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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleUnmasking 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...
View ArticlePart 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...
View ArticlePart 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...
View ArticlePart 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...
View ArticleInvitation 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’...
View ArticleGregory 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...
View ArticleAugustine 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleFoucauldian 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...
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleAugustine 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...
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticlePart 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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