Timothy Troutner
troutsky.bsky.social
Timothy Troutner
@troutsky.bsky.social
Theology prof at Assumption University
| Apophaticism, Xology, and Speculative Metaphysics | Idealism and Neoplatonism | Christian Mysticism and French Religious Thought
The Other Journal? IDK it's a bleak landscape
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I have her book Babel and given my genre interests was hoping against my doubts it would be good. We will see, but this seems like a nay vote.
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The problem is that the Enlightenment, in its abstraction, is so allergic to dependence and mediation that it cannot pass through this initial moment.
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I think that the goal of the Gospel of John is to overcome or sublate our relationship of dependence on God. Christ is a "vanishing mediator" upon whom we are initially dependent as something external but who wishes to become internal, at which point Enlightenment autonomy and independence occur.
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Always has been
October 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I'm working on some jokes about this album and second temple mysticism
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'd check W.T. Kirby and Gary Thorne.
October 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I do not. I heard there was an email but did not receive it myself (I'm an adjunct).
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
At a conference on campus, a faculty member reported an email had gone out to faculty stating that ICE was outside St. Ignatius, the church on campus.
September 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It is.
September 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
August 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM