Background
Woelfel, James Warren was born on August 16, 1937 in Galveston, Texas, United States. Son of Warren Charles and Mary Frances (Washinka) Woelfel.
(This volume approaches the dialogue between faith and dou...)
This volume approaches the dialogue between faith and doubt in the Victorian era through a series of intellectual "portraits" that express and personalize the creative ferment and diversity of the period.
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(The Existentialistist Legacy and Other Essays on Philosop...)
The Existentialistist Legacy and Other Essays on Philosophy and Religion is a collection of ten essays on topics in the two primary areas of the author's research and teaching: existentialist philosophy and the philosophy of religion. The common thread running through the essays is a way of approaching issues in philosophy and religion that reflects the author's career-long indebtedness to the methods and emphases of the existentialist movement in philosophy. Among the essay topics are studies of the existentialist legacy in the context of the contemporary situation in the sciences and humanities; Iris Murdoch's sympathetic but narrowly "Sartrian" interpretation of existentialism; the congeniality of existentialism and feminism; the problem with "high" existentialist doctrines of freedom; three philosophical autobiographies; a new look at Pascal's Wager as a description of the situation of the modern believer; theistic evolutionism including a Christian existentialism; and Walter Kaufmann as an existentialist manqué in his "heretical" approach to religion.
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philosophy and humanities educator
Woelfel, James Warren was born on August 16, 1937 in Galveston, Texas, United States. Son of Warren Charles and Mary Frances (Washinka) Woelfel.
Bachelor, University Oklahoma, 1959. Master of Divinity, Episcopal Division School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy, University St. Andrews, Scotland, 1967.
Assistant professor philosophy and religion, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1966-1970; assistant professor philosophy, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1970-1971; associate professor philosophy and religion, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1971-1975; professor philosophy and religious studies, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1975-1988; professor philosophy, U. Kansas, Lawrence, since 1988; acting department chairman religious studies, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1983-1984; director Humanities and Western civilization program, U. Kansas, Lawrence, since 1985. Manuscript reader for various presses, journals.
(The Existentialistist Legacy and Other Essays on Philosop...)
(This volume approaches the dialogue between faith and dou...)
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Member American Academy Religion, Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, Association for Core Texts and Courses, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Sarah Chappell Trulove, November 24, 1982. Children by previous marriages: Skye Caitlin, Allegra Eve, Sarah Judith. Stepchildren: Ann Marie and Paul Trulove.