James Olthuis

James H. Olthuis is an inter-disciplinary 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; then in theology at Calvin Theological Seminary; and completed his education under André Troost, professor of philosophical ethics at the Free University in Amsterdam, where he received his PhD, his dissertation being a study of the English ethicist G. E. Moore.

Positions held

Olthuis was a senior member at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto (1968-2004).

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 and 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

*(2004) "The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith"

ee also

*deconstruction
*deconstruction-and-religion
*postmodern Christianity
*radical orthodoxy
*weak theology