When neighborhoods gentrify, residents can be physically displaced as well as psychologically displaced. This psychological displacement can occur even if the resident is not physically displaced. In this article, Keith E. Starkenburg and Mackenzi Huyser explore the significant impact that neighborhood changes have on one’s attachment to place as…
Keith StarkenburgApril 15, 2018
Abstract Theological treatments of land, place, and the built environment are increasingly common. Most Christian theologies of place take their cues from the presence of the Triune God. However, a theology of place must also reckon with issues of diversity, pluralization, and tolerance, and thus…
Keith StarkenburgSeptember 2, 2015
According to John Betz, Barth’s difficulty with the analogia entis comes from “an aesthetic prejudice for the sublime against the beautiful” (John R. Betz, “Beyond the Sublime,” Modern Theology (2005), 370). David Bentley Hart, who is a close collaborator of Betz, makes similar claims in The Beauty of the…
Keith StarkenburgDecember 3, 2014
Since the publication of Richard Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Alvin Plantinga has often engaged some of Rorty’s claims about truth and justification as the offerings of a philosophical gadfly. In particular, Plantinga has summarized Rorty as saying that “truth is what our…
Keith StarkenburgApril 20, 2012
