This collection contains scholarship and creative works from members of faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ohio Northern University. Content may include journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings or papers, poster sessions, essays, and other materials.
Works from 2024
Aristotle on Artificial Products, Errol G. Katayama
Works from 2022
Mask-Less Shopping Is Like Drunk Driving, Jonathan Spelman
Mike DeWine, Mask Mandates, and the Value of Moral Philosophy, Jonathan Spelman
Works from 2020
Review of "Aristotle’s Science of Matter and Motion", by Christopher Byrne, Errol G. Katayama
Against Eating Humanely-Raised Meat: Revisiting Fred’s Basement, Jonathan Spelman
Works from 2019
The Ethics of Choice in Single-Player Video Games, Erica L. Neely
Works from 2018
The Aesthetic Roots of Environmental Amnesia: The Work of Art and the Imagination of Place, Forrest Clingerman
Aristotle’s Physics II 1 and Cultivated Plants, Errol G. Katayama
Augmented Reality, Augmented Ethics: Who Has the Right to Augment a Particular Physical Space?, Erica L. Neely
Works from 2017
Violence and Vengeance, Mimesis and Murder, Conflict and Cross: A Critical-Constructive Engagement with René Girard, Darrin W.S. Belousek
A Note on TA EΣΧATA EIΔΗ at 644a23 in Aristotle’s Part. An. 1.4, Errol G. Katayama
No Player is Ideal: Why Video Game Designers Cannot Ethically Ignore Players’ Real-World Identities, Erica L. Neely
Review of "Ignorance and Moral Obligation", by Michael J. Zimmerman, Jonathan Spelman
Works from 2016
God, Evil, and (Non-)Violence: Creation Theology, Creativity Theology, and Christian Ethics, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Place and the Hermeneutics of the Anthropocene, Forrest Clingerman
Theologies of the Climate, Forrest Clingerman
Time’s Arrow and Narrative of Climate Engineering, Forrest Clingerman
Aaugh! Why Is Being Moral So Hard?, Patrick Croskery
Heideggerian Reflections on Three Mennonite Cookbooks and a Mennonite Farm in Northwest Ohio, Mark H. Dixon and Raymond F. Person Jr.
The Risks of Revolution: Ethical Dilemmas in 3D Printing from a US Perspective, Erica L. Neely
Biblical Historiography as Traditional History, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Character in Narrative Depictions of Composing Oral Epics and Reading Historiographies, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Education and Transmission of Tradition, Raymond F. Person Jr.
From Conversation to Oral Tradition: A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions, Raymond F. Person Jr.
From Grammar in Everyday Conversation to Special Grammar in Oral Traditions: A Case Study of Ring Composition, Raymond F. Person Jr.
The Problem of ‘Literary Unity’ from the Perspective of the Study of Oral Traditions, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Works from 2015
Continuing the Conversation: Rejoinder to Respondents from the Morling Conference on Atonement Theology, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Review of "The Crucified King: Atonement and Kingdom in Biblical and Systematic Theology", by Jeremy R. Treat, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Science, Values, and Power: Toward a Christian-Critical Perspective on Responsible Science, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Natural or Political Public Space? Spaces of Interpretation, Environmentalism, and the Sacred Depth, Forrest Clingerman
Redeeming the Climate: Investigating a Theological Model of Geoengineering, Forrest Clingerman
Review of Janet Donohoe, Remembering Places: A Phenomenological Study of the Relationship between Memory and Place, Forrest Clingerman
Theologians as Interpreters—Not Prophets—In a Changing Climate, Forrest Clingerman
The Place of Narrative and Tradition in the Interpretation of the Text of Nature, Forrest Clingerman
Moral Sensitivity as Integrated Attunement, Patrick Croskery and Mark H. Dixon
Text Criticism as a Lens for Understanding the Transmission of Ancient Texts in Their Oral Environments, Raymond F. Person Jr.
The Story of David and Goliath from the Perspective of the Study of Oral Traditions, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Works from 2014
God and Nonviolence: Creedal Theology and Christian Ethics, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Good News: The Advent of Salvation in the Gospel of Luke, Darrin W.S. Belousek
O Sweet Exchange! The Cross of Christ in the Drama of Reconciliation, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Professional Baseball and Performance-Enhancing Drugs: A Virtue Ethics Perspective, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Review of "Instead of Atonement: The Bible's Salvation Story and Our Search for Wholeness", by Ted Grimsrud, Darrin W.S. Belousek
The Road That I Must Walk: A Disciple’s Journey, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Geoengineering, Theology, and the Meaning of Being Human, Forrest Clingerman
Pedagogy as a Field Guide to the Ecology of the Classroom, Forrest Clingerman
Review of Paul G. Harris, What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It, and Clive Hamilton, Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering, Forrest Clingerman
The Care of the Reaper Man: Death, the Auditors, and the Importance of Individuality, Erica L. Neely
Deuteronomy and Environmental Amnesia, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Works from 2013
Entrusting Ourselves to the One Who Judges Justly: Proclaiming the Cross in a World of Insecurity, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Health Care, Natural Law, and the American Commons: Locke and Libertarianism, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Review of "Killing Enmity: Violence and the New Testament", by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Butterflies Dwell Betwixt and Between: Non-Human Animals, Theology, and Dwelling in Place, Forrest Clingerman
Homecoming and the Half-Remembered: Environmental Amnesia, the Uncanny and the Path Home, Forrest Clingerman
Imagination and Fallibility: Ian McEwan’s Solar and Framing Climate Change for Theological Reflection, Forrest Clingerman
Memory, Imagination, and the Hermeneutics of Place, Forrest Clingerman
Review of Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Guide to the Process, and How to Develop a Project from Start to Finish, Forrest Clingerman
Review of Idea-Based Learning: A Course Design Process to Promote Conceptual Understanding, Forrest Clingerman
The Ecological Pilgrimage of Self and Community, Forrest Clingerman
Working within the Frame, Breaking Outside the Borders: Intersections in the Theological Experience of Art and Place, Forrest Clingerman
Machines and the Moral Community, Erica L. Neely
Orality Studies, Oral Tradition: Hebrew Bible, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Prophets in the Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles, Raymond F. Person Jr.
‘Your Wives, Your Children, and Your Livestock’: Domesticated Beings as Religious Objects in the Book of Deuteronomy, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Works from 2012
Between Babel and Pelagius: Religion, Theology and Geoengineering, Forrest Clingerman
Review of Mark I. Wallace’s Green Christianity, Forrest Clingerman
Review of The Natural City: Re-envisioning the Built Environment, edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper, Forrest Clingerman
Review of "Aristotle on Time: A Study of the Physics", Errol G. Katayama
Two Concepts of Community, Erica L. Neely
Conversation Analysis, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Works from 2011
Atonement, Justice, and Peace: The Message of the Cross and the Mission of the Church, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Nonviolent God: Critical Analysis of a Contemporary Argument, Darrin W.S. Belousek
Environmental Amnesia or the Memory of Place? The Need for Local Ethics of Memory in a Philosophical Theology of Place, Forrest Clingerman
From Artwork to Place: Finding the Voices of Moreelse, Bacon and Beuys at the Hermeneutical Intersection of Culture and Nature, Forrest Clingerman
Review of Collaborative Working in Higher Education, Forrest Clingerman
Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics, Mark H. Dixon and Forrest Clingerman
David Charles and Aristotle’s Master Craftsmen, Errol G. Katayama
Soul and Elemental Motion in Aristotle’s Physics VIII 4, Errol G. Katayama
Works from 2010
Review Essay: Roger Gottlieb’s A Greener Faith and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, Forrest Clingerman
Wilderness as the Place between Philosophy and Theology: Questioning Martin Drenthen on the Otherness of Nature, Forrest Clingerman
Environmental Virtue Ethics: Core Concepts and Values, Mark H. Dixon
Review of "Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools", edited by Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch, Mark H. Dixon
Identity (Re)formation as the Historical Circumstances Required, Raymond F. Person Jr.
The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles: Scribal Works in an Oral World, Raymond F. Person Jr.
The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles: Scribal Works in an Oral World, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Works from 2009
Interpreting Heaven and Earth: The Theological Construction of Nature, Place, and the Built Environment, Forrest Clingerman
Reading the Book of Nature: A Hermeneutical Account of Nature for Philosophical Theology, Forrest Clingerman
Review of Laurel C. Schneider’s Beyond Monotheism: A Theology of Multiplicity, Forrest Clingerman
Seeking the Depth of Nature in a Scientific World, Forrest Clingerman
Walking into the Frame: A Theological Exploration of Pilgrimage along Anton Mauve’s A Dutch Road, Forrest Clingerman
The Architecture of Solitude, Mark H. Dixon
Works from 2008
Tell Me a Story of Jesus: Teaching as Storytelling and Four Recent Short Histories of Christianity, Forrest Clingerman
The Intimate Distance of Herons: Theological Travels Through Nature, Place, and Migration, Forrest Clingerman
Substantial Unity and Living Things in Aristotle, Errol G. Katayama
Historical Reconstruction and Theological Construction in Tension in the Work of J. Denny Weaver, Raymond F. Person Jr.
The Role of Non-Human Characters in Jonah, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Works from 2007
Pigs Training Dogs to Exploit Sheep: Animals as a Beast Fable Dystopia, Patrick Croskery
Introduction: The Importance of Empirical Models to Assess the Efficacy of Source and Redaction Criticism, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Linguistic Difference Emphasized; Linguistic Difference Denied, Raymond F. Person Jr.
Works from 2006
Monty Python and the Search for the Meaning of Life, Patrick Croskery
The Deuteronomic History and the Books of Chronicles: Contemporary Competing Historiographies, Raymond F. Person Jr.