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Item Liberating Tradition: An Exploration of Liberation Theology Through the Lens of Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics(Institute for Christian Studies, 2016)What we have, then, is a full elaboration of St. Paul’s words: ‘Where sin abounds, there does grace more abound’ (Rom 5:20). The liberation theme of Medellin is salvation itself, but with a difference. The salvation-redemption achieved by and in Christ is seen in a context more truly universal than we are often accustomed to realize. What is ‘new’ in the documents of the Latin American Conference is not the doctrine itself, but rather the amplitude, the proportions that our traditional doctrine on redemption assumes…. The Savior’s redemptive mission is directed to the spirit, but to the incarnated spirit, to the spirit inextricably united to matter, flesh, society, and institutions. - James T. O’Connor1Item Michel Foucault's ascesis and the Christian epistemologization of the subject in Foucault's genealogical technique de soi(Institute for Christian Studies, 2006)In this thesis I examine Foucault's later writings in the 80s on the technology of the self and engage current scholarship that discusses the applicability of Foucault's use of this concept for understanding freedom in Christian theology. After a detailed examination of Foucault's writings on this subject matter I show that lie sharply contrasts an "aesthetics of existence," a term referring to the self in ancient Greece, from a Christian technology of the self. This latter term I show is in fact precisely what Foucault exposes as a constrictive technology of the self which he credits as making an indefinite subject into a predicable, knowable and definite subject. Bringing this prevalent distinction into the greater scholarship on Foucault, I challenge some readings that support the view that a premodern Christian ascesis functioned as an inspirational source for Foucault's "critical ontology" of the modern subject.Item Decreation: The Unity of Action and Contemplation in Simone Weil(Institute for Christian Studies, 2024-05)"As described above, any introduction to Simone Weil that foregrounds the events of her extraordinary life at the expense of her ideas is, in my view, insufficient. That is not to say, however, that her personal experiences ought to be ignored. In fact, it would be unwise to attempt to divide her personhood from her philosophical and mystical ideas. According to Marie-Magdeleine Davy, Weil is “essentially paradoxical, even contradictory” but she “nevertheless presented in herself a perfect unity.” This unity is not merely true in the sense that apparent contradictions in philosophy can be reconciled, but also in that the apparent political and mystical division of her life and commitments are bound together. In Davy’s description, “from whatever angle you look at her, from the intellectual, the religious or social, she is entirely a whole.” Despite this, scholarship on Weil often approaches her from one of two directions: either the socio-political or the mystical and religious. Seminal texts like A Truer Liberty: Simone Weil and Marxism partition her thought into categories like “Liberty,” “Oppression,” and “Power,” and minimally engage with her mystical theology. This kind of categorization is not without its uses; for one, it allows scholars to engage with individual concepts in depth while leaving behind the aspects of her thought more peripheral to their concerns, but partitioning the mystical and political into distinct categories can too easily allow scholars to disregard their interconnectivity."Item Perspective vol. 58 no. 1 (Spring 2024)(2024-05-01)Item Annual Report 2022-2023 (Institute for Christian Studies)(Institute for Christian Studies, 2023-11-30)
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