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[updated 26.02.2008]
Monographs
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006).
Jacques Derrida: Live Theory (London/New York: Continuum, 2005).
Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Press, 2004).
Speech
and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation, Radical Orthodoxy
Series (London and New York: Routledge, 2002). [Reviewed in Journal of the
British Society for Phenomenology, Religious Studies Review, Modern Theology,
Reviews in Religion and Theology, Sophia]
The
Fall of Interpretation: Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000). [Reviewed in Modern Theology,
Heythrop Journal, Religious Studies Review, Philosophia Reformata, Christian
Scholars' Review, Anglican Theological Review and International
Journal for Systematic Theology.]
Translation
Jean-Luc Marion, The Crossing of the Visible, translated by James K.A. Smith (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).
Co-authored
Kelly James Clark, Richard Lints, and James K.A. Smith, 101 Key Terms in Philosophy and Their Importance for Theology (Nashville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2004).
Edited Volumes
After Modernity? Secularity, Globalization, and the Re-enchantment of the World (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008).
Hermeneutics at the Crossroads: Interpretation in Christian Perspective, Kevin Vanhoozer, James K.A. Smith, and Bruce Ellis Benson, eds., Indiana Series in Philosophy of Religion (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming [2006]).
James K.A. Smith and James H. Olthuis, eds., Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, and Participation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005).
James K.A. Smith and Henry Venema, eds., The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith, Studies in Honor of James H. Olthuis (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2004).
Herman Dooyeweerd, In the Twilight of Western Thought: Studies in the Pretended Autonomy of Philosophical Thought, Collected Works B/4, Edited, with an Introduction (“Dooyeweerd’s Critique of ‘Pure’ Reason”) and Notes by James K.A. Smith (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999).
[Books In Progress]
The Violence of Finitude: Derrida and the Logic of Determination (Indiana University Press [projected]).
Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Learning and the Formation of Radical Disciples (to be completed in 2007, appearing 2008).
Thinking in Tongues: Elements of a Pentecostal Worldview, Pentecostal Manifestoes Series (Eerdmans, 2008).
Chapters in Edited Collections
“The Church as Social Theory: A Reformed Engagement with Radical Orthodoxy," in Daniel Treier and Mark Husbands, eds., A Community of the Word (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, forthcoming).
“A Little Story about Metanarratives: Lyotard, Religion, and Postmodernism” and “Response,” in Myron Penner, ed., Christianity and the Postmodern Turn (Grand Rapids: Brazos, forthcoming).
“On (True) Religion:
Contesting Postmodern Augustines,” in Encounters with Augustine,
eds. Elizabeth Hoppe and Mark Zlomislic (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming).
“Confessions of an Existentialist: Reading Augustine After Heidegger,”
with an exchange with Wayne Hankey, in Augustine and Heidegger, ed.
Craig J.N. Depaulo, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series (Bronx, NY:
Fordham University Press, forthcoming).
“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, forthcoming).
“Faith and the Conditions of Possibility of Experience: Response to Kevin
Hart,” The Experience of God, ed. Barbara Wall, Perspectives
on Continental Philosophy Series (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, forthcoming).
“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.
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
25 (2003): 97-114 [with a response by Graham Ward].
“Advice to Pentecostal Philosophers,” Journal of Pentecostal
Theology 16 (2003): 235-247.
“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.
Presentations
Refereed
“Empire, Ekklesia, and Evangelical Public Theology: A Critical Proposal,”
Evangelical Theology Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion,
San Antonio, TX, November 2004.
“Picturing Revelation: Idolatry and the Aesthetic in Rosenzweig and Marion,”
Arts, Literature & Religion Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy
of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 2004.
“Of Queens and Handmaidens: The Relation Between Philosophy, Theology,
and Worldview Revisited,” After Worldview Civitas Conference, Cornerstone
University, Grand Rapids, MI, September 2004.
“The Church as Social Theory: A Reformed Engagement with Radical Orthodoxy,”
Wheaton Theology Conference, Wheaton College, IL, April 15, 2004.
“Contesting Postmodern Augustine’s: On (True) Religion,” Augustine
and Augustinianisms Consultation, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of
Religion, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.
“Limited Inc/arnation: The Searle/Derrida Debate Revisited in Christian
Context,” Hermeneutics at the Crossroads Conference, Calvin College, May
2003.
“Hope Without Hope?:
A Phenomenological Critique of Derrida’s ‘Messianic’ Expectation,”
Theology and Continental Philosophy Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy
of Religion, Toronto, ON, November 2002.
“The Call as Gift: The Subject’s Donation in Levinas and Marion,”
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, IL, October,
2002.
“Pure Derrida?: Deconstruction and the Possibility of Emancipatory Critique,”
Theology and Religious Reflection Section, Annual Meeting of the American Academy
of Religion, Denver, CO, November 2001.
“The Camera as Sacrament: An Incarnational Film Theory in American Beauty,”
Religion and Visual Culture Group, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of
Religion, Denver, CO, November 2001.
“Towards an Incarnational Phenomenology: A Kierkegaardian Critique of
Levinas,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco,
CA, March 29, 2001.
“A Principle of Incarnation in Derrida’s (Theologische?) Jugendschriften:
Towards a ‘Confessional’ Theology,” Theology and Religious
Reflection Section, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Nashville,
TN, November 2000.
“Re-Kanting Postmodernism?: Derrida’s Religion Within the Limits
of Reason Alone,” American Academy of Religion, Western Region, Asuza
Pacific University, Los Angeles, CA, March 24, 2000.
“Between Predication and Silence: Augustine on How (Not) to Speak of God,”
Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion, Arlington, VA, February
25, 1999.
“How (Not) To Tell A Secret: Interiority and the Strategy of ‘Confession’
in Augustine,” XXIII Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance
Studies, Villanova University, October 10, 1998, Villanova, PA.
“Is Deconstruction an Augustinian Science?: Augustine, Derrida, and Caputo
on the Commitments of Philosophy,” Religion With/out Religion Colloquium,
Institute for Christian Studies, April 23, 1998, Toronto, ON.
“The Time of Language: The Fall to Interpretation in Early Augustine,”
Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, March 27,
1998, Pittsburgh, PA.
“The Babel of Pluralism: Postmodernity and the Justification of Healthcare
Policy,” Visions for Ethics and Humanities in a Changing Healthcare Environment,
Joint Meeting of the American Association of Bioethics, Society for Bioethics
Consultation, and the Society for Health and Human Values, November 6, 1997,
Baltimore, MD.
“Is Female Circumcision a Healthy Difference?: Cultural Standards, Health
Care Policy, and the Regulation of Health in Canada,” Global Markets,
Global Morals, Second Annual Laurier Conference on Business and Professional
Ethics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, October 24, 1997
“Credum ut deconstruam: Derrida's Augustinian Commitments,” XXII
International Conference on Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Studies, September
10-12, 1997, Villanova University.
“Determined Violence: Derrida's Structural Religion,” Mid-Atlantic
Region of the American Academy of Religion, March 22, 1997, Wilmington, DE.
“Of Prophets, Heretics, and Grand Inquisitors: The Hermeneutics of Heresy,”
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 24, 1996, New Orleans,
LA.
“Edenic Violence: The Fallenness of Interpretation in Derrida,”
Society of Christian Philosophers-Canada, May 29, 1996, Brock University, St.
Catherines, Ontario.
“Falling into the Garden: The Violence of Hermeneutics in Heidegger,”
Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought, May 28, 1996, Brock
University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
“The Commitments of Deconstruction: Derrida's Promise,” Eastern
International Region of the American Academy of Religion, April 12, 1996, Le
Moyne College, Syracuse, NY.
“Demythologizing Kerygma and Myth: Heidegger and Bultmann Revisited,”
Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion, March 28, 1996, Baltimore,
MD.
“Fire From Heaven: The Hermeneutics of Heresy,” Canadian Theological
Society, June 1, 1995, Université du Quebec à Montréal.
“The Art of Christian Atheism: Faith and Philosophy in Early Heidegger,”
Tri-Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, April 1, 1995, Boston,
MA.
“How to Avoid Not Speaking: Attestations,” Canadian Theological
Society, June 6, 1994, University of Calgary.
“Postmodern Freedom and the Growth of Fundamentalism: Was the Grand Inquisitor
Right?,” with Shane R. Cudney, Eastern International Region of the American
Academy of Religion, April 22, 1994, Université du Quebec à Montréal.
Invited Lectures, Commentaries, and Symposia
“Response to Milbank,” Ontologies in Practice Conference, University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, September 13, 2002.
“Faith and the Conditions of Possibility of Experience: A Response to
Kevin Hart,” The Experience of God Conference, Villanova University, November
8, 2001.
“The Integrity of Creation: Deleuze, Leibniz, and the Folds of Creation,”
Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, ON, October 29, 2001.
“The Fall of Interpretation,” Trinity Western University, Langley,
BC, September 25, 2001.
“Nietzsche’s Faith, or Why We Need an Even More Radical Hermeneutics,”
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Atlanta, GA, May 2001.
“Determined Hope: A Phenomenology of Christian Expectation,” Modernity,
Postmodernity, and the Future of Hope, Conference in Christian Scholarship,
Calvin College, May 2001.
“How (Not) To Speak of Analogy,” Society for Continental Philosophy
and Theology, Penn State, October 5, 2000.
“Staging the Incarnation: Revisioning Augustine’s Critique of Theater,”
Faculty Colloquium, Loyola Marymount University, Sept. 8, 2000.
“Re-Kanting Postmodernism?: Derrida’s Religion Within the Limits
of Reason Alone,” SynThink Symposium, Department of English, Loyola Marymount
University, March 15, 2000.
“Knowing Other secundum modum recipientis recipitur: A Reply to Crosby,”
Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Minneapolis,
MN, Nov. 6, 1999.
“A Little Story About Metanarratives: Lyotard, Religion, and Postmodernism,”
Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, October 29, 1999.
“Ethics at Work,” at the Keystone Chapter of the American Nephrology
Nurses Association, Bristol, PA, March 25, 1999.
“Forgiveness, Nonviolence, and the Challenge of Liberation Theology,”
at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom School, Villanova University, January
21, 1998.
“Recovering Babel and Reading Pentecost: The Plurality of Interpretation
and the Implications of a Creational Hermeneutic for Scriptural Exegesis,”
at the Conference Trust and Suspicion: Hermeneutics in a Broken World, hosted
by the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Ontario, May 23, 1997.