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Notes From The Cosmic Sea, James K.A. Smith Feb 2024

Notes From The Cosmic Sea, James K.A. Smith

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No abstract provided.


Cognitive Disabilities, Forms Of Exclusion, And The Ethics Of Social Interactions, Kevin Timpe Jun 2022

Cognitive Disabilities, Forms Of Exclusion, And The Ethics Of Social Interactions, Kevin Timpe

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Cognitively disabled individuals have been marginalized by our larger culture; they’ve also been marginalized in philosophical discussions. This paper seeks to begin correcting this situation by examining how assumptions which shape our social interactions and expectations disadvantage individuals with a range of cognitive disabilities. After considering Rubella syndrome and autism in detail, I argue that we have a moral obligation to change how we approach social interactions with cognitively disabled individuals.


Reading The Irony Of American History 70 Years Later, James K.A. Smith May 2022

Reading The Irony Of American History 70 Years Later, James K.A. Smith

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No abstract provided.


The Problem Of Heaven With Dr. Kevin Timpe, Kevin Timpe Aug 2021

The Problem Of Heaven With Dr. Kevin Timpe, Kevin Timpe

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No abstract provided.


Guest Post: A Well-Read Post, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung Jul 2021

Guest Post: A Well-Read Post, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung

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No abstract provided.


Sin In Christian Thought, Kevin Timpe Apr 2021

Sin In Christian Thought, Kevin Timpe

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No abstract provided.


The Reality Of Our Rebellion With Dr. Rebecca Deyoung, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung Apr 2021

The Reality Of Our Rebellion With Dr. Rebecca Deyoung, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung

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Rebecca DeYoung has extensively researched the topic of sin, and while sin and rebellion might not seem like the most encouraging topics, we hope you’ll see in this conversation that as we grow in awareness of our brokenness, we only grow in our recognition and awe of God’s grace to us despite our sin! We pray that as you listen to this conversation you come to a deeper understanding of what God has rescued us from.


I'M A Philosopher. We Can't Think Our Way Out Of This Mess. (The Intelligence Of Love), James K.A. Smith Mar 2021

I'M A Philosopher. We Can't Think Our Way Out Of This Mess. (The Intelligence Of Love), James K.A. Smith

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No abstract provided.


What Are You Guarding? Lessons On Anger And Its Antidotes From The Christian Tradition In Adam C. Pelser & W. Scott Cleveland (Eds.), Faith And Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy In Aid Of Becoming Good, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung Jan 2021

What Are You Guarding? Lessons On Anger And Its Antidotes From The Christian Tradition In Adam C. Pelser & W. Scott Cleveland (Eds.), Faith And Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy In Aid Of Becoming Good, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung

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A reconciliation of different approaches to anger in the Christian moral tradition, with cautions and recommendations for virtuous anger formation.


“Emotion, Executive Dysfunction, And Agency: Can Emotional Disability Impair An Agent’S Likelihood Of Virtue?” In Faith & Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy In Aid Of Becoming Good, Edited By Adam C. Pelser And W. Scott Cleveland, Kevin Timpe Jan 2021

“Emotion, Executive Dysfunction, And Agency: Can Emotional Disability Impair An Agent’S Likelihood Of Virtue?” In Faith & Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy In Aid Of Becoming Good, Edited By Adam C. Pelser And W. Scott Cleveland, Kevin Timpe

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No abstract provided.


The Moment Of Study In Learning That Resists Neoliberalism Body Gesture, Time, And Play, Clarence W. Joldersma May 2020

The Moment Of Study In Learning That Resists Neoliberalism Body Gesture, Time, And Play, Clarence W. Joldersma

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The essay develops a case study about a young boy playing with a toy train to address neoliberalism’s problematic discourse that depicts learning as instrumental, as something that can be caused by teaching. This paper’s perspective is enactive, taking the view that central to understanding learning is not the mind or brain working in isolation but involves the interrelationships between mind/brain, body, and world. The analysis revolves around the standing gap between teaching and learning, where navigating the gap involves a dynamic called ‘the moment of study.’ Three of Tyson Lewis’s ideas about study—body gesture, time, and play—are used to …


Review Of Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder, And Jurgen De Wispelaere, Eds., "The Routledge Handbook Of The Philosophy Of Childhood And Children", Kevin Timpe Jan 2020

Review Of Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder, And Jurgen De Wispelaere, Eds., "The Routledge Handbook Of The Philosophy Of Childhood And Children", Kevin Timpe

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Moral Education In The Classroom: A Lived Experiment, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung Jan 2020

Moral Education In The Classroom: A Lived Experiment, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung

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What would a course on ethics look like if it took into account Alasdair MacIntyre’s concerns about actually teaching students ethical practices? How could professors induct students into practices that prompt both reflection on their cultural formation and self-knowledge of the ways they have been formed by it? According to MacIntyre, such elements are prerequisites for an adequate moral education. His criticism of what he terms “Morality” includes the claim that most courses don’t even try to teach the right things. He charges that academic teaching has little if anything to do with character formation, whereas thick practices can transform …


Diminished Agency: Psychological Science And The Role Of Choice In Goals And Actions, James Van Slyke, Kevin Timpe Jul 2019

Diminished Agency: Psychological Science And The Role Of Choice In Goals And Actions, James Van Slyke, Kevin Timpe

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No abstract provided.


Agency And Neuroscience: A Conversation Between Philosophy And Psychology, Kevin Timpe, James Van Slyke Jul 2019

Agency And Neuroscience: A Conversation Between Philosophy And Psychology, Kevin Timpe, James Van Slyke

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No abstract provided.


A (Not So) Secular Saint, James K.A. Smith Feb 2019

A (Not So) Secular Saint, James K.A. Smith

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Review of John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life by Timothy Larsen


Moral Ecology, Disabilities, And Human Agency, Kevin Timpe Jan 2019

Moral Ecology, Disabilities, And Human Agency, Kevin Timpe

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This paper argues that human agency is not simply a function of intrinsic properties about the agent, but that agency instead depends on the ecology that the agent is in. In particular, the paper examines ways that disabilities affect agency and shows how, by paying deliberate attention to structuring the social environment around people with disabilities, we can mitigate some of the agential impact of those disabilities. The paper then argues that the impact of one’s social environment on agency isn’t restricted only to those agents that have disabilities, but also characterizes all human agency. All of our agency is …


Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung - Deadly Sins And Their Remedies, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung Nov 2018

Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung - Deadly Sins And Their Remedies, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung

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Vices are bad habits we can rely upon to make our lives not work. So why do we do them? How do we get to the bottom of our sin-symptoms and allow The Master Physician to heal the root causes? Rebecca DeYoung, author of Glittering Vices and Vainglory, talks with Nathan Foster about ordering our loves. The Renovaré Bookclub is reading Glittering Vices together—learn more at renovare.org/bookclub.


Bodies On The Margins: A Multitude Of Voices, Kevin Timpe May 2018

Bodies On The Margins: A Multitude Of Voices, Kevin Timpe

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Kevin Timpe Reviews Elizabeth Barnes’ The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability


Review Of Noell Birondo And Stewart Braun, Eds., "Virtues Reasons", Kevin Timpe, Kaitlyn Eekhoff Feb 2018

Review Of Noell Birondo And Stewart Braun, Eds., "Virtues Reasons", Kevin Timpe, Kaitlyn Eekhoff

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No abstract provided.


Whose Motivation? Which Good?, James K.A. Smith Apr 2017

Whose Motivation? Which Good?, James K.A. Smith

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Review of Christian Smith's To Flourish or Destruct


Freedom And The Incarnation, Timothy Pawl, Kevin Timpe Nov 2016

Freedom And The Incarnation, Timothy Pawl, Kevin Timpe

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In this paper, we explore how free will should be understood within the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, particularly on the assumption of traditional Christology. We focus on two issues: (i) reconciling Christ's free will with the claim that Christ's human will was subjected to the divine will in the Incarnation; and (ii) reconciling the claims that Christ was fully human and free with the belief that Christ, since God, could not sin.


Executive Function, Disability, And Agency, Kevin Timpe Oct 2016

Executive Function, Disability, And Agency, Kevin Timpe

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This paper considers how a number of particular disabilities can impact agency primarily by affecting what psychologists refer to as ‘executive function.’ Some disabilities, I argue, could decrease agency even without fully undermining it. I see this argument as contributing to the growing literature that sees agency as coming in degrees. The first section gives a broad outline of a fairly standard approach to agency. The second section relates that framework to the existing literature, which suggests that agency comes in degrees. The third section considers the psychological literature on executive function with a particular focus on how aspects of …


The Other, Derrida, James K.A. Smith Feb 2014

The Other, Derrida, James K.A. Smith

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Review of Benoît Peeters' Derrida: A Biography


Practicing Hope, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung Jan 2014

Practicing Hope, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung

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In this essay, I consider how the theological virtue of hope might be practiced. I will first explain Thomas Aquinas's account of this virtue, including its structural relation to the passion of hope, its opposing vices, and its relationship to the friendship of charity. Then, using narrative and character analysis from the film The Shawshank Redemption, I examine a range of hopeful and proto-hopeful practices concerning both the goods one hopes for and the power one relies on to attain those goods. In particular, I show how the film's picture of the role friends and friendship play in catalyzing …


Knowing The Standard American Diet By Its Fruits: Is Unrestrained Omnivorism Spiritually Beneficial?, Matthew C. Halteman Oct 2013

Knowing The Standard American Diet By Its Fruits: Is Unrestrained Omnivorism Spiritually Beneficial?, Matthew C. Halteman

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This essay aims to challenge the standard [North] American diet's (SAD) default status in church and among North American Christians generally. It attempts to allay some common concerns about the suitability of food ethics as a topic for serious Christian discernment, and argues that SAD is not spiritually beneficial, drawing support from five traditional sources for Christian moral deliberation, including and especially general revelation and discernment of the fruits of the spirit.


Science And Religion Take Practice: Engaging Science As Culture, James K.A. Smith Mar 2013

Science And Religion Take Practice: Engaging Science As Culture, James K.A. Smith

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This article argues that current paradigms in the theology/science conversation effectively treat “science” as if it were equivalent to “nature”—with detrimental effects for the encounter between Christian theology and the natural sciences. In contrast, I suggest that recognizing science as culture has important implications for reconfiguring the theology/science dialogue.


David Foster Wallace To The Rescue, James K.A. Smith Mar 2013

David Foster Wallace To The Rescue, James K.A. Smith

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No abstract provided.


Salutary Slander, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung Nov 2012

Salutary Slander, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung

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Review of The Virtues of our Vices, by Emrys Westacott


What Galileo's Telescope Can't See, James K.A. Smith Sep 2012

What Galileo's Telescope Can't See, James K.A. Smith

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No abstract provided.