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An Interview: Approaching Texts as Philosophical Improvisations

For those interested, I was interviewed recently by a colleague, fellow philosopher, and friend, J. Douglas Macready, who blogs at The Relative Absolute. In the interview, we discuss informally, what I...

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An Augustinian Improvisation on Bakhtin’s Two Categories of Discourse

Throughout his narrative in the Confessions, St. Augustine brings to our attention the ways in which his social context shaped him. In other words, although an actor in an unfolding drama, Augustine...

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Unmasking Socio-Political Rhetorical Strategies, Augustine and Foucault on...

Like Augustine, Foucault too manifests concern for the marginalized of society, devoting himself to the study of prisons and mental institutions and to the ways in which these structures and their...

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Part I: Divjak Letter 10* and St. Augustine as Socio-political Activist

Does St. Augustine’s theology make him a socio-political passivist?  Many assume it does. However, the fairly recent discovery of almost thirty previously unknown letters of St. Augustine by Johannes...

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Part II: Divjak Letter 10* and St. Augustine as Socio-political Activist

In epistle 10*, addressed to Alipius, the bishop of Thagaste, Augustine brings to Alipius’s attention his concerns regarding the activities of slave dealers in his region. As Augustine explains, these...

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Part I: Un-Masking Marauders à la Augustine and Foucault

Anyone who has studied with care Augustine’s masterpiece, City of God, particularly the first five books as well as book nineteen, would, I believe, see a very socially engaged, politically astute...

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Invitation to My Dissertation Lecture, August 29th

To all in the D/FW area interested in the topic, I would like to extend an invitation to participate in my dissertation lecture. My dissertation is entitled, “Constructed Subjectivities and a ‘Thick’...

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Gregory on the Compatibility of Augustinian Liberalism and a Feminist Ethic...

I have been reading Eric Gregory’s excellent book, Politics & the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship.  Although I do not have time to give a full review of the book, I...

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Augustine and Co-laboring With Like-minded Others for the Common Good

Oliver O’Donovan lays out an extremely helpful overview of the structure of City of God 19, which includes an explanation of why Augustine must wait until book 19 to return to themes discussed in book...

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A Way Into Scholasticism: A Companion to St. Bonaventure’s The Soul’s Journey...

It is my pleasure to post the following book promotion for my very good friend and colleague, Peter S. Dillard. Below is Peter’s brief academic biography and a short summary (originally posted here) of...

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Foucauldian Strategies for the “Non-Purist” Contemporary Augustinian with...

I recently finished an essay on Augustine and Foucault that brings both thinkers into critical dialogue.  Although in the essay itself I highlight strengths and weaknesses of both Foucault and...

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Book Plug: Incarnational Realism. Trinity and Spirit in Augustine and Barth...

Travis E. Ables’s book, Incarnational Realism. Trinity and Spirit in Augustine and Barth, takes as its point of departure the late 20th century claim that Latin Christianity lacks a robust...

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Augustine on the Ever-questioning Enigmatic Self

Although Augustine’s journey led him to God in whom he found a home, nonetheless, he neither achieved nor claimed to have achieved complete self-knowledge or an existence free of suffering and...

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Book Plug: Augustine’s Invention of the Inner Self. The Legacy of a Christian...

The “book plug” below was written by Dr. Gary R. Brown, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Dallas. Many thanks to Gary for his contribution. Is Augustine’s Invention Illusory? In Phillip...

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Book Plug: Heidegger’s Confessions by Ryan Coyne

Countering a Significant Omission: Heidegger’s Confessions Reviewed by Dr. Gary R. Brown, University of Dallas It is well-known that the compelling breadth and depth of Heidegger’s thought is due in...

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Part II: Divjak Letter 10* and St. Augustine as Socio-political Activist

In epistle 10*, addressed to Alipius, the bishop of Thagaste, Augustine brings to Alipius’s attention his concerns regarding the activities of slave dealers in his region. As Augustine explains, these...

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