Valentin Gerlier
Biographic Data
| ID | 6467122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentin Gerlier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerlier |
| SIGNATURE | GERLIER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poetics as Praise
This essay challenges the assumption that ‘theology and literature’ deals with two sealed off orders of words, the former establishing a doctrinal ground to which the latter provides merely comparative or corroborative material. It argues instead that language itself, understood as a theological phenomenon, provides the ground through which these two disciplines coincide. This phenomenon can be encountered through a doxological reading of literat…
Nature Conversing
Inspired by Willemien Otten’s recent reading of the concept of nature in John Scotus Eriugena as ‘conversation’, this essay explores some implications of this mystical/theological notion in response to the current ecological situation. For Eriugena, natura is the theophanic unfolding of the divine logos, an unfolding in which both philosophical contemplation and human creativity play vital parts. To be part of nature is an endeavour both contempl…
Recovering World-Welcoming Words
This article presents a theological–literary response to a concern in contemporary theory with heeding and articulating the speech of nonhuman things. Drawing from Rowan Williams’ metaphysics of poetic addition, I argue that an ‘ecotheological’ literary practice challenges us to become attentive and responsive to the language of the nonhuman, by creatively performing the co-mingling of nonhuman and human language. Drawing from Jean-Louis Chrétien…
How Well He's Read, To Reason Against Reading’
Journal Article 'How Well He's Read, To Reason Against Reading': Language, Eros and Education in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost Get access Valentin Gerlier Valentin Gerlier Correspondence: Valentin Gerlier, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge CB3 0BN. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 53, Issue 3, August…
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How Well He's Read, To Reason Against Reading’
Journal Article 'How Well He's Read, To Reason Against Reading': Language, Eros and Education in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost Get access Valentin Gerlier Valentin Gerlier Correspondence: Valentin Gerlier, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge CB3 0BN. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 53, Issue 3, August…
Nature Conversing
Inspired by Willemien Otten’s recent reading of the concept of nature in John Scotus Eriugena as ‘conversation’, this essay explores some implications of this mystical/theological notion in response to the current ecological situation. For Eriugena, natura is the theophanic unfolding of the divine logos, an unfolding in which both philosophical contemplation and human creativity play vital parts. To be part of nature is an endeavour both contempl…
Recovering World-Welcoming Words
This article presents a theological–literary response to a concern in contemporary theory with heeding and articulating the speech of nonhuman things. Drawing from Rowan Williams’ metaphysics of poetic addition, I argue that an ‘ecotheological’ literary practice challenges us to become attentive and responsive to the language of the nonhuman, by creatively performing the co-mingling of nonhuman and human language. Drawing from Jean-Louis Chrétien…
Poetics as Praise
This essay challenges the assumption that ‘theology and literature’ deals with two sealed off orders of words, the former establishing a doctrinal ground to which the latter provides merely comparative or corroborative material. It argues instead that language itself, understood as a theological phenomenon, provides the ground through which these two disciplines coincide. This phenomenon can be encountered through a doxological reading of literat…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)