August 2020 – RELIGIOUS THEORY

The Ultimate And The Penultimate – Bonhoeffer’s Twofold Contextualism In Adjudicating Competing Ethical Claims, Part 2 (W. Travis McMaken)

August 23, 2020August 23, 2020editors_religioustheoryComment(0)

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Self-Inflicted Death: Bonhoeffer’s Ethic in Action Reflecting on the development of Bonhoeffer’s ethical thought, Rasmussen notes that, in the portions of the Ethics that deal with particular ethical questions, “the method of deciding, still done contextually, takes the form of […]

Theological Ethics

The Ultimate And The Penultimate – Bonhoeffer’s Twofold Contextualism In Adjudicating Competing Ethical Claims, Part 1 (W. Travis McMaken)

August 17, 2020August 23, 2020editors_religioustheoryComment(0)

The following is the first of a two-part series. The life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer quickly captured the imagination of theologians, clergy, and lay Christians in the years following the Second World War. His brave and theologically reflective involvement in the Abwehr plot to overthrow Hitler, and the untimely end he met as a […]

Philosophy

Bushwhacking Derrida – “Perception” – “Context of Context”, “The Hunter And The Hunted” (Gary Bedford)

August 10, 2020August 18, 2020editors_religioustheoryComment(0)

After Derrida, how can philosophy continue to think critically, and for our task here, ontologically2…? Can a critique of the context of perception via its textual traces render insight into the presumed meta-context of perception itself, of how we perceive our world? What occurs when perception, or its textual thought, defer? Is the question of […]