Projects
Schelling's Philosophical Theology. Tracing the Idea of the Absolute KU Leuven
Schelling’s philosophy has attracted an increasing scholarly interest recently. What previous genera-tions of philosophers found irritating, i.e., that this philosophy cannot easily be categorized as a vari-ety of German Idealism, is precisely what many contemporary scholars find attractive. For them, Schelling is important not only as a sharp critic of German Idealism but also a precursor of much later philosophical paradigms such as ...
Schelling's Philosophical Theology KU Leuven
The widening horizons in philosphical theology. KU Leuven
This project will examine and present a variety of religious practices and traditions under the heading of a metaphysics of contemplation, a metaphysics which is not reducible to abstract theorizing, but reflects on its loci in historical, communal and performative ways of encountering reality as a whole.
Truth and tradition: Augustine's notion of sapientia in dialogue with Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics KU Leuven
This research primarily concerns Augustine’s theory of divine illumination. His dissertation, entitled Truth and Tradition, is aimed at a recovery of Augustinian illumination in the language of contemporary philosophy, in particular that of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics. The upshot is a theological, philosophical, and historical study of competing views of truth and rationality (premodern, modern, and postmodern) in critical ...
The Modern Afterlife of Heresy: Philosophical Eschatology and Erotic Knowledge KU Leuven
Sabbatical Henning Tegtmeyer: God’s properties. The natural theology of the divine attributes KU Leuven
First of all, I intend to write a book on divine attributes from the standpoint of natural theology, and thus from a purely philosophical approach, during the Sabbath period. It is mainly about the link between the arguments for existence and the theory of the attributes of God, but also about the concept of divine causality in relation to God. the metaphysics of creation. An additional focus, however, is the metaphysics of good and evil and ...
The Virgin and the Rose: Dispossession as Feminine Political Theology in Simone Weil and Gillian Rose KU Leuven
This project is a critical comparative analysis of the political theology of French Catholic philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943) and English Jewish philosopher Gillian Rose (1947–1995). I invert the criticism that Weil and Rose’s controversial relation to themselves as women as well their silence concerning the political status of women compromises their work. I do this by demonstrating that their thought contains a ‘feminine’ dimension. This ...
God and Street Smarts: Theological Foundations of a Theology of Culture KU Leuven
This project intends to propose a conceptual model for a contemporary theology of culture that can contribute to the fields of systematic and philosophical theology. In order to achieve this, recent developments in the contemporary theology of culture will be explored and mapped out to develop a typology. The typology will be evaluated through the study of Graham Ward’s theological cultural hermeneutics. The resulting data will be assessed ...