James Olthuis Explained

James Olthuis
Birth Name:	James Herman Olthuis
Thesis Title:	Facts, Values, and Ethics
Thesis Year:	1968
School Tradition:	Postmodernism^[1]
Influences:	H. Evan Runner
Sub Discipline:	Philosophical theology
Notable Students:	James K. A. Smith^[2]

James Herman Olthuis (born 1938)^[1] is an interdisciplinary scholar in ethics, hermeneutics, philosophical theology, as well as a theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy of a kind he calls "relational psychotherapy".

Life

Olthuis studied under H. Evan Runner in philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan;^[3] ^[4] then in theology at Calvin Theological Seminary;^[4] and finally in philosophical ethics at VU University, Amsterdam, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree under in 1968. Olthuis analyzed and critiqued the works of G. E. Moore, his dissertation being entitled Facts, Values, and Ethics: A Confrontation with 20th Century British Moral Philosophy.

Positions held

Olthuis was a senior member at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto from 1968 to 2004 and continues to hold an emeritus position there.^[5]

Bibliography

(1968) Facts, Values and Ethics
(1975) I Pledge You My Troth
(1986) Keeping our Troth: Staying in Love During the Five Stages of Marriage
(1987) A Hermeneutics of Ultimacy
(1997) Knowing Other-wise: Philosophy on the Threshold of Spirituality, ed.
(2000) Towards an Ethics of Community, ed.
(2002) Religion With/out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo, ed.
(2003) The Beautiful Risk: A New Psychology of Loving and Being Loved
(2005) Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, and Participation, ed. with James K.A. Smith

Works about Olthuis

(2006) The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith

Notes and References

Book: Olson, Roger E. . Roger E. Olson . 2013 . The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction . Downers Grove, Illinois . InterVarsity Press . 688 . 978-0-8308-6484-3.
Book: Smith, James K. A. . James K. A. Smith . 2005 . Jacques Derrida: Live Theory . London . Continuum . xiii . 978-0-8264-6280-0.
Book: Zuidervaart, Lambert . 2017 . Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal: Essays in Reformational Philosophy . Montreal . McGill-Queen's University Press . 978-0-7735-5044-5.
Web site: Olthuis . James . 2011 . Curriculum Vitae . doc . North-West University . 4 July 2018.
News: Overduin . Hendrik . 12 August 1970 . The House of Subversion on Lyndhurst Ave. . The Windsor Star . Windsor, Ontario . 22 September 2011.