Dennis Bielfeldt
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor of Philosophical Theology and President of the Institute of Lutheran Theology |
| Location | Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States |
| Introduction | Professor of Philosophical Theology and President of the Institute of Lutheran Theology. My work engages the conditions under which theological language can bear truth in a post Kantian age. Standing at the intersection of Lutheran theology, metaphysics, and analytic philosophy of language, I argue that theology must once again speak with ontological seriousness about reality, causation, and participation. Disputationes functions as a working notebook for constructive theology. Here I develop themes in model theoretic semantics, theological realism, divine causation, and the metaphysics of participation, written toward a multi volume systematic project and related monographs. The aim is not antiquarian retrieval but disciplined confrontation with the deepest structures of modern thought, in the conviction that the grammar of theology has not been superseded but left unspoken. |
| Interests | Theological Realism, Model Theory and Semantics, Lutheran Metaphysics, Divine Causation, Theosis, Teleo-Spaces, Phenomenology, Logic and the Philosophy of Language, Theology and Science. |
| Favorite music | The great modern jazz pianists—Tatum, Peterson, Evans—where structure and improvisation meet. |
| Favorite books | The Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein), Being and Time (Heidegger), Summa Theologiae (Aquinas), De Servo Arbitrio (Luther). |