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C. Steven Evans , a prominent Kierkegaard scholar from Baylor University, will deliver Gonzaga University’s Rukavina History of Philosophy Lecture tomorrow, Thursday, March 1 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 110 of the Jundt Art Museum.

The title of his talk is “Kierkegaard and the Limits of Reason” and he will discuss the ways in which Kierkegaard both is and is not a fideist (one who relies exclusively in religious matters upon faith, with consequent rejection of appeals to science or philosophy). Evans also will relate Kierkegaard’s work to that of other philosophers, such as Kant and Wittgenstein, who similarly tried to determine the limits of human reason with respect to religious faith.

Evans is the author of more than 30 scholarly articles and 14 books including:

• “Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self: Collected Essays” (2006, Baylor University Press);
• “Kierkegaard’s Ethic of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Requirements” ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004);
• “Faith Beyond Reason” (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998)
• “The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith: The Incarnational Narrative as History” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).

The Rukavina Lecture Series is named for Gonzaga philosophy Professor Emeritus Thomas F. Rukavina who came to Gonzaga in 1958 as the only lay professor of philosophy and retired from teaching in 1999. For more information, please contact philosophy Assistant Professor Erik Schmidt at (509) 323-5975.