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This is a book review of Jean-Luc Marion's Givenness and Revelation.

In this essay, I offer an existential-phenomenological consideration of what it might look like to live joyfully after losing social hope. Using the example of the widespread hopelessness that many are feeling in light of the election of Donald Trump, I suggest that the danger of losing hope is that we can also lose our selfhood in the process. In order to develop a conception of "eschatological hope" that would be resistant to the loss of such social and political expectations, I draw specifically on Søren Kierkegaard's notion that "the expectancy of faith is victory," and Jean-Louis Chrétien's idea of "the unhoped for," in order to develop a model of hope that remains when it seems like all other hope has been lost. Rather than being overcome by anxiety about the future, eschatological hope fosters joy in the present.

AbstractOften defined by affiliation with conservative politics and a limited range of moral issues concerning "family values," evangelical Christianity in the United States might seem like an odd place to look for a substantial environmental ethic. However, over the past few years many evangelicals have been working very hard to change this public face of their community and are becoming increasingly active in environmental issues. In this essay, I provide an overview of this trend by articulating the major tenants of evangelical environmentalism, outlining the major events in its history, and suggesting four primary obstacles to continued participation in this area. I contend that evangelical environmentalism is not an oxymoronic conception, but instead represents an opportunity for substantial progress as the engagement between religion and ecology becomes increasingly important to contemporary scholarly debates and public policy.

Recent discussions in the philosophy of religion, ethics, and personal political philosophy have been deeply marked by the influence of two philosophers who are often thought to be in opposition to each other, Søren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Levinas. Devoted expressly to the relationship between Levinas and Kierkegaard, this volume sets forth a more rigorous comparison and sustained engagement between them. Established and newer scholars representing varied philosophical traditions bring these two thinker

7 The Heart of Knowledge: Kierkegaard on Passion and Understanding8 From Hegel to Google: Kierkegaard and the Perils of "the System"; 9 An Ethics for Adults? Kierkegaard and the Ambiguity of Exaltation; Part III. Existence Before God; 10 Difficult Faith and Living Well; 11 Kierkegaard and the Early Church on Christian Knowledge and Its Existential Implications; 12 Thunderstruck: Divine Irony in Kierkegaard's Job; 13 Kierkegaard and Pentecostal Philosophy; Bibliography; Index

Cover -- Rorty and the Prophetic -- Rorty and the Prophetic: Jewish Engagements with a Secular Philosopher -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter Previews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Social Hope and Solidarity -- Chapter 1 -- Rorty, My Atheist Rabbi? -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Prudence in the Twenty-First Century -- Philosophy and Prudence -- Maimonides on Prudence: Four Types of Wisdom -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Charlottesville Pragmatism -- The Rabbinic Pragmatism of Peter Ochs -- Notes -- Part II: Politics and Prophecy -- Chapter 4 -- The Grounds of Prophecy -- Rorty and Religion: Hope versus Sin -- You Commanded the Prophets, "Prophesy Not": On Social Sin and Redemption -- Conclusion: And I Will Turn the Captivity -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Messianism as a Conversation-Stopper? -- Cold War Anti-Messianism -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- How to Read Rorty as a Political Theologian -- Rorty on Religion and Secularism -- Levinas's Reframing of Religion -- Notes -- Part III: Conversation and Cruelty -- Chapter 7 -- All in the Details -- Rorty's Kicks -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Two Faces of Heteronomy -- Autonomy and Liberal Irony: Rorty -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- "A Faith without Triumph" -- A Pragmatic Intervention -- Notes -- Chapter 10 -- Rabbinic Reasoning and a Rortyan Ethic -- Rorty: Ethics without Gawkiness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Heidegger's Nazism and Anti-Semitism, and Their Effect on Heidegger Scholarship -- Notes -- Index -- About the Contributors.