Brady DeHoust

Research Interests

My research brings resources of post-Kantian European philosophy, especially the traditions of hermeneutics, phenomenology, and existentialism, to bear on perennial questions in the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, especially those pertaining to the concept of divine revelation. My dissertation, "Toward a Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Revelation," develops the first monograph-length Gadamerian contribution to the philosophy of revelation. Specifically, it rehabilitates Gadamer's appropriations of theological concepts in order to develop a phenomenology of revelation as it might occur within the immanent conditions of language and communication. Additional research interests expand on the relationship between revelation and language, and include philosophy of testimony, the history of vernacular theology, and revelation in/as/through literature.  

• AOS: Continental European Philosophy since Kant (esp. phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism), Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Literature
• AOC: History of Philosophy (esp. Kant), Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Ethics (history, applied)
• AOC (English): Rhetorical Theory, Vernacular Theology (esp. Julian of Norwich, Martin Luther), History of English Literature (esp. long 19th century)