Stephen Dunning, PhD Professor, Department of Religious Studies, School of Arts and Sciences Religious Studies Department Box 36 College Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104-6303 Phone: 215-898-5441 Fax: 215-898-6568 E-mail: sdunning@sas.upenn.edu Website: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/snd/sdunning.html

Biography

Stephen Dunning is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His current courses in Organizational Dynamics deal with religious influences on organizational attitudes in eastern and western cultures, how corporations can come to resemble cults, and the thought of Peter Drucker. He has published on continental philosophy of religion, and his most recent book deals with types of interpretation. He received his Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University.

Research

Books

• Dialectical Readings: Three Types of Interpretation. Penn State Press, University Park, 1997.
• Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Inwardness: A Structural Analysis of the Theory of Stages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
• The Tongues of Men: Hegel and Hamann on Religious Language and History. American Academy of Religion Academy Series, No. 27. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1979.

Articles

• "Paradoxes in Interpretation: Kierkegaard and Gadamer." In Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity. Edited by Martin J. Matusik and Merold Westphal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
• "Particularity Not Scandalous: Hegel's Contribution to Philosophy of Religion." In Hegel's Philosophy of Religion: Proceedings of the 1990 Meeting of the Hegel Society of America. Edited by David Kolb. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
• "Who Sets the Task? Kierkegaard on Authority." In Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community: Religion, Ethics, and Politics in Kierkegaard. Edited by C. Stephen Evans and George Connell. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1992.
• "Kierkegaard's 'Hegelian' Response to Hamann." Thought, Vol. 55, No. 218: Soren Kierkegaard Commemorative Issue (September, 1980): 259-270. Reprinted in Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religions-philosophie, Vol. 30, No. 3 (1988).
• "History and Phenomenology: Dialectical Structure in Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil." Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 76, No. 3 (1983).

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