Peter Ochs
Biographic Data
| ID | 277746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Ochs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Ochs |
| SIGNATURE | OCHS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3263-326X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reparatives Denken
Welche Formen des Denkens helfen in einer Zeit der Konflikte, zerbrochene Beziehungen wiederherzustellen? Peter W. Ochs entwickelt aus den uralten Traditionen der biblischen Weisheit alt-neue Praktiken des reparativen Denkens. Indem sie sowohl die empirische Wissenschaft als auch religiös-ethische Gebote beachtet, folgt diese Argumentation gleichzeitig dem Diktat des Körpers, des Herzens und des Geistes. Der Autor untersucht drei Prototypen: Hasd…
Pragmatism and Theology
The noted Jewish scholar Harry Wolfson (d. 1929) claimed in youthful writings that the fifteenth‐century rabbinic thinker and physicist, Hasdai Crescas, was a pragmatist. This essay introduces evidence that there are, indeed, significant analogies between elements of Hasdai Crescas’s critique of Aristotle and elements of Charles Peirce’s pragmatism. The essay concludes that Crescas’s primary work, Light of the Lord ( Or Hashem ), displays a uniqu…
Read the Signs
Building on recent directions in religion-related social and political science, our essay addresses the need for location-specific and religion-specific scientific research that might contribute directly to local and regional interreligious peacemaking. Over the past 11 years, our US-Pakistani research team has conducted research of this kind. We have developed a social scientific method for diagnosing the probable near-future behavior of religio…
The Hearths of Scriptural Reasoning
See " Mark Randal James, 'Peter Ochs and the Logic of Scriptural Reasoning' "
Measuring Pragmatism by its classical tenets (the final part)
argued that there were almost as many pragmatisms as pragmatists. Almost all pragmatists criticized abstractive and reductive reasoning in the modern academy, but most entertained different visions of how and to what end academic reasoning should be repaired. Smith's vision was shaped by his strong preference for the classical pragmatisms of Peirce, Dewey, James and also Royce, whose differences contributed to the inner dynamism of Smith's pragma…
Value Predicate Analysis
This article introduces a language-based tool for addressing the role of religion in violent conflicts. Value predicate analysis (VPA) is an easily transportable, relatively uncomplicated early warning tool for measuring the probable near-future behavior of modest-sized religious groups in settings of potential conflict. We show that it is possible to identify a range of nine types of probable group behavior toward other groups. This approach sig…
Measuring Pragmatism by its Classical Tenets
argued that there were almost as many pragmatisms as pragmatists. Almost all pragmatists criticized abstractive and reductive reasoning in the modern academy, but most entertained different visions of how and to what end academic reasoning should be repaired. Smith's vision was shaped by his strong preference for the classical pragmatisms of Peirce, Dewey, James and also Royce, whose differences contributed to the inner dynamism of Smith's pragma…
Taking Rites Seriously
Winner of the AAR’s 2016 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies In a day of talk show-caliber debates on matters of utmost gravity, Francis Beckwith’s Taking Rites Seriously teaches that rationality and reasonableness are not inherently secular ... or religious. Rather, public debates about urgent ethico-religious issues may be conducted rationally and reasonably from either secular or religious premises. T…
When Peace Is Not Enough
Journal Article When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism and Justice. By Atalia Omer Get access When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism and Justice. By Atalia Omer. The University Of Chicago Press, 2013. 384 Pages. $25.00. Peter Ochs Peter Ochs University of Virginia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Re‐socializing Scholars of Religious, Theological, and Theo‐Philosophical Inquiry
The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy
Outward Signs
A complement to his Inner Grace, Outward Signs extends Cary's thesis in Augustine and the Invention of the Inner Self: that Augustine's Trinitarian and semiotic theology, groundbreaking as it was, remains beholden to a Platonist privileging of inner vs. outer and idea over sacramental performance. Outward Signs should be of special interest to readers of Modern Theology, because the inwardness Cary interrogates displays a dimension of Augustine's…
Reparative Reasoning
A genealogical study that traces a “broadly Cartesian” pattern of argumentation: from Augustine's scriptural semiotic to the “narrowly Cartesian” practice of foundationalism to Charles Peirce's pragmatic and reparative semiotic. The essay argues (1) that Augustine transformed Stoic logic into a scriptural semiotic; (2) that this semiotic breeds both Cartesian foundationalism and the pragmatic semiotic that repairs it; (3) that Peirce's semiotic d…
Philosophic Warrants for Scriptural Reasoning
Addressing readers who are already acquainted with the practices of Scriptural Reasoning (SR), this essay offers a logical strategy for warranting and testing such practices as well as all postmodern criticisms of modern inquiry. The strategy is to distinguish the logic of suffering, which is reducible to the binary terms of propositional logic, from the logic of repair, which is not. The essay argues that, if reduced to such binary terms, effort…
Reply to Segal
Journal Article Reply to Segal Get access Peter Ochs Peter Ochs University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 499–500, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfj083 Published: 19 April 2006
Reply to Segal
DEAR AAR READER, Professor Segal appears to have taken umbrage with my proposal for teaching comparative religion by way of exploring dialogues among given religions or religious groups. Between my essay and his response, we may have a very helpful illustration of the kind of interminable dispute I claimed is rife in modern religious studies and theology: that is, a dispute for which there are as yet no shared terms for dialogue. As I read him, P…
Revised
Debates about "religious studies vs. theology" may be irresolvable because they are symptoms of a crisis of a different order: the academy's still-colonialist relation to our civilization(s)' folk-or-wisdom traditions, "religious" traditions in particular. Scholars of religious studies or theology practice a kind of "colonialism writ-small" when they remove their subject matter from its lived, societal contexts and re-situate it in conceptual wor…
Comparative Religious Traditions
Journal Article Comparative Religious Traditions Get access Peter Ochs Peter Ochs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 125–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfj021 Published: 12 January 2006
Response to Armour
DEAR ELLEN ARMOUR, Thank for your essay on “Theology in modernity’s wake.” I found your words point hopefully and helpfully to ways that we can mediate some of the inherited tensions between theological and religious studies. I appreciate both how you linked these tensions to the dilemmas of modernism and how you asked us not to overstate those dilemmas—in other words, to recognize that we have to face up to how we remain modern in many ways. By …
With Reverence for the Word
A Jewish Reading of Trinity, Time and the Church
September 11 and the Children of Abraham
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 101, Number 2, Spring 2002
Systematic Theology. Vol. 2, The Works of God . Robert W. Jenson
From Phenomenology to Scripture
In examining a move from phenomenology to scripture, this symposiumdoes not address all possible readers; it addresses a specific readership, fora specific reason, and within the framework of specific assumptions. By wayof response, I want first to identify a few features of what I take to be thesymposium's specific address or context. Then, I will comment on whatmessages I believe the authors have delivered to this context
Better than Wine
Revised
Debates about "religious studies vs. theology" may be irresolvable because they are symptoms of a crisis of a different order: the academy's still-colonialist relation to our civilization(s)' folk-or-wisdom traditions, "religious" traditions in particular. Scholars of religious studies or theology practice a kind of "colonialism writ-small" when they remove their subject matter from its lived, societal contexts and re-situate it in conceptual wor…
Value Predicate Analysis
This article introduces a language-based tool for addressing the role of religion in violent conflicts. Value predicate analysis (VPA) is an easily transportable, relatively uncomplicated early warning tool for measuring the probable near-future behavior of modest-sized religious groups in settings of potential conflict. We show that it is possible to identify a range of nine types of probable group behavior toward other groups. This approach sig…
Rabbinic text process theology
If it adopted the a prlOYl principles of A.N. Whitehead and of Christian process theology, a Jewish process theology would be a Jewish variety of natural theology.Mordecai Kaplan's reconstructionism came close to this.It might even be termed a Jewish natural process theology, with a strong sense of the natural role of tradition and, thus, in this case, an openness to the cultural milieu of rabbinic tradition, as well as a commitment to the pragma…
Robert G. Goldy. The Emergence of Jewish Theology in America, Bloomington
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Theosemiotics and Pragmatism
Pragmatic Conditions for Jewish‐christian Theological Dialogue
How is Jewish-Christian theological dialogue possible today?Assuming that the possibility of dialogue is not something to be envisaged by any individual thinker a priori, I offer here a study of two examples of successful Jewish-Christian theological dialogue: George Lindbeck's dialogue with Jewish sources and Michael Wyschogrod's dialogue with Christian sources.To garner some general lessons from these examples, I try to reconstruct the general …
Continuity as vagueness
Scriptural Logic
The Israelites were groaning under the bondage and cried out; and their cry for help from the bondage rose up to God.God heard their moaning . . .and God took notice of them.(Ex.2) An angel of the Lord appeared to [Moses] in a blazing fire out of a bush. . . .And the Lord continued, " I have come down to rescue [My people] . . .Come, therefore, I will send you to Pharoah. . ..But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharoah . . .? " A…
Epilogue
The Text as Thou
Preface: The Linguistic Turn in Jewish Philosophy Part I BuberOs Hermeneutics I. Romanticism, Dilthey, and BuberOs Early Hermeneutics II. I and Thou and the Dialogical Hermeneutic Method III. BuberOs Biblical Hermeneutic Theory IV. Constructing a Buberian Hermeneutic Theory Part II BuberOs Narrative Theology V. Narrative and the Philosophy of I and Thou VI. oAutobiographical FragmentsO: Becoming Self through the Other VII. Narrative Biblical Theo…
Compassionate postmodernism
(1997). Compassionate postmodernism: An introduction to postmodern Jewish philosophy. The European Legacy: Vol. 2, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 74-79
Better than Wine
Reasoning after Revelation
Introductions * What Is Postmodern Jewish Philosophy? Initial Conversation Monologic Definitions Dialogic Practices * Commentary Toward a Dialogic Postmodern Jewish Philosophy (Yudit Kornberg Greenberg) Toward a Postmodern Judaism: A Response (Susan E. Shapiro) Listening, to Speak: A Response to Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy (Elliot R. Wolfson) Joining the Narrators: A Philosophy of Talmudic Hermeneutics (Almut Sh. Bruckstein) Trends …
From Phenomenology to Scripture
In examining a move from phenomenology to scripture, this symposiumdoes not address all possible readers; it addresses a specific readership, fora specific reason, and within the framework of specific assumptions. By wayof response, I want first to identify a few features of what I take to be thesymposium's specific address or context. Then, I will comment on whatmessages I believe the authors have delivered to this context
Systematic Theology. Vol. 2, The Works of God . Robert W. Jenson
September 11 and the Children of Abraham
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 101, Number 2, Spring 2002
A Jewish Reading of Trinity, Time and the Church
With Reverence for the Word
Philosophic Warrants for Scriptural Reasoning
Addressing readers who are already acquainted with the practices of Scriptural Reasoning (SR), this essay offers a logical strategy for warranting and testing such practices as well as all postmodern criticisms of modern inquiry. The strategy is to distinguish the logic of suffering, which is reducible to the binary terms of propositional logic, from the logic of repair, which is not. The essay argues that, if reduced to such binary terms, effort…
Reply to Segal
Journal Article Reply to Segal Get access Peter Ochs Peter Ochs University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 499–500, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfj083 Published: 19 April 2006
Reply to Segal
DEAR AAR READER, Professor Segal appears to have taken umbrage with my proposal for teaching comparative religion by way of exploring dialogues among given religions or religious groups. Between my essay and his response, we may have a very helpful illustration of the kind of interminable dispute I claimed is rife in modern religious studies and theology: that is, a dispute for which there are as yet no shared terms for dialogue. As I read him, P…
Revised
Debates about "religious studies vs. theology" may be irresolvable because they are symptoms of a crisis of a different order: the academy's still-colonialist relation to our civilization(s)' folk-or-wisdom traditions, "religious" traditions in particular. Scholars of religious studies or theology practice a kind of "colonialism writ-small" when they remove their subject matter from its lived, societal contexts and re-situate it in conceptual wor…
Comparative Religious Traditions
Journal Article Comparative Religious Traditions Get access Peter Ochs Peter Ochs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 125–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfj021 Published: 12 January 2006
Response to Armour
DEAR ELLEN ARMOUR, Thank for your essay on “Theology in modernity’s wake.” I found your words point hopefully and helpfully to ways that we can mediate some of the inherited tensions between theological and religious studies. I appreciate both how you linked these tensions to the dilemmas of modernism and how you asked us not to overstate those dilemmas—in other words, to recognize that we have to face up to how we remain modern in many ways. By …
Reparative Reasoning
A genealogical study that traces a “broadly Cartesian” pattern of argumentation: from Augustine's scriptural semiotic to the “narrowly Cartesian” practice of foundationalism to Charles Peirce's pragmatic and reparative semiotic. The essay argues (1) that Augustine transformed Stoic logic into a scriptural semiotic; (2) that this semiotic breeds both Cartesian foundationalism and the pragmatic semiotic that repairs it; (3) that Peirce's semiotic d…
Outward Signs
A complement to his Inner Grace, Outward Signs extends Cary's thesis in Augustine and the Invention of the Inner Self: that Augustine's Trinitarian and semiotic theology, groundbreaking as it was, remains beholden to a Platonist privileging of inner vs. outer and idea over sacramental performance. Outward Signs should be of special interest to readers of Modern Theology, because the inwardness Cary interrogates displays a dimension of Augustine's…
The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy
Philosophy (33 works) · Epistemology (18 works) · Theology (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (12 works) · History (12 works) · Classics (10 works) · Judaism (10 works) · Library science (10 works)