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James K.A. Smith

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Natural Law’s Secularism?—A Response to Christian Smith

I deeply appreciate—and am just a little surprised—that Christian Smith (CS) would take time to respond to my review essay, “The (Re)Turn to the Person in Contemporary Theory.”James K. A. Smith, “The (Re)Turn to the Person in Contemporary Theory: A Review Essay,”Christian Scholar’s Review 40:1 (2010): 77-92. Due to some comments later in C. Smith’s…
James K.A. Smith
January 15, 2011
Review Essays

The (Re)Turn to the Person in Contemporary Theory—A Review Essay

Introduction “Before the end of the eighteenth century, man did not exist.”Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage, 1994 ), 308. So claimed Michel Foucault in his intellectual archaeology of modernity, The Order of Things. Indeed “man,”I am framing this with the gender-specific term “man” in this…
James K.A. Smith
October 15, 2010
Review Symposium

Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation by James K.A. Smith

“Beyond the Mind” by Todd C. Ream Taylor University recently began a new campaign with the motto of “Beyond the Mind.” Billboards brandished these words along with images of students. Atfirst glance I must admit I was somewhat perplexed by this effort. Passing one of these billboards on Interstate 69 in northeastern Indiana I thought,…
Todd C. Ream, Perry L. Glanzer, David S. Guthrie, Steven M. Nolt, David Wright and James K.A. Smith
January 15, 2010