
06/11/2021
Michael Millerman on Alexander Dugin
Michael Millerman is a scholar of political philosophy working primarily on classical political rationalism and phenomenology. He is the author of Beginning with Heidegger: Strauss, Rorty, Derrida, Dugin and the Philosophical Constitution of the Political. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia and an MA and PhD in Political Science (Political Theory) from the University of Toronto. In connection with his research, he has translated several books by the Russian political philosopher Alexander Dugin. For more information, visit michaelmillerman.ca. In this episode we discuss Millerman's article titled, "The Ethnosociological and Existential Dimensions of Alexander Dugin’s Populism" published in Telos 193, Winter 2020.
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Christian Emden on the Political Theology of Human Rights
05/08/2021
Christian Emden on the Political Theology of Human Rights
Christian J. Emden is Frances Moody Newman Professor, Professor of German Intellectual History and Political Thought, and Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures at Rice University. He is also one of the directors of Rice’s Program in Politics, Law and Social Thought. His work falls into the field of modern German and European intellectual history with an emphasis on political thought. Within the wider context of modern intellectual history, Emden’s research is mainly concerned with varieties of political realism, especially as they focus on the relationship between active political citizenship and the demands of the modern state, and he is also interested in postnational manifestations of political citizenship. A second line of inquiry is concerned with the emergence of normativity and the conditions of normative order. This approach often links recent discussions in philosophical naturalism to central issues in political theory and the history of political thought. For a list of publications follow the link below: https://politics.rice.edu/faculty/christian-j-emden
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Gerald Liu on Music and the Generosity of God
02/08/2021
Gerald Liu on Music and the Generosity of God
Gerald C. Liu is assistant professor of worship and preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his BA in music at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, his Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University (during which time he was also a theological fellow at Georg-August Universität in Göttingen, Germany), and his PhD from Vanderbilt University with a concentration in homiletics and liturgics. Liu has previously served as a British Methodist minister in Nottingham, England before becoming ordained in the Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church. Currently, he volunteers as a minister in residence at Church of the Village, a United Methodist congregation in Manhattan, and he also preaches and teaches ecumenically in congregations and communities of faith nearby and abroad on a regular basis. We discuss his book titled, Music and the Generosity of God (New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017).
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David Pan on Unalienable Rights, the 1619 Project, and Nation-State Sovereignty
01/06/2021
David Pan on Unalienable Rights, the 1619 Project, and Nation-State Sovereignty
David T. Pan is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and has previously held positions at Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford University, Penn State University, and McKinsey and Company. He is the author of Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism (2001) and Sacrifice in the Modern World: On the Particularity and Generality of Nazi Myth (2012). He has also published on J. G. Herder, Heinrich von Kleist, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Jünger, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Schmitt, and Theodor Adorno. He currently serves on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association, on the Commission on Unalienable Rights at the U.S. State Department, and as the Editor of Telos. We discuss the Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights (https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Draft-Report-of-the-Commission-on-Unalienable-Rights.pdf) and David Pan's article titled, "Unalienable Rights, the 1619 Project, and Nation-State Sovereignty" published in Telos, issue 192, Fall 2020.
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Aryeh Botwinick on Negative Theology, Power, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
12/29/2020
Aryeh Botwinick on Negative Theology, Power, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Aryeh Botwinick is Professor of Religion at Temple University. He is the author of Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern: Maimonides to Nietzsche (Cornell University Press, 1997), Michael Oakeshott’s Skepticism (Princeton University Press, 2011), and Emmanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics: A Critique and a Re-Appropriation (Routledge, 2014). His work focuses upon exploring the deep affinities and continuities between monotheism, skepticism, and liberalism—and how studying and theorizing them gives rise to new configurations for understanding both their history and their current potential. The article we discuss is titled, "Negative Theology, Power, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." It was published in Telos, issue 192, Fall 2020.
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Mark Noll on Evangelicals Today
12/18/2020
Mark Noll on Evangelicals Today
Mark Noll is Research Professor of History at Regent College and a leading church historian. He recently retired as the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, having previously served as Professor of History and Theological Studies at Wheaton College. His teaching included courses on American religious and intellectual history, the Reformation, world Christianity, and Canadian history. Dr. Noll has written and edited numerous books, most recently including Evangelicals: Who they Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be (with George Marsden and David Bebbington, Eerdmans, 2019), In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life (OUP, 2015), From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story (Baker Academic, 2014), Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind (Eerdmans, 2011), and Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia (co-written with Carolyn Nystrom, IVP, 2011). He has also served on the editorial boards for Books & Culture and Christian History, and as co-editor of Library of Religious Biography for Wm. B. Eerdmans. In 2006 he received the National Endowment for the Humanities medal at the White House. We discuss a select chapter from Evangelicals: Who they Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be (with George Marsden and David Bebbington, Eerdmans, 2019), titled, "Noun or Adjective? The Fanatical Ravings of a Nominalist."
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Michael Rea on the Hiddenness of God
12/18/2020
Michael Rea on the Hiddenness of God
Michael C. Rea is Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses primarily on topics in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and analytic theology. He has written or edited more than ten books and forty articles, and has given numerous lectures in the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Russia, China, and Iran, including the 2017 Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews. We discuss select chapters from his book titled, The Hiddenness of God (Oxford University Press, 2018). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-hiddenness-of-god-9780198826019?cc=us&lang=en&#
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Ilia Delio on Transhumanism, Suffering and Sacrifice
11/16/2020
Ilia Delio on Transhumanism, Suffering and Sacrifice
Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics and neuroscience and the import of these for theology. She currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University, and is the author of twenty books including Care for Creation (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods) which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009, first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality. Her book The Emergent Christ won a third place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Ilia holds two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015, and one from Sacred Heart University in 2020. Additional titles and information can be found here: In this episode we discuss Ilia Delio's article titled, "Suffering and Sacrifice in an Unfinished Universe: The Energy of Love," published in Religions, July 2020.
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Terrence Deacon on the Emergent Process of Thinking as Reflected in Language Processing
09/16/2020
Terrence Deacon on the Emergent Process of Thinking as Reflected in Language Processing
Terrence W. Deacon is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. His research combines developmental evolutionary biology and comparative neuroanatomy to investigate the evolution of human cognition, and is particularly focused on the explanation of emergent processes in biology and cognition. Dr. Deacon received a Ph.D. in biological anthropology from Harvard university in 1984. He taught at Harvard from 1984-1992, at Boston University from 1992-2002, and was a research associate at McLean Hospital and the Harvard Medical School from 1992-2000, before joining the University of California, Berkeley. His honors include being a Harvard Lehman Fellow, a Harvard Medical School Psychiatric Neuroscience Fellow, a Western Washington University Centenary Alumni Fellow, and the 69th James Arthur Lecturer for the American Museum of Natural History. He has published over 100 research papers in collected volumes and scholarly journals, and his acclaimed book, The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain (W. W. Norton & Co., 1997) was awarded the I. J. Stanley Prize for the most influential book in Anthropology in 2005 by the School of American Research. His 2012 book, Incomplete Nature: The Emergence of Mind from Matter, explores the problem of explaining the emergence of end-directed processes in nature, from biological functions to mental processes, and integrates many of his interests in complex biological systems. In this interview we discuss his article titled, "The Emergent Process of Thinking as Reflected in Language Processing."
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John Cottingham on the Search of the Soul
09/08/2020
John Cottingham on the Search of the Soul
John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Roehampton, London, Visiting Professor at King’s College, London, and Honorary Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford University. He has published over thirty books – fifteen as sole author, a further nine editions and translations, plus (either as single or joint editor) eight edited collections – together with over 140 articles in learned journals or books. From 1993-2012 he was Editor of Ratio, the international journal of analytic philosophy. A complete list of John Cottingham's publications and research interests can be found on his webpage: We discuss his recent book titled, In Search of the Soul, Princeton UP, 2020.
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John Cottingham on Desire and Encounter
08/17/2020
John Cottingham on Desire and Encounter
John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Roehampton, London, Visiting Professor at King’s College, London, and Honorary Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford University. He has published over thirty books – fifteen as sole author, a further nine editions and translations, plus (either as single or joint editor) eight edited collections – together with over 140 articles in learned journals or books. From 1993-2012 he was Editor of Ratio, the international journal of analytic philosophy. A complete list of John Cottingham's publications and research interests can be found on his webpage: We discuss his article, "From desire to encounter: the human quest for the infinite," published in Religious Studies, 2019.
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Philip Pettit on Ethics without Transcendence
08/17/2020
Philip Pettit on Ethics without Transcendence
Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit appeared from OUP in 2007, edited by Geoffrey Brennan, R.E.Goodin, Frank Jackson and Michael Smith. He works in moral and political theory and on background issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. His recent single-authored books include The Common Mind (OUP 1996), Republicanism (OUP 1997), A Theory of Freedom (OUP 2001), Rules, Reasons and Norms (OUP 2002), Penser en Societe (PUF, Paris 2004), Examen a Zapatero (Temas de Hoy, Madrid 2008), Made with Words: Hobbes on Mind, Society and Politics (PUP 2008); On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy (CUP 2012); Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World (W.W.Norton 2014) and The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue and Respect (OUP 2015). His recent co-authored books include The Economy of Esteem (OUP 2004), with Geoffrey Brennan; Mind, Morality and Explanation (OUP 2004), a selection of papers with Frank Jackson and Michael Smith; A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain (PUP 2010), with Jose Marti; and Group Agency: The Possibility, Design and Status of Corporate Agents (OUP 2011), with Christian List. He gave the Tanner lectures on Human Values at Berkeley in April 2015, which appeared in late 2018 with OUP, New York (with commentary by Michael Tomasello) as The Birth of Ethics: A Reconstruction of the Nature and Role of Morality. He is presenting the Locke lectures in Philosophy at Oxford University in Spring 2019. We discuss his chapter titled, “Ethics without Transcendence” published in Ciphers of Transcendence. Essays in Philosophy of Religion in Honor of Patrick Masterson (2019).
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