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PROFESSOR AH VERHOEF
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Anné Hendrik
Verhoef
1972/06/07
Male
anne.verhoef@nwu.ac.za
Associate Professor
Arts
Philosophy
https://nwu.academia.edu/AHVerhoef
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Matriculated (A-average) in 1990, Huguenot High School, Wellington, South Africa.
Obtainded the following degrees from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa:
BA
1994
 Afrikaans & Dutch Literature
 Philosophy
 Theological Subjects
BD (cum laude)
1997
 Specializes in Dogmatics and Ethics
 Dissertation: A Critical enquiry into the role of the church in society
BA Hons (cum laude) 1999
 Philosophy
 Exchange student at University of Leuven, Belgium
Mth (cum laude)
2003
 Title of thesis: “Trinity and time in Robert Jenson’s theology”
DTh
2008
 Title of thesis: “Alpha and Omega. A study in the trinitarian thought of Robert Jenson”
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CAREER HISTORY
1997-1998 Research Assistant: Philosophy of Education. Department of Education, University of
Stellenbosch.
1998-1999 Resident caretaker & Counsellor. Stellenbosch Shelter for the Homeless.
1999-2000 Counsellor & Assistant manager: Children’s Home. Catherine Robson Children’s Home,
Vereeniging.
2000-2009 Minister of religion: South Coast Congregation. Dutch Reformed Church, Amanzimtoti.
2010-2013 Senior Lecturer: School of Philosophy. North-West University, Potchefstroom
2014 Associate Professor: School of Philosophy. North-West University, Potchefstroom.
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AWARDS RECEIVED
Research and project awards
2014. Research award for study abroad as visiting scholar. R80 000.00
2014. NWU. Top 20% Achiever of the North-West University (Research & Tuition). R34 000.00
2013. NWU. Top 20% Achiever of the North-West University (Research & Tuition). R33 000.00
2013. Faculty of Arts, NWU, top 10 achiever in producing research outputs
2012. NWU. Top 20% Achiever of the North-West University (Research & Tuition). R33 000.00
2012. Faculty of Arts, NWU, top 10 achiever in producing research outputs.
2011. NWU. Top 20% Achiever of the North-West University (Research & Tuition). R30 000.00
VERKA / ITEA awards
2013. ITEA (Institutional Teaching Excellence Award) from the NWU, A-Category. Tuition.
R30 000.00
Other awards
1998. Stellenbosch University. Gustav and Mari Gerdener Bursary-award for best student in
Missiology. R2500.00
2004. Stellenbosch University. Student Leadership Award (Primarius of Men’s Hostel).
2006. Coventry Cathedral, United Kingdom. International Cross of Nails Peace Award. Awarded
to the congregation of which I was a minister during that time.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES MEMBER OF
The Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA). Member 2010The Theological Society of South Africa (TSSA). Member 2010The South African Academy for Science and Arts (SAASA). Member 2010The South African Centre for Phenomenology. Member 2013The Society for Ricoeur Studies. Member 2012The Dutch- Afrikaans Philosophical Society (Nederlands- Afrikaanstalige Wijsgerige
Genootschap). Member 2013-
TEACHING OF MODULES
Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy & Health Sciences
Philosophy & Literature
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Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Culture
Philosophy of Religion
Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION
OBTAINED CUM LAUDE:
2015 MA
Mark Amiradakis
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Theme of his dissertation: “The dialectical nature of Social Networking”
2014 MPhil
Jacobus P. Erasmus
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Theme of his dissertation: “The Kal¯am Cosmological Argument and the Infinite God
Objection”
2014 MPhil
Louis E. Van Zyl
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Theme of his dissertation: “Die ontstaan van die menslike bewussyn: bied panpsigisme ’n
uitweg?” (The origin of human consciousness: does panpsychism offer an alternative?)
2013 Mphil
Jean du Toit
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Theme of his dissertation: “Teilhard De Chardin as Response to Modernity’s NatureHuman Dichotomy in Environmental Ethics”
OBTAINED:
2014 Mphil
Werner G. Human
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Theme of his dissertation: “The philosophical question of the origin of evil”
2013 Mphil
Magda C. Diedericks
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Theme of her dissertation: “The Neo-Platonism’s influence on Augustine’s concept of
beauty”
2012 Mphil
Willie G.J. van der Bank
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Theme of his dissertation: “Inter-religious harmony: an analysis of John Hick’s view of
normative pluralism”
IN PROCESS:
2013 Mphil
Carl W. Janse van Rensburg
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Theme of his dissertation: “A philosophical analysis of the concept leadership in the
business context”
2013 MPhil
Conrad Weiss
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Theme of his dissertation: “A typology of fundamentalism”
2014 MPhil
Marquard D. Pienaar
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
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Theme of dissertation: “A view of God to consider: Critique of Richard Kearney’s
anatheism”
2014 Mphil
Hennie A. Kruger
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Knowledge vs. Information
2014 PhD
Jean du Toit
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Title: Digital media and Merleau Ponty: The fluidity of “reality” perception
2014 PhD
Jacobus Erasmus
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Title: Towards a more persuasive Calam Cosmological argument: permitting the actual
infinite
2015 PhD
Petro du Preez
Philosophy, NWU, Study leader
Title: To be confirmed
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH OUTPUTS
Articles in subsidised magazines (peer reviewed)
VERHOEF, A.H. & ERASMUS, J. 2015. The Kalam Cormological Argument and the Infinite God
Objection. Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (accepted,
forthcoming)
VERHOEF, A.H. & KRUGER, J. 2015. Existence and essence in Venda oral literature. Literator: Journal of
Literary Criticism, Comparatice Linguistics and Literary Studies (accepted, forthcoming)
VERHOEF, A.H. & RATHBONE, M. 2015. A theologically informed ontology of land in the context of
South African land redistribution. Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (accepted,
forthcoming)
VERHOEF, A.H. & RATHBONE, M. 2015. The collusive power of colonialism and modernity and the
need for alternative ontologies of land in the context of South African land redistribution.
Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (accepted, forthcoming)
VERHOEF, A.H. 2014. Paul Ricoeur en die belang van die transendentale aard van geluk. Tydskrif vir
Geesteswetenskappe, 54(4), 771-786.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2014. Sisyphus, happiness and transcendence. South African Journal of Philosophy,
33(4), 537-546. [DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2014.976757 Published online 27 October]
VERHOEF, A.H. 2014. The relation between evil and transcendence: new possibilities? South African
Journal of Philosophy, 33 (3), 259-269. [DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2014.914321 Published
online 28 July]
VERHOEF, A.H. 2013. Embodied religion’s radicalization of immanence and the consequent question of
transcendence. Acta Academica. 45(4), 173-194
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VERHOEF, A.H. 2013. The relation between creation and salvation in the Trinitarian theology of Robert
Jenson. HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #1191, 7 pages.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v69i1.1191
VERHOEF, A.H. & RATHBONE, M. 2013. Economic justice and prophetic discourse in the South African
context – towards a dialogical mode of discourse. Journal of Theology for Southern Africa
145:92-109
VERHOEF, A.H. & RATHBONE, M. 2012. Violence, liberation and the legacy of modernity: towards a
theology of peace. Scriptura: International Journal of Bible, Religion and Theology in
Southern Africa 109:67-81
VERHOEF, A.H. 2012. How to do philosophy of religion: towards a possible speaking about the
impossible. South African Journal of Philosophy 31(2), 419-432
VERHOEF, A.H. 2012. Postmodernism and the need for story and promise: how Robert Jenson’s
theology addresses some postmodern challenges to faith. Acta Theologica, 32(1), 170-188
VERHOEF, A.H. 2011. Concerns about the future of creation order, Koers, 76(4), 731-749
VERHOEF, A.H. 2011. Robert Jenson's ecumenical vision based on his Trinitarian thought. Dutch
Reformed Theological Journal, Vol 52, Issue 1 & 2, Mar / Jun, 238-246
VERHOEF, A.H. 2011. Timelessness, Trinity and Temporality, Acta Academica, 43(2), 82-112
VERHOEF, A.H. 2011. Trinity, Time and Ecumenism in Robert Jenson's theology. Dutch Reformed
Theological Journal, Vol 52, Issue 1 & 2, Mar / Jun, 247-256
VERHOEF, A.H. 2008. How is Robert Jenson telling the Story? Scriptura: International Journal of Bible,
Religion and Theology in Southern Africa 98, 231-243
Books and contributions to books (subsidised/peer reviewed)
VERHOEF, A.H. 2012. Robert Jenson (1930-) – A dramatic teleology of creation. (In: Conradie, E.
ed. Creation and Salvation: Volume 2: A Companion on Recent Theological Movements (Studies
in Religion and the Environment / Studien zur Religion und Umwelt). Munster: LIT Verlag. p. 106111.)
Not-subsidised articles
VERHOEF, A.H. 2014. Sal ons weer tot verhaal kan kom? Die uitdaging van postmodernisme aan
’n wêreld sonder ’n storie en ’n belofte. Woord en Daad, 53 (423), 13-14.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2014. Etiese wysheidsmodelle en ontgroening aan die NWU. Woord en Daad,
(accepted, forthcoming)
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VERHOEF, A.H., 2012, ‘Die herhaalde verskyning van transendensie in verskeie kulturele
fenomene’, Koers – Bulletin for Christian Scholarship 77(2), Art. #437, 1 page.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/koers.v77i2.436
VERHOEF, A.H., 2012, ‘ʼn Heuristiese model van vier tipes transendensie’, Koers – Bulletin for
Christian Scholarship 77(2), Art. #437, 2 pages.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/koers.v77i2.437
VERHOEF, A.H. 2012. Transendensie in ʼn post-metafisiese, post-transendente tyd. Woord en
Daad, Winter no 420, pp 11-13.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2011. “Ekonomiese vryheid” en ons gedeelde hoop en vrese. Woord en Daad,
Herfs/Autumn no 415, pp 14-16.
Not-subsidised contributions to books
VERHOEF, A.H. 2009. In silence lies unity. In: Brittion, S. (ed). Pilgrimage of Hope: a
commemoration of twenty-three years of Diakonia’s Good Friday Services. Durban: Diakonia
Council of Churches. p. 88 (ISSN 1-874985-99-5).
Popular books and articles
VERHOEF, A.H. 2011. Filosofies nagedink: Verlore tyd en werklike tyd. Kerkbode, 5 Augustus: 24.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2011. Comrades Marathon: The ultimate human race. Huisgenoot, 14 Julie, 42.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2010. Durban, Potchefstroom en “die stad van God”. Kerkbode, 3 September: 14.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2010. Is dit hoekom ons mure bou? Kerkbode, 5 Februarie:11.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2010. God se dood en Kersfees. Kerkbode, 3 Desember: 13.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2009. Ons voorstede verander – moet die kerk ook? Kerkbode, 20 Maart: 7
VERHOEF, A.H. 2009. Power to serve and love. Inselelo, September: 10.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2008. Zuma en Godsdiens – waar lê sy sentimente? Kerkbode, 25 Januarie:10-11.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2007. God en die ekonomie. Kerkbode, 25 Mei:7.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2007. Madonna... en Madonna. Kerkbode, 23 November:6.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2007. ʼn Ander leefwêreld – ʼn ander bediening. Kerkbode, 9 Maart:13.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2006. Cross of Nails awarded to Durban churches. Inselelo, September:9.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2006. Dis tyd vir ‘n nuwe ekonomie. Kerkbode, 13 Oktober:14.
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Internal university textbooks
VERHOEF, A.H. 2012. Ethical Questions. (Study Guide for PHIL 111 course at NWU,
Potchefstroom.) Printed by Ivyline Technologies, Potchefstroom.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2012. Philosophy of Language and Literature. (Study Guide for WVLS 312 cours
at NWU, Potchefstroom.) Printed by Platinum Press, Potchefstroom.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2012. Understanding the Cultural World. (Study Guide for WVCS/SS 221 course
at NWU, Potchefstroom.) Printed by Platinum Press, Potchefstroom.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2012. Philosophy of Language. (Study Guide for PHIL 321 course at NWU,
Potchefstroom.) Printed by Platinum Press, Potchefstroom.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2011. Understanding the World of Health. (First study unit in the Study Guide for
WVGW 221 course at NWU, Potchefstroom.) Printed by Platinum Press, Potchefstroom.
VERHOEF, A.H. 2010. Philosophy of Religion. (Study Guide for FILH 680 and FILM 881 courses at
NWU, Potchefstroom.) Printed by Platinum Press, Potchefstroom.
COMMUNITY SERVICE IN UNIVERSITY CONTEXT
Act as specialist peer reviewer for the books:
Principles of Responsible Management: Maximizing Social and Environmental Business
Performance. 2013. By Oliver Laasch, Roger Conaway, and Nick Tolhurst.
Transforming theological knowledge: Essays on theology and the university after apartheid.
2012. By Venter, R & Tolmie, F (eds.) SUN Press: Stellenbosch/Bloemfontein.
Act as specialist peer reviewer for journals:
Since 2010 I acted several times (in brackets) as reviewer for the following peer-review journals:
1. South African Journal of Philosophy (4),
2. Dutch Reformed Theological Journal (4),
3. Koers – Bulletin for Christian Scholarship (3),
4. Acta Theologica (2),
5. Journal for Christian Scholarship (3),
6. Scriptura: International Journal of Bible, Religion and Theology in Southern Africa (2),
7. In Luce Verbi / In die Skriflig (1),
8. Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (2),
9. Philosophical Papers and Review (1)
10. Verbum et Ecclesia (3)
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11. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae (1)
12. Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion (1)
13. Journal for the study of Religion (1)
14. Woord en Daad / Word and Action (2)
MEMBERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETIES, COUNCILS, ETC.
Commissions, committees and councils (university)
The Faculty of Arts Council. Member 2011 –
Teaching Committee of the Arts Faculty. Member 2011 –
Sub-committees of the Teaching Committee on “philosophy of education” and on “minimum
criteria for academic assignments of students”. Member 2011-2012.
Faculty of Arts committee on the language policy of the NWU. Member 2012.
Faculty of Arts committee on transformation at the NWU. Member 2013.
Senate of NWU Potchefstroom Campus. Member 2015 –
Commissions, committees and councils (outside university context)
Diakonia Council of Churches in Durban. Member of council as well as member of the executive
council. 2001-2009
Provincial Council of UCSA on KZN. Member and Chairperson. (UCSA is the Uniting Christian
Student Association). 2001-2009
South African Council of Churches Central Committee. Represented Diakonia Council of
Churches on the South African Council of Churches. 2009
African Union Peer Review Committee on Religion. Represented the Dutch Reformed Church as
member on the committee. 2006
Council of Durban South Churches (“Ring van Durban-Suid NG Kerke”). Member, as well as
scribe. 2001-2009
Member of editorial staff
Editorial committee for “The News Beacons” (Church Bulletin). Editor 2000-2009.
Editorial committee for “Inselelo” (Diakonia Council of Churches). Member 2006-2009.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPOSURE AND APPEARANCES
Participation in INTERNATIONAL conferences, exhibitions, performances or performance of
compositions
2014. On the Margins of transcendence. Paper presented at the International conference of Paul
Ricoeur, at the Ricoeur Society’s annual meeting, University of Antwerpen, Belgium, 20
September.
2014. Is God evolving or dissolving? Paper presented at the European Philosophy of Religion
Society’s biannual conference at the University of Munster, Germany, on 29 August.
2014. Paul Ricoeur en die belang van die transendentale aard van geluk, referaat gelewer by
Nederlands Afrikaanstalige Wijsgerige Genootskap te Utrecht, Nederland op 23 Mei
2013. The relation between evil and transcendence: new possibilities? Paper presented at the
XXIII World Congress of Philosophy on “Philosophy as inquiry and way of life”. Organized
by the Hellenic Society and hosted by the National Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Zografos, Athens, Greece, 4-10 August.
2013. The continued relevance of Ricoeur’s concept of time. Paper presented at the
International conference on “Ricoeur and the Future of the Humanities”, organized by the
University of Groningen, the Radbound University Nijmegen and the Young Academy. It
will be hosted by the University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, 27-29 June.
2013. Possible Aporias in Ricoeur’s concept of time. Paper presented at the International
conference on “Phenomenology and its Futures”, organised by the South African Centre
for Phenomenology. Hosted by the University of Johannesburg, in Johannesburg, South
Africa, 29-31 March.
2012. Embodies Religion’s radicalization of Immanence and the consequent question of
Transcendence. Paper presented at the European Society for Philosophy of Religion
(ESPR) conference on “Embodied Religion”. Hosted by the University of Tilburg,
Soesterberg, The Netherlands, 30 August – 2 September.
2011. Concerns about the future of Creation Order. Paper presented at the 75th anniversary year
of the Association for Reformational Philosophy’s international, interdisciplinary and
ecumenical conference on “The Future of Creation Order”. VU, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, 16-19 August.
2011. Challenges of faith in a postmodern society: an assessment of Robert Jenson’s Trinitarian
theology. Paper presented at the St Augustine College of South Africa & Catholic
Theological Society of Southern Africa’s International academic conference on “Faith in
the Face of Secularism”. St Augustine College, Johannesburg, 28 – 31 August.
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Participation in NATIONAL conferences, exhibitions, performances or performance of compositions
2015. The fragile dialectics of happiness, unhappiness and luck in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur.
Paper presented at the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa’s annual conference.
Hosted by the Nelson Mandela Metropole University, Port Elizabeth, 12-14 January.
2014. Charles Taylor’s immanent frame vs. Gilles Deleuze’s plane (life) of immanence,
Participated on invitiation to a Symposium in Stellenbosch on the project:
“Metamorphoses of Christianity”, 1 August.
2014. Sisyphus, happiness and transcendence. Paper presented at the Philosophical Society of
Southern Africa’s annual conference. Hosted by the University of the Free State,
Bloemfontein, 20-22 January.
2013. Theological responses to modernity’s and colonialism’s collusive ontology of land in the
South African context. Paper presented at the Theological Society of South Africa’s
conference on “Land, Liturgy and Life”, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 19-21
June.
2013. The relation between evil and transcendence: new possibilities? Paper presented at the
Philosophical Society of Southern Africa’s annual conference. Hosted by the University of
KZN at Salt Rock Hotel, KZN, 14 – 16 January.
2012. “Transendensie in ʼn post-metafisiese, post-transendente tyd”. Paper presented at the
Symposium of the Institute for Foundational Studies on “Transcendence and Culture”.
NWU, Potchefstroom, 17 August.
2012. Economic justice and Black theology in the South African context – towards a dialogical
mode of discourse. Paper presented at the Theological Society of South Africa’s
conference on “A distinctly South African way of doing theology? Revisiting and gathering
various strands of contextual theology”. UKZN, Pietermaritzburg, 18-22 June. (Copresented with dr. Mark Rathbone)
2012. How to do philosophy of religion; and why. Paper presented at the Philosophical Society
of Southern Africa’s annual conference. Hosted by the University of Cape Town at UCT, 16
– 18 January.
2011. Violence, liberation and the legacy of modernity: towards a theology of peace. Paper
presented at the Theological Society of South Africa’s conference on “A distinctly South
African way of doing theology? Revisiting and gathering various strands of contextual
theology”. St Augustine College, Johannesburg, 22-24 June. (Co-presented with dr. Mark
Rathbone)
2011. Timelessness, Trinity and Temporality. Paper presented at the Philosophical Society of
Southern Africa’s annual conference. Hosted by the University of KZN at Salt Rock Hotel,
KZN, 19 – 21 January.
2010. The Trinity and Ecumenism: Robert Jenson’s search for a theology of the one church of the
future. Paper presented at the Theological Society of South Africa’s conference on
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“Ecumenical movements in South Africa: Edinburgh 1910, Cottesloe 1960 and beyond”.
University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 29 Sept – 1 Oct.
2007. On Robert Jenson (1930-). Paper presented at a specialist colloquium on “The narrative of
God’s action on earth”. University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 24-26 October.
Study visits (national and international)
2014. Visiting scholar at Catholic University of Leuven from 1 September to 21 November.
2013. Contribute by invitation to an expert meeting of ACCORD (Amsterdam Centre for the
Study of Cultural and Religious Diversity) on 3 July at the Free University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, on “Anatheism”.
Participation in academic exchange programs, participate as research fellow for visiting academics,
etc. –international
November 2014: Guest lecture on invatation at research group: “Theology in a postmodern
context” at KU Leuven. Title: “Being finite: Can we be saved by happiness?”
November 2014: Guest lecture at RIPPLE (Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics) at KU
Leuven. Title: “The importance of desires for ethics”.
June 1999 – February 2000. Post-graduate exchange program between the universities of
Stellenbosch and Leuven in Belgium. I attended and completed the post-graduate courses on
Masters-level at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.
Other public appearances
 Invitation to act as respondent
 The Research Unit Education and Human Rights in Diversity held a “Speak Out” event on
“Dialogical Spaces: The pedagogy of being human”. I presented a short paper as respondent
on the expert panel that contributes papers on “Questions about tradition and power!”.
March 2014.
 Radio Broadcasting
 In October 2008 I did the “morning meditation” on “RSG” radio station. I recorded a total
of six sessions which were broadcast every morning for six days.
 Public speech
 In August 2009 at Diakonia Council of Churches in Durban on the HIV/Aids Summit that
took place in KZN during that year.
 Colloquia
At the School for Philosophy at the NWU, Potchefstroom:
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8 September 2010. Trinity and Ecumenism: Robert Jenson's search for a theology for the
one church of the future
15 June 2011. Violence, liberation and the legacy of modernity (with dr. Mark Rathbone)
20 July 2011. Concerns about the future of Creation Order
25 May 2012. How to do philosophy of religion: towards a possible speaking about the
impossible
6 Februarie 2013. The relation between evil and transcendence: some insurmountable
tensions
5 February 2014. Sisyphus, happiness and transcendence
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