Steven DeLay / Kierkegaard and French Phenomenology
The Theology Mill
Coffee Preferences and Top Books of 2022
Discussion on coffee preferences, anecdotes about black coffee and a Mennonite bakery, and recommendations for top books read in 2022.
Steven DeLay earned his PhD in philosophy at Oxford in 2017 and is the author of several books of philosophy and fiction, including a handful now with Wipf and Stock.
In this standalone interview, Steven talks Kierkegaard, phenomenology, philosophy for Protestants, and the relationship between theology and fiction.
PODCAST LINKS:
Steven’s author page: https://wipfandstock.com/author/steven-delay/
Steven’s website: https://stevendelay.com/
Steven’s academia.edu page: https://oxford.academia.edu/StevenDeLay
Temple Coffee Roasters: https://templecoffee.com/
CONNECT:
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SOURCES MENTIONED:
Bergo, Bettina. Anxiety: A Philosophical History.
Chrétien, Jean-Louis. Conscience et roman 1: La conscience au grand jour.
Clemente, Matthew. “As If It Were True: An Interview with Richard Kearney.”
DeLay, Steven. In the Spirit: A Phenomenology of Faith.
———. Phenomenology in France: A Philosophical and Theological Introduction.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.
Falque, Emmanuel. Crossing the Rubicon: The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology.
Fowles, John. The Magus: A Novel.
Graves, Adam J. The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur.
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time.
Hopp, Walter. Phenomenology: A Contemporary Introduction.
Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling.
Marion, Jean-Luc. Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness.
———. A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment.
———. God Without Being: Hors-Texte.
———. The Idol and Distance: Five Studies.
———. Negative Certainties.
———. Reduction and Givenness: Investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology.
Pascal, Blaise. Pensées.
Plantinga, Alvin. Warranted Christian Belief.
Rudd, Anthony. Painting and Presence: Why Paintings Matter.
Sellars, Wilfrid. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.
OUTLINE:
(01:28) – Decaf coffee, black coffee
(04:14) – Favorite books of 2022
(07:09) – Rice University – Oxford University
(09:43) – A conversion via Kierkegaard
(12:35) – Literature – philosophy – phenomenology – theology
(16:52) – Barth, Bultmann, and Rudolf Otto
(18:46) – Why should Christians read philosophy?
(23:05) – The merits of reading atheists and agnostics
(29:13) – Heidegger, onto-theology, and negative theology
(32:45) – Phenomenology a Catholic science?
(39:38) – Philosophy for Protestants
(41:30) – The GOAT of phenomenology
(44:16) – The hermeneutical critique of phenomenology
(47:41) – Desert island: phenomenology books
(49:38) – Philosophy and fiction
(59:31) – Steven’s forthcoming work
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