Donald Wallenfang
Donald Lee Wallenfang, Emmanuel Mary of the Cross, OCDS (born 24 February 1978) is an American Roman Catholic theologian who specializes in phenomenology, hermeneutics, metaphysics and Carmelite spirituality. He is a former student of Jean-Luc Marion and has been influenced by the work of Marion, Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein.[1] He is a member of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites, the reform Order of Saint Teresa of Jesus. In the wake of the twentieth-century movement known as Nouvelle Théologie, Wallenfang has employed the dual methodology of of metaphysics and phenomenology within the field of theology, building on this methodological innovation as initiated by Edith Stein, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Erich Przywara, Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and John Paul II.[2][3] He originated the renewed concept of dialectical theology and notions such as the logic of the double negative, the trilectic of testimony, the trilectical reduction in phenomenology, and the logic of the cross. His work is concerned with reopening dialogue between the natural sciences and theology.[4][5][6]
Biography[edit]
Early years[edit]
Wallenfang entered the field of youth ministry in the Roman Catholic Church and served in three parishes over the years 2001-2010. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a PhD in Constructive Theology. His early work at the intersection of pastoral ministry and theology, as well as his attention to the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz, has influenced the field of practical theology.[7][8][9][10][11][12]
Career[edit]
Wallenfang became a theology professor at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio, in 2011. He has advanced studies on the work of the Jewish Carmelite mystic and martyr, Edith Stein,[13][14][15][16] especially by turning attention to her development of the concept of empathy.[17][18][19][20][21]
Wallenfang has pioneered the application of phenomenology within the field of comparative theology[22] [23] and describes his idea of revised dialectical theology as "not the dialectical materialism of Marx and Engels, not the dialectical idealism of Hegel, not the dialectical crisis theology of Barth, but certainly in some way related to all of the above...It offers a script in which the so-called losers are the true prophets and paragons of authentic personhood...The uncanny prevents the closure of the dialectic. The dance between dialectical poles is sustained to the extent that the uncanny continues to reemerge on the scene, to speak and to manifest itself...dialectical logic is the logic of paradox."[24][5][6]
Publications[edit]
- John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang, eds., Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization, Vol. 1: Pope Francis and the Event of Encounter (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018).
- Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist: An Étude in Phenomenology, with a Foreword by Jean-Luc Marion (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017).
- Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein, with a Foreword by John C. Cavadini (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017).
References[edit]
- ↑ Diller, Jeanine and Asa Kasher, eds. (2013). Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities. New York: Springer. pp. 767–73.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Gschwandtner, Christina (2014). Degrees of Givenness: On Saturation in Jean-Luc Marion. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 249n36. Search this book on
- ↑ Becker, Brian W., John Panteleimon Manoussakis, and David M. Goodman, eds. (2018). Unconscious Incarnations: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives on the Body. New York: Routledge. pp. xi.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ "Donald Wallenfang, Associate Professor of Theology". Walsh University. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Marion, Jean-Luc (2017). "Foreword" in Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist: An Étude in Phenomenology. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. pp. xvii–xxiii. ISBN 978-1498293419. Search this book on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cavadini, John (2017). "Foreword" in Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. pp. ix–xv. ISBN 978-1498293365. Search this book on
- ↑ Komboh, Donald Tyoapine (2016). Healing Social Violence: Practical Theology and the Dialogue of Life for Taraba State, Nigeria. Miami Gardens, FL: St. Thomas University Press. pp. 34, 85–87, 94, 177. Search this book on
- ↑ Wardley, Kenneth Jason (2016). Praying to a French God: The Theology of Jean-Yves Lacoste. New York: Routledge. p. 222. Search this book on
- ↑ Cathey, Alexandra Richards (April 2016). "Edith Stein and Woman's Emotional Formation". Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ↑ Nguyen, Peter (March 2018). "Homilies for March 2018". Homiletic and Pastoral Review. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ↑ Knapp, Amy L. (9 April 2017). "Faithful Mark Holy Week". IndeOnline. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ↑ Woods, Brady (9 December 2017). "There Is Power in Blood: Towards a Eucharistic Interpretation of Ivan Ilyich's Paradoxical Death and Life". Jameson Award Winners: Humanities and Theological Studies. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ↑ Muthukumar, David (2017). "Review of Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein" (PDF). The Evangelical Review of Theology and Politics. 5: BR25–28.
- ↑ Kim, Sang-il (September 2017). "Review of Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein". Reading Religion.
- ↑ Madigan, Patrick (2018). "Review of Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein". The Heythrop Journal. 29:2 (2): 343. doi:10.1111/heyj.12871.
- ↑ Betschart, Christof (2018). "Review of Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein" (PDF). Teresianum. 69: 271–74.
- ↑ Lovestone, Lauren R. (2017). Empathy, Person and Community: The Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press. pp. 112, 117–18. Search this book on
- ↑ Calcagno, Antonio, ed. (2016). Edith Stein: Women, Social-Political Philosophy, Theology, Metaphysics and Public History: New Approaches and Applications. New York: Springer. pp. 5, 7–8.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Jordan, Michael C. (2014). "Preface". Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture. 17:3 (4): 5–16. doi:10.1353/log.2014.0035.
- ↑ Jordan, Michael C. (2012). "Preface". Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture. 15:4 (4): 5–16. doi:10.1353/log.2012.0030.
- ↑ Lebech, Mette and John Haydn Gurmin, eds. (2015). Intersubjectivity, Humanity, Being: Edith Stein's Phenomenology and Christian Philosophy. New York: Peter Lang. p. 3.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Seltzer, David (2015). "Introduction". Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture. 50:2: 64–66.
- ↑ Almeida, Rathan (2016). Uniqueness and Universality of Jesus Christ Re-visited: An Encounter of Walter Cardinal Kasper's Spirit Christology with the Indian Theology in the Light of Ecclesia in Asia: An Attempt to Focus on and Deepen the Specificity of Jesus Christ in the Context of Religious Pluralism in India. Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna. pp. iii. Search this book on
- ↑ Wallenfang, Donald (2017). Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist: An Étude in Phenomenology. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books. pp. xxvi, xxviii. ISBN 978-1498293396. Search this book on
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