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9Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida & Marion on Modern IdolatryInterVarsity Press. 2002.What do the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion have in common with Christianity? Surprisingly, they are all concerned about idolatry, about the tendency we have to create God in our own image and about what we can do about it. Can we faithfully speak of God at all without interposing ourselves? If so, how? Bruce Ellis Benson explores this common concern by clearly laying out the thought of each of these postmodern thinkers against the background of modern philo…Read more
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8Notes onIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge. 2011.
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6The Dance That Transforms: Gadamer on Morality, Music, and ReligionIn Sam McAuliffe (ed.), Gadamer, Music, and Philosophical Hermeneutics, Springer Verlag. pp. 51-62. 2023.The reason why Gadamer’s Truth and Method opens with a discussion of ‘humanistic’ concepts—Bildung, judgment, sensus communis, tact, and taste—is that these ‘ways of knowing’ are basic to human knowledge and understanding. In this paper, I consider the role that religion (defined in a broad sense) played in helping human beings develop a common sense of understanding. Specifically, I examine some instances of religion in the form of song and dance—forms of religion that appear to date back to ma…Read more
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6Evil, Fallenness, and Finitude (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2017.This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil. The contributors approach these issues from perspectives in Continental philosophy relating to phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, rabbinical traditions, drawing upon the work of Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and Paul Ricoeur. While centering on the traditional theme of theodicy, this volume is also oriented to the phenomenology of religion, with contributions …Read more
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59. How Continental Philosophy of Religion Came into Being and Where It Is GoingIn Gregory P. Floyd & Stephanie Rumpza (eds.), The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America, University of Toronto Press. pp. 220-244. 2020.
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4The prayers and tears of Friedrich NietzscheIn Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), The phenomenology of prayer, Fordham University Press. pp. 73-87. 2005.
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4IntroductionIn Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), Words of life: new theological turns in French phenomenology, Fordham University Press. pp. 1-12. 2010.
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4Chrétien on the call that woundsIn Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), Words of life: new theological turns in French phenomenology, Fordham University Press. pp. 208-221. 2010.
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Phenomenology of musicIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge. 2011.
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Stealing licks : recording and identity in jazzIn Mine Doğantan (ed.), Recorded music: philosophical and critical reflections, Middlesex University Press. 2008.
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Continental philosophyof religionIn Paul Copan & Chad V. Meister (eds.), Philosophy of religion: classic and contemporary issues, Blackwell. 2008.
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Appropriating Westphal appropriating Nietzsche : Merold Westphal as a theological resourceIn B. Keith Putt (ed.), Gazing through a prism darkly: reflections on Merold Westphal's hermeneutical epistemology, Fordham University Press. 2009.