James Olthuis

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James H. Olthuis is an inter-disciplinary scholar in ethics, hermeneutics, philosophical theology, as well as a theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy of a kind he calls "Relational psychotherapy."

1 Life
2 Positions held
3 Bibliography
4 Works about Olthuis
5 See also

[edit] Life

Olthuis studied under H. Evan Runner in philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan; then in theology at Calvin Theological Seminary; and completed his education under André Troost, professor of philosophical ethics at the Free University in Amsterdam, where he received his PhD, his dissertation being a study of the English ethicist G. E. Moore.

[edit] Positions held

Olthuis was a senior member at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto (1968-2004).

[edit] 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 and 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