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The Poetics of the Symbolic Body in Chrétien's Symbolique du corpsIn Jeffrey Bloechl (ed.), Fragility and Transcendence: Essays on the Thought of Jean-Louis Chrétien, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 83-97. 2023.During the last fifteen years of his life, Jean-Louis Chrétien († 2019) pursued, across several books, an exploration of “personal identity” as figured in the works of numerous authors, primarily but not exclusively belonging to the Christian tradition. Through these books’ diverse approaches to human interiority, there runs a single guiding thread: a constant reference to the biblical notion of the heart and its relationship to human embodied speech. The book that begins this project is the 200…Read more
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From the Inner Room to Cardiognostic Narrative: Connecting the Two Ends of Chrétien’s Genealogy of InteriorityIn Philip John Paul Gonzales & Joseph Micah McMeans (eds.), Finitude’s Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chrétien, Wipe & Stock. pp. 121-140. 2023.Among the teachings Jesus delivers in the Gospel of Matthew following the Sermon on the Mount are important instructions concerning prayer. Just before teaching the "Our Father," Jesus speaks of the "inner room" into which one must retreat in order to pray. According to Jean-Louis Chrétien's multi-volume genealogy of "figures of interiority, and the way in which interiority becomes 'subjectivity,'" this inner room is one of two key biblical starting points for tracing the development of how we t…Read more
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In the Footsteps of Henri de Lubac and Gregory of Nyssa: Jean-Yves Lacoste on Human Becoming, Historical and EternalIn Joeri Schrijvers & Martin Koci (eds.), in God and Phenomenology: Thinking with Jean-Yves Lacoste, Wipf & Stock. pp. 249-267. 2024.Must we assume that a human being knows all there is to know about its being, its ends and its meaning, this side of death? Is it thinkable that the liturgical beyond overturns the stakes of its being? This paper explores Lacoste's work on de Lubac and connects it with Lacoste's liturgical eschatology and the notion of epektasis in Gregory of Nyssa. Lacoste's thought locates in historically situated human desire an aim beyond the world that intertwines the eschatological with the historical I.
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15Claudel’s Way to the InexhaustibleLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 19 (2): 168-176. 2016.
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14A Fitting Receptacle: Paul Claudel on Poetry and Sensations of GodLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 17 (4): 65-86. 2014.
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9Contestation and Epektasis in the “Discussion on Sin”Analecta Hermeneutica 4. 2012.The essay discusses the March 5, 1944 "Discussion on Sin," an event that was held between French intellectual Georges Bataille and the Jesuit priest and patristics scholar Jean Daniélou, along with other important Christian and non-Christian intellectuals. I argue that the event is the best recorded wartime intellectual encounter between the founders of contestation (subsequently so important in deconstructive thought) and serious practitioners of Christianity. Aspects of the thought of French t…Read more
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35The Phenomenology of Givenness and the 'Myth of the Given'University of Virginia Press. 2011.Introduction to Jean-Luc Marion's book _The Reason of the Gift_, trans. Stephen E. Lewis
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13The Erotic Phenomenon (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 2006.While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. One might wonder whether the discipline of philosophy even recognizes love. The word _philosophy _means “love of wisdom,” but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. So where did the love go? In _The Erotic Phenomenon,_ Jean-Luc Marion asks this fundamental question of philosophy, while reviving inquiry into the concept of love itself. Marion b…Read more
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5The Lover’s Capacity in Jean-Luc Marion’s The Erotic PhenomenonQuaestiones Disputatae 1 (1): 226-244. 2010.
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Franciscan University of SteubenvilleRegular Faculty
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy of Religion |
Phenomenology, Misc |