Thomas J Millay
Biographic Data
| ID | 283587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas J Millay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas J |
| FAMILY NAME | Millay |
| SIGNATURE | MILLAY T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8355-6036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Renunciation and Embrace
This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium "The Satisfactions of Asceticism" addresses gaps in the study of Christian asceticism by telling a narrative of its development from the late antique world to the present. In so doing, the article seeks to expand the range of ascetic phenomena studied, including both new time periods and new practices. The narrative is organized according to a dialectical tension between renunciation and embrace…
Life beside Bars
Inventions of a Present
Likinge
This article argues for the centrality of a neglected theme in the writings of Julian of Norwich: pleasure. To argue for the theme’s centrality, the author focuses on Julian’s Short Text, A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman. In the expanded Long Text, there are themes added unto pleasure; however, Julian’s theology of pleasure remains fundamental to the dynamic of the text. Looking at the Short Text enables us to see how the theme is established. W…
Renouncing Harvard
Fredric Jameson. Allegory and Ideology . New York
Concrete and Otherworldly
Here I argue that much of the confusion surrounding the status of material aid to the neighbor in Kierkegaard's Works of Love is cleared up once one sees the text as participating in a movement that has a fundamentally Hegelian substructure: from Moralität in Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits to Sittlichkeit in Works of Love . As might be expected, Kierkegaard takes this Hegelian structure in a very different direction than the Hegel of Ph…
In this Second Case, History
Humans are historical animals, and, when suitably prompted, they are generally aware that they live within history, amid all its myriad complications, ineradicable contingencies, and inescapable constraints. This is a fundamental claim against which it is difficult to argue
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In this Second Case, History
Humans are historical animals, and, when suitably prompted, they are generally aware that they live within history, amid all its myriad complications, ineradicable contingencies, and inescapable constraints. This is a fundamental claim against which it is difficult to argue
Concrete and Otherworldly
Here I argue that much of the confusion surrounding the status of material aid to the neighbor in Kierkegaard's Works of Love is cleared up once one sees the text as participating in a movement that has a fundamentally Hegelian substructure: from Moralität in Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits to Sittlichkeit in Works of Love . As might be expected, Kierkegaard takes this Hegelian structure in a very different direction than the Hegel of Ph…
Fredric Jameson. Allegory and Ideology . New York
Renouncing Harvard
Likinge
This article argues for the centrality of a neglected theme in the writings of Julian of Norwich: pleasure. To argue for the theme’s centrality, the author focuses on Julian’s Short Text, A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman. In the expanded Long Text, there are themes added unto pleasure; however, Julian’s theology of pleasure remains fundamental to the dynamic of the text. Looking at the Short Text enables us to see how the theme is established. W…
Renunciation and Embrace
This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium "The Satisfactions of Asceticism" addresses gaps in the study of Christian asceticism by telling a narrative of its development from the late antique world to the present. In so doing, the article seeks to expand the range of ascetic phenomena studied, including both new time periods and new practices. The narrative is organized according to a dialectical tension between renunciation and embrace…
Life beside Bars
Inventions of a Present
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