Steven E. Knepper is Associate Professor of English and the Bruce C. Gottwald, Jr. ’81 Chair for Academic Excellence at the Virginia Military Institute. He is the author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond (SUNY, 2022), the editor of A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible (Cascade, 2023), and the co-author, with Robert Wyllie and Ethan Stoneman, of Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction (Polity, forthcoming 2024).
Ryan G. Duns, SJ, is Associate Professor of Theology at Marquette University. He is the author of Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond’s Quest for God (Notre Dame, 2020) and the forthcoming Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Films (Notre Dame, 2024).
PODCAST LINKS:
A Heart of Flesh: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666738452/a-heart-of-flesh/
Fr. Ryan’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RyanDunsSJ
Steve’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/StevenEKnepper
Fr. Ryan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DunsSj
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SOURCES MENTIONED:
Bespaloff, Rachel. “On the Iliad.”
Desmond, William. Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness: An Essay on Origins.
———. Godsends: From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation.
———. The William Desmond Reader.
Duns, Ryan G., SJ. Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God.
Knepper, Steven E. Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction.
———. Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond.
———, ed. A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible.
Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age.
———. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity.
Weil, Simone. “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force.”
OUTLINE:
(01:53) – Discovering William Desmond
(05:12) – Fr. Ryan’s roundtable: Desmond, Levertov, Murdoch, Rahner
(07:27) – Steve’s roundtable: Desmond, Marcel, Bespaloff, Chrétien
(11:31) – Describing William Desmond
(19:40) – Between metaphysics and phenomenology
(28:17) – The four senses of being
(35:47) – “A heart of flesh”
(39:30) – Reading Scripture metaxologically
(45:41) – Reading 1 and 2 Samuel with Desmond
(50:47) – Reading Jesus’ parables with Desmond
(55:43) – What’s next for Fr. Ryan
(57:51) – What’s next for Steve
(59:52) – Where to find Fr. Ryan and Steve
Andrew Remington Rillera / Sacrifice and Atonement in the Bible
Sean J. McGrath / Political Eschatology
Universalism Booth, Pt. 3 / Jordan Daniel Wood / Catholic Universalism
Universalism Booth, Pt. 2 / David W. Congdon / Existential Universalism
Universalism Booth, Pt. 1 / Robin A. Parry / Evangelical Universalism
Douglas A. Campbell and Jon DePue / Liberating Paul’s Gospel from Justification Theory
L. Ann Jervis / The Apostle Paul and the Temporality of Christ
JD Lyonhart / Henry More on Space and the Divine
Aimee Patterson / Severe Suffering and the Call to Compassion
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth / The Holocaust and Endangered Democracy Today
Patočka Booth, Pt. 3 / Martin Koci / Jan Patočka and Christian Theology
Patočka Booth, Pt. 2 / David Lloyd Dusenbury / Jan Patočka's Heretical Perspectives on European History
Patočka Booth, Pt. 1 / Erin Plunkett / The "Solidarity of the Shaken"
Luminaries / John Milbank / Metaphysics and Radical(ized) Orthodoxy
Nicholas Denysenko / Ukraine, Russia, and the Church’s Unholy War
Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 4 / Roberto J. De La Noval and Mark Roosien / Bulgakov the Man, Priest, and Theologian
Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 3 / Sarah Livick-Moses / Bulgakov on Sophia and Eschatological Politicism
Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 2 / Jordan Daniel Wood / Bulgakov: Alive to God, Alive to the World
Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 1 / Regula M. Zwahlen / Bulgakov and the “Revolutionary Spirit of Revelation”
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