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:
Blog post: https://wipfandstock.com/blog/2023/02/07/standalone-episode-steven-delay-kierkegaard-phenomenology-and-the-relationship-between-philosophy-and-theology-and-fiction/
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
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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
The Theology Mill