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    Kierkegaard and the Post-Moderns (review)
    Bibliographia: An Online Journal of the History of Philosophy 1 87-95. 2013.
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    The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps (review)
    Bibliographia An Online Journal of the History of Philosophy 1 1-11. 2014.
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    Abraham has played a prominent role in recent developments in phenomenology and, in particular, continental philosophy of religion. This paper examines the importance that the scene of Genesis 22 plays in both Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion’s contributions to continental philosophy of religion. Specifically, I argue that Derrida and Marion turn to this scene of the binding of Isaac in order to describe the way in which our ethical life is structured religiously around the theme of sacrifice…Read more
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    P aul and K ierkegaard: A C hristocentric Epistemology
    Heythrop Journal 55 (5): 927-943. 2014.
    Søren Kierkegaard used his literary, philosophical, and theological voice to reintroduce Christianity to Christendom. In this effort, he repeatedly uses the Apostle Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth. Though some have noted the importance of 1 Corinthians for Kierkegaard, they have not explained this importance nor this letter's role in Kierkegaard's corpus. This essay seeks to fill this gap in Kierkegaard scholarship by explaining the role this letter plays in Kierkegaard's Climacean …Read more
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    A Hermeneutic Phenomenology: The Death of the Other Understood as Event
    Journal of Applied Hermeneutics 1 (1): 1-14. 2017.
    This is a phenomenological description of what is happening when we experience the death of another that interprets surviving or living on after such death by employing the term event. This term of art from phenomenology and hermeneutics is used to describe a disruptive and transformative experience of singularity. I maintain that the death of the other is an experience of an event because such death is unpredictable or without a horizon of expectation, excessive …Read more
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    Event, Death, and Poetry
    Philosophy Today 62 (1): 253-268. 2018.
    Since Heidegger, at least, the theme of the event has become a focal point of current debate in continental philosophy. While scholars recognize the important contributions that Jacques Derrida has made to this debate, the significance of his considerations of the death of the other for his conception of the event has not yet been fully appreciated. This essay focuses on Derrida’s efforts to develop the notion of the event in reference to the death of the other through his engagement with Paul C…Read more
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    Oh my neighbors, there is no neighbor
    International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 80 (4-5): 326-343. 2019.
    ABSTRACTThis article meditates on the Christian command to love the neighbor as yourself by focusing on how both Jacques Derrida and Søren Kierkegaard have read this command. I argue that Derrida, failing in his faithfulness to Kierkegaard, makes a mistake when he includes this command in the Greek model of the politics of friendship in his Politics of Friendship. Such a mistake is illumined by Kierkegaard’s understanding of the neighbor in this command from Works of Love because this understand…Read more