B. Keith Putt
Professor of Philosophy
Education:
Ph.D./M.A.
Rice University
Ph.D./M.Div.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
B.A.
Blue Mountain College
| Address: | Department of Philosophy Samford University 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL 35229 |
| Office: | Chapman Hall 313 |
| Phone: | 205-726-4264 |
| Email: | bkputt@samford.edu |
Research Areas: Continental Philosophy; Radical Hermeneutics and Deconstruction; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical Theology
Publications:
Editor, Gazing Through a Prism Darkly: Reflections on Merold Westphal's Hermeneutical Epistemology Manuscript. Forthcoming from Fordham University Press, 2009.
"A Love That B(l)inds: Reflections on an Agapic Agnosticism," in The Wisdom of Love, eds. Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba. Forthcoming from Indiana University Press, 2008.
"Affirming Acceptance/Accepting Affirmation: Tillich's 'Stroke of Grace' and Derrida's 'Yes'" Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society 33 (Summer 2007): 16-22.
"Risking Love and the Divine 'Perhaps'": Postmodern Poetics of a Vulnerable God" Perspectives in Religious Studies 34 (Summer 2007): 193-214.
"From Babel to Pentecost: Proclamation, Translation, and the Risk of the Spirit" The Pneuma Review 10 (Summer 2007) 29-45.
"Violent Imitation or Compassionate Repetition: Girard and Caputo on Exemplary Atonement," in Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New Political Theology, ed. Clayton Crockett (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006): 21-45."Theopoetics of the Possible," in After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy, ed. John P. Manoussakis (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006): 241-69.
"'Too Deep for Words': The Conspiracy of a Divine 'Soliloquy,'" in The Phenomenology of Prayer, eds. Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005): 142-53.
"Imagination, Kenosis, and Repetition: Richard Kearney's Theopoetics of the Possible God," Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 60 (2004): 953-83.
"Faith, Hope, and Love: Radical Hermeneutics as a Pauline Philosophy of Religion," in A Passion for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus, ed. Mark Dooley (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003): 237-50.
"Rendering to Caesar, Surrendering to God," in Christian Reflection: Prophetic Ethics (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2003).
"Analogia Civitatis et Corporis: Speaking the Language of the Christian Cosmopolis." Review essay of Graham Ward's Cities of God in the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 5.1 (December 2003).
"The Benefit of the Doubt: Merold Westphal's Prophetic Philosophy of Religion" Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 3 (August 2002).
"Prayers of Confession and Tears of Contrition: A Radically 'Baptist' Hermeneutic of Repentance," in Religion With/Out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo, ed. James Olthuis (New York: Routledge, 2002): 62-79.
"An Interview with John D. Caputo," in Religion With/Out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo, ed. James Olthuis (New York: Routledge, 2002): 150-79.
"Indignation Toward Evil: Ricoeur and Caputo on a Theodicy of Protest" Philosophy Today 41 (Fall 1997): 460-70.
"The Im/possibility of a Passionate God: A Postconservative Mani(n)festation of Caputo's Kingdom Christology" Perspectives in Religious Studies 24 (Winter 1997): 447-67.
"Preunderstanding and the Hermeneutical Spiral," in Biblical Hermeneutics: A Comprehensive Introduction to Interpreting Scripture. 1st ed. Eds. Bruce Corley, Steve Lemke, and Grant Lovejoy (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1996): 203-14.
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