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3The Invisible Threshold: Two Plays by Gabriel Marcel (edited book)St. Augustine's Press. 2019.The plays in this new volume were written early in Marcel’s career, and were published together under the title Le Seuil invisible (The Invisible Threshold) in 1913. The first play, Grace, explores the theme of religious conversion. The drama depicts a crisis between characters of genuine depth and sincerity, who are struggling with different interpretations of shared experiences. Similar themes are addressed but developed differently in the second play, The Sandcastle. This drama explores the c…Read more
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Book Review: The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being (review)Marcel Studies 5 (1): 37-40. 2020.NA.
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Book Review: In Search of the Spiritual: Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis, and the Sacred (review)Marcel Studies 1 (1): 48-52. 2016.NA.
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8Gabriel Marcel and American Philosophy: The Religious Dimension of Experience. By David RodickAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92 (4): 721-724. 2018.
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10Impotent VengeanceSocial Philosophy Today 33 131-153. 2017.The afterlife has been imagined in a diversity of ways, one of which is as a vehicle for vengeance. Upon outlining, via the figures of Tertullian and Sayyid Qutb, a vengeful formulation of afterlife belief, this essay examines Friedrich Nietzsche’s critique of such a belief. The belief is framed as an expression of impotence insofar as believers imagine in the beyond what they cannot achieve in the present, namely, taking vengeance upon their enemies. Nietzsche’s critique leads to the essay’s ce…Read more
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15The Heavenly ProtestRadical Philosophy Review 15 (1): 219-239. 2012.How would a liberation theologian respond to Marx’s famous critique that religious belief and, even more specifically, a hope for heaven is “the opium of the people”? I utilize the conceptual resources found within the work of liberation theologians Gustavo Gutiérrez, Enrique Dussel, and Jon Sobrino to argue that a belief in heaven is able to constitute a protest against oppressed persons’ present hell. To strengthen the connection between a believer’s heavenly hope and a commitment to worldly s…Read more
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14Seeking Subsistence Beyond DeathSocial Philosophy Today 26 135-148. 2010.The Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno and the American social scientist Ernest Becker see death as humanity’s fundamental anxiety. My essay explores the ethical ramifications attendant upon making that anxiety a well-spring of human activity. More specifically, I am interested in humanity’s effort to escape death via the secular milieu of social remembrance. Does such an effort produce a vista where the other exhibits an intrinsic value? Alternatively, does the other become a mere means in l…Read more
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1Seeking Subsistence Beyond DeathSocial Philosophy Today 26 135-148. 2010.The Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno and the American social scientist Ernest Becker see death as humanity’s fundamental anxiety. My essay explores the ethical ramifications attendant upon making that anxiety a well-spring of human activity. More specifically, I am interested in humanity’s effort to escape death via the secular milieu of social remembrance. Does such an effort produce a vista where the other exhibits an intrinsic value? Alternatively, does the other become a mere means in l…Read more
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36A Commentary of Gabriel Marcel’s The Mystery of Being (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (2): 291-295. 2009.
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29The Heavenly Protest: Toward a Liberation Theology of the AfterlifeRadical Philosophy Review 15 (1): 219-239. 2012.How would a liberation theologian respond to Marx’s famous critique that religious belief and, even more specifically, a hope for heaven is “the opium of the people”? I utilize the conceptual resources found within the work of liberation theologians Gustavo Gutiérrez, Enrique Dussel, and Jon Sobrino to argue that a belief in heaven is able to constitute a protest against oppressed persons’ present hell. To strengthen the connection between a believer’s heavenly hope and a commitment to worldly s…Read more