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Sermon: Peace of the Intimate Universal

Paul Axton preaches: Jesus' promise of peace, not as the world gives but his peace, is the beginning of an alternative subjectivity which William Desmond calls the "intimate universal" or an opening of a communicative subjectivity with the transcendent. (Register for the course, ...  Show more

David Dawson on Girard and Postmodernism

In this final conversation with Michael Hardin, Michael's friend David Dawson, author of "Flesh Becomes Word" describes Girard's entry into the discussion of structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. (Register for the course, Metaxology, taught by William Desmond, whi ...  Show more

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