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{{Infobox academic | name = James Olthuis | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = James Herman Olthuis | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1938}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | nationality = | residence = | known_for = | spouse = | children = | awards = <!--notable national level awards only--> | website = | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | Calvin College | Calvin Theological Seminary | VU University Amsterdam}} | thesis_title = Facts, Values, and Ethics | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1968 | school_tradition = Postmodernism<ref name="Olson 2013, p. 688">{{cite book |last=Olson |first=Roger E. |author-link=Roger E. Olson |year=2013 |title=The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction |location=Downers Grove, Illinois |publisher=InterVarsity Press |page=688 |isbn=978-0-8308-6484-3}}</ref> | doctoral_advisor = {{ill|André Troost|nl}} | academic_advisors = | influences = H. Evan Runner | era = | discipline = {{hlist | Theology | philosophy}} | sub_discipline = Philosophical theology | workplaces = {{nowrap|Institute for Christian Studies}} | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = James K.&nbsp;A. Smith<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=James K.&nbsp;A. |author-link=James K. A. Smith |year=2005 |title=Jacques Derrida: Live Theory |location=London |publisher=Continuum |page=xiii |isbn=978-0-8264-6280-0}}</ref> | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = }} [[File:A Vision of and for Love.pdf|thumb|A vision of and for love: Towards a Christian post-postmodern worldview (article developed from a paper delivered at the Koers-75 Conference on 'Worldview and Education', held in Potchefstroom, South Africa, from 30 May to 2 June 2011)]] '''James Herman Olthuis''' (born 1938)<ref name="Olson 2013, p. 688"/> is an interdisciplinary scholar in ethics, hermeneutics, philosophical theology, as well as a theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy of a kind he calls "relational psychotherapy".

==Life== Olthuis studied under H. Evan Runner in philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan;<ref name="Zuidervaart 2017">{{cite book |last=Zuidervaart |first=Lambert |year=2017 |title=Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal: Essays in Reformational Philosophy |location=Montreal |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn=978-0-7735-5044-5}}</ref><ref name="CV">{{cite web |last=Olthuis |first=James |year=2011 |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=http://www.nwu.ac.za/sites/www.nwu.ac.za/files/files/p-sphil/olthuis.doc |format=doc |publisher=North-West University |access-date=4 July 2018 |archive-date=5 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705063426/http://www.nwu.ac.za/sites/www.nwu.ac.za/files/files/p-sphil/olthuis.doc |url-status=dead }}</ref> then in theology at Calvin Theological Seminary;<ref name="CV"/> and finally in philosophical ethics at VU University, Amsterdam, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree under {{ill|André Troost|nl}} in 1968. Olthuis analyzed and critiqued the works of G.&nbsp;E. Moore, his dissertation being entitled ''Facts, Values, and Ethics: A Confrontation with 20th Century British Moral Philosophy''.

==Positions held== Olthuis was a senior member at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto from 1968 to 2004 and continues to hold an emeritus position there.<ref>{{cite news |last=Overduin |first=Hendrik |date=12 August 1970 |title=The House of Subversion on Lyndhurst Ave. |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Szc_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=wlEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4116,5327962 |newspaper=The Windsor Star |location=Windsor, Ontario |access-date=22 September 2011}}</ref>

==Bibliography== *(1968) ''Facts, Values and Ethics'' *(1975) ''I Pledge You My Troth'' *(1986) ''Keeping our Troth: Staying in Love During the Five Stages of Marriage'' *(1987) ''A Hermeneutics of Ultimacy'' *(1997) ''Knowing Other-wise: Philosophy on the Threshold of Spirituality'', ed. *(2000) ''Towards an Ethics of Community'', ed. *(2002) ''Religion With/out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo'', ed. *(2003) ''The Beautiful Risk: A New Psychology of Loving and Being Loved'' *(2005) ''Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, and Participation'', ed. with James K.A. Smith

==Works about Olthuis== *(2006) ''The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith''

==See also== * Deconstruction * List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction * Postmodern theology * Radical orthodoxy * Christian psychology

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