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Dr. Brent Adkins Dr. Adkins is an Associate Professor of Philosophy. His primary interests are 19th and 20th Century European philosophy, Modern Philosophy, and politics. His most recent books are Death and Desire in Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze (2007) and True Freedom: Spinoza's Practical Philosophy (2009). He is currently working on a book with Dr. Hinlicky entitled Rethinking Philosophy & Theology with Deleuze: The Pursuit of Immanence and Imminence (2013). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Kantian Review, International Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophy Today. |
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Dr. Robert Benne Dr. Benne is director of the Center for Religion and Society. He came to Roanoke from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago in 1982. He is a leading figure in Lutheran ethics and social thought. A selection of his publications illustrates his interests: The Ethic of Democratic Capitalism: A Moral Reassessment; Ordinary Saints: An Introduction to the Christian Life; The Paradoxical Vision: A Public Theology for the Twenty-first Century; Seeing is Believing: Vision of Life Through Film. He is currently working on a study of higher education in Lutheran and other Christian denominations. |
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Dr. Paul Hinlicky Dr. Hinlicky came to Roanoke College after six years of service in post-communist Slovakia as a missionary professor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, of which he is an ordained minister. His background is in classical theology and modern continental philosophy. Committed to the tradition of Lutheran confessional theology, he is interested in developing an ecumenically-oriented Christian systematic theology and ethics. He is concerned to meet varied contemporary challenges, preeminently the scientific view of the history of the cosmos, the dangers of cultural nihilism, and the disunity of the churches. |
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Dr. Marwood Larson-Harris Dr. Larson-Harris is a Teaching Associate of Religion. He teaches Buddhism, Chinese Religions, Native American Religions, and Religion and Literature. His interests are in the ways that religious ideas shape literary and artistic culture, as well as how ancient Native American traditions continue to shape modern Native experience. He is currently working on a study of the Zen Oxherding Pictures and a book on Buddhism and Film. |
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Dr. Gerald McDermott
Dr. McDermott started teaching at Roanoke College in 1989. |
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Dr. James Peterson Dr. Peterson holds the Schumann Chair of Christian Ethics and is the Director of the Center for Religion & Society. He has held two endowed chairs before Roanoke including the R.A. Hope Chair at McMaster University (Ontario) where he is still a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences. An ordained minister who has been a research fellow in molecular and clinical genetics, his most recent book, Changing Human Nature (Eerdmans 2010), examines the ethics of genetic intervention and has spurred invitations to lecture at universities from the University of British Columbia to Harvard to Oxford. Peterson is also the President of the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation and the editor of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith-the academic journal of the American Scientific Affiliation for now sixty-four years. |
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Dr. Aaron Sherwood Dr. Sherwood's research and teaching interests include Old Testament Studies, ANE Studies, Second Temple Judaism, New Testament Studies, Gospel and Life of Jesus Studies, Pauline Studies, and Pauline Theology |
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Dr. Monica Vilhauer Dr. Vilhauer is Associate Professor of Philosophy. Her primary interests are in ethics, social-political philosophy, feminist philosophy, ancient philosophy, and 19th and 20th Century European philosophy. She is the author of the book Gadamer's Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the Other (Lexington Books, 2010), and she is currently working on a new book project on Plato and desire. |
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Dr. Hans Zorn
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