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The Church and Greco-Roman Mythology
We forgot the phenomenology of being-in-the-world where the gods had played.
 • Walter Emerson Adams
A fresh rediscovery of Metaphysics
Call it enchantment.
 • Walter Emerson Adams
Heidegger's "The Nothing" and God's "I AM."
I want to understand Flannery O'Connor's sense of Heidegger's contributions and limitations.
 • Walter Emerson Adams
Good Country People
Flannery O'Connor's juxtaposition of metaphysics with Heidegger's "the Nothing."
 • Walter Emerson Adams
Why Heidegger was not an existentialist
Heidegger’s concern was the phenomenology of the world around us. Sartre’s concern was the battle for existence.
 • Walter Emerson Adams
Martin Heidegger's Aletheia and Simone Weil's Attention
"Essential attention"
 • Walter Emerson Adams
Metaphysical Truth and Aletheian Truth
The "to-be-thought" and the "thingness of things"
 • Walter Emerson Adams
The metaphysics of relation
Heidegger, Edith Stein, and the mystics of the Church
 • Walter Emerson Adams
Humility is the natural result of astonishment
Simone Weil and the phenomenon of attention
 • Walter Emerson Adams
Thérèse and Heidegger on the hiddenness of Being
Crowning the year and clothing the meadows
 • Walter Emerson Adams
What was Thérèse’s relationship to Being?
To establish the project's foundation, we will ask: 'How does Thérèse stand with Being?'
 • Walter Emerson Adams
St. Thérèse and Martin Heidegger
Thérèse revealed a phenomenological spirituality of mysticism that is ordinary.
 • Walter Emerson Adams
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