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Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College, 2002-
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University,
1999-2002
Publications
Books
The Fall of Interpretation:
Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic
(InterVarsity Press, 2000).
Speech and Theology:
Language and the Logic of Incarnation,
Radical Orthodoxy Series (Routledge, 2002).
Introducing Radical
Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology (Baker Academic, 2004).
101 Key Terms
in Philosophy and Their Importance for Theology, with Kelly James
Clark and Richard Lints (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2004).
Edited Volumes
Herman Dooyeweerd,
In The Twilight of Western Thought: Studies in the Pretended Autonomy
of Philosophical Thought, Collected Works B/4, with an Introduction
("Dooyeweerd's Critique of 'Pure' Reason") and Notes by James
K.A. Smith (Edwin Mellen, 1999).
Translation
Jean-Luc Marion,
The Crossing of the Visible, trans. James K.A. Smith (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2004).
Refereed Articles
“What Hath
Azusa Street To do With Cambridge?: Radical Orthodoxy and Pentecostal
Theology in Conversation,” PNEUMA: Journal of the Society for
Pentecostal Studies 24 (2002): forthcoming [with a response by Graham
Ward].
“Advice to Pentecostal Philosophers,” Journal of Pentecostal
Theology 16 (2002): forthcoming.
“A Principle of Incarnation in Derrida’s (Theologische?) Jugendschriften,”
Modern Theology 18 (2002): 217-230.
“A Little Story About Metanarratives: Lyotard, Religion, and Postmodernism
Revisited,” Faith and Philosophy 18 (2001): 261-276.
“Confessions of an Existentialist: Reading Augustine After Heidegger,”
New Blackfriars 82 (2001): 273-282 (Part I) and 335-347 (Part
II).
“Staging the Incarnation: Revisioning Augustine’s Critique
of Theater,” Literature and Theology 15 (2001): 123-139.
“Re-Kanting Postmodernism?: Derrida’s Religion Within the
Limits of Reason Alone,” Faith and Philosophy 17 (2000):
558-571.
“Taking Husserl at his Word: Towards a New Phenomenology with the
Young Heidegger,” Symposium: Journal of the Canadian Society
for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought 4 (2000): 89-115.
“How (Not) To Tell a Secret: Interiority and the Strategy of ‘Confession’
in Augustine,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
74 (2000): 135-151.
“Between Predication and Silence: Augustine on How (Not) to Speak
of God,” Heythrop Journal 41 (2000): 66-86.
“Liberating Religion From Theology: Marion and Heidegger on the
Possibility of a Phenomenology of Religion,” International Journal
for Philosophy of Religion 46 (1999): 17-33.
“The Time of Language: The Fall to Interpretation in Early Augustine,”
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Supplement: Annual
ACPA Proceedings 72 (1998): 185-199.
“Alterity, Transcendence, and the Violence of the Concept: Kierkegaard
and Heidegger” International Philosophical Quarterly 38.4
(1998): 369-381.
“Determined Violence: Derrida's Structural Religion,” The
Journal of Religion 78.2 (April 1998): 197-212.
“Respect and Donation: A Critique of Marion's Critique of Husserl,”
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71.4 (1997): 523-538.
“The Art of Christian Atheism: Faith and Philosophy in Early Heidegger,”
Faith and Philosophy 14 (1997): 71-81.
“Postmodern Freedom and the Growth of Fundamentalism: Was the Grand
Inquisitor Right?,” with Shane R. Cudney, Studies in Religion/Sciences
Religieuses 25 (1996): 35-49.
“Fire From Heaven: The Hermeneutics of Heresy,” Journal
of TAK 20 (1996): 13-31.
“Originary Violence: The Fallenness of Interpretation in Derrida,”
Concept: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Graduate Research 19
(1996): 27-41.
Chapters in
Collections
“Determined Hope: A Phenomenology
of Christian Expectation,” in Miroslav Volf and William Katerberg,
eds., The Future of Hope: Essays on Christian Tradition Amid Modernity
and Postmodernity (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004), pp. 200-227.
“Is Deconstruction
an Augustinian Science?: Augustine, Derrida, and Caputo on the Commitments
of Philosophy,” in James H. Olthuis, ed., Religion With/out
Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo (London: Routledge,
2001), pp. 50-61.
“How to Avoid Not Speaking: Attestations,” in James H. Olthuis,
ed., Knowing Other-wise: Philosophy on the Threshold of Spirituality,
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series (Bronx, NY: Fordham University
Press, 1997): 217-234.
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