Jean-Pierre Fortin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1607893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Pierre Fortin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Fortin |
| SIGNATURE | FORTIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St. Michael’s College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Redeeming Memory
This article channels the voices of leading Indigenous scholars Thomas King, Lee Maracle and Terry LeBlanc to retrieve the untold past and demystify the present so as to pave the way for a reconciled future. The colonial narrative of civilization undergirding settler Christian identity and way of life must be challenged by Indigenous stories of trauma, survival and struggle for liberation. King, Maracle and LeBlanc enjoin settler Canadians and Ch…
Theology Giving Back
This essay lays foundations for a postmodern theology of donation by supplementing Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of the gift with Marcel Hénaff’s analysis of ceremonial gift exchange, John Milbank’s theology of reciprocal exchange and Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Trinitarian kenotic theology. Derrida’s philosophy of the gift provides normative criteria for the experience of transcendence within human conscious awareness. Hénaff and Milbank nuance and …
Theology Giving Back
Theology Giving Back
Circles of Conversation
Scriptural Spirituality as Postmodern Theology
Embracing David Tracy’s prophetic and christocentric vision for postmodern theology, this article argues that Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s evolving interpretation of the Psalms forms a paradigmatic example of postmodern Christian spirituality and discipleship. From the 1935 lecture on Christ in the Psalms, through Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible, to the unfinished exposition of Psalm 119, Dietrich Bonhoeffer came to find in the Psalter a privi…
Lament of a Wounded Priest
Acknowledging the complex redaction history which produced the Book of Job contained in the Jewish and Christian canonical scriptures, this article offers a spiritual interpretation of the text taking due account of its overall structure and major parts (prologue, main dialogical body and epilogue). With its focus on the formation of personal identity, spiritual theology grants access to a developmental understanding of the biblical narrative and…
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Scriptural Spirituality as Postmodern Theology
Embracing David Tracy’s prophetic and christocentric vision for postmodern theology, this article argues that Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s evolving interpretation of the Psalms forms a paradigmatic example of postmodern Christian spirituality and discipleship. From the 1935 lecture on Christ in the Psalms, through Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible, to the unfinished exposition of Psalm 119, Dietrich Bonhoeffer came to find in the Psalter a privi…
Lament of a Wounded Priest
Acknowledging the complex redaction history which produced the Book of Job contained in the Jewish and Christian canonical scriptures, this article offers a spiritual interpretation of the text taking due account of its overall structure and major parts (prologue, main dialogical body and epilogue). With its focus on the formation of personal identity, spiritual theology grants access to a developmental understanding of the biblical narrative and…
Theology Giving Back
Theology Giving Back
Circles of Conversation
Theology Giving Back
This essay lays foundations for a postmodern theology of donation by supplementing Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of the gift with Marcel Hénaff’s analysis of ceremonial gift exchange, John Milbank’s theology of reciprocal exchange and Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Trinitarian kenotic theology. Derrida’s philosophy of the gift provides normative criteria for the experience of transcendence within human conscious awareness. Hénaff and Milbank nuance and …
Redeeming Memory
This article channels the voices of leading Indigenous scholars Thomas King, Lee Maracle and Terry LeBlanc to retrieve the untold past and demystify the present so as to pave the way for a reconciled future. The colonial narrative of civilization undergirding settler Christian identity and way of life must be challenged by Indigenous stories of trauma, survival and struggle for liberation. King, Maracle and LeBlanc enjoin settler Canadians and Ch…
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