Disputationes

It was regular practice in the medieval university for faculty and students to engage in the art of disputation. This blog presupposes the corporate nature of the theological enterprise, supposing that theology, particularly Lutheran theology, can once again clarify its truth claims and provide rational justification for its positions.

Sunday, January 23, 2022

The Heideggerian Engine: A Glimpse Under the Hood

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In four days I shall begin taking another group of students through Heidegger's epic book, Being and Time . What should they know when ...

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Saturday, November 13, 2021

Transcendental Self-Reference, Spirit and God

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I remember distinctly my first reading of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason . I had learned about the semantic distinction between analyti...

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Thursday, October 14, 2021

The New Viator

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"I thought at that time that I was enjoying the conversation today with Darius, but I must admit now to uneasiness." "Why is...

Monday, May 17, 2021

Thoughts on Stewardship and Sorge

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Stewardship is about care, and Heidegger showed us that Sorge (care) is the way in which Dasein exists. To be Dasein is to be a creature, a...

Theology and the Philosophy of Science: The Syntactic and Semantic Views

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The Received View in the [hilosophy of science is the syntactic view. Accordingly, scientific theory is construed as a set of sentences ...

Sunday, May 02, 2021

Reflecting Judgments and another Kind of Metaphysics

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I. Kantian Background It is well known that Kant rejected traditional metaphysics, claiming that such metaphysics attempts to know that whic...

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Dennis Bielfeldt: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States; President of the Institute of Lutheran Theology and Director of the Christ School of Theology PhD Program

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