Papers by Philip Knight
This paper contributes to the debate about what Etty Hillesum meant by the word 'God'. It focuses... more This paper contributes to the debate about what Etty Hillesum meant by the word 'God'. It focuses on two of five areas of investigation that might be thought relevant to the address of this question: Hillesum's own direct and indirect definitions of God. It is the suggestion of this paper that Hillesum adopted the idea of a God within. In dialogue with this God she seeks to transform her hate-filled, suffering world by re-imagining it poetically within her spacious inner life through the optic of beauty, joy and happiness. Doing this enables her to transform her outer-world within, and to act in her outer world through love and care thereby assisting the mending of its hate and the suffering this hate caused. Her God is the insistence of this love, the source of her inner transformative work and the inner spaciousness that she feels growing miraculously within her.
This paper is a revised version of a talk given to East Kent Humanists on October 18th 2020. It ... more This paper is a revised version of a talk given to East Kent Humanists on October 18th 2020. It considers three ways in which humanism finds expression in the life and work of Etty Hillesum.
This talk was delivered to the East Kent Carmelite Spirituality Group on September 14 2019. It i... more This talk was delivered to the East Kent Carmelite Spirituality Group on September 14 2019. It is the first of five talks on Etty Hillesum: Body, Hands, Feet and Eyes.
Multi-Faith Britian, 2002
Although written some time ago, this article, which first appeared in David A. Hart (ed.) Multi-F... more Although written some time ago, this article, which first appeared in David A. Hart (ed.) Multi-Faith Britain: An Experiment in Worship (Alresford: Books 2002) pp. 87-96, may be considered to have some relevance to the current debate on religious education and worldviews.
This is a revised version of a paper delivered on 12th November 2018 at the University of Kent in... more This is a revised version of a paper delivered on 12th November 2018 at the University of Kent in Canterbury as part of their chaplaincy's inter-faith week.
This paper was delivered at the Canterbury Cathedral Theology Seminar on June 12th 2018. It pres... more This paper was delivered at the Canterbury Cathedral Theology Seminar on June 12th 2018. It presents an account of Etty Hillesum's refusal to hate, her willingness to love and an interpretation of her understanding of God.
Presupposing a representational epistemology religious critical realism affirms the inadequacy of... more Presupposing a representational epistemology religious critical realism affirms the inadequacy of religious language to convey God. Rejecting the idea that language operates as a representational medium this paper suggests that religious language of God should be judged adequate or inadequate relative to purpose rather than to some supposed ineffable reality.
This article compares John Dewey's understanding of God with Sea of Faith Religious Non-realism.
Time and Tide: Sae of Faith Beyond the Millennium (2000) pp. 87-97
Faith and the impossible God
A brief summary introduction to Etty Hillesum
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This paper, which discusses the relationship between faith and belief, was delivered to the Cante... more This paper, which discusses the relationship between faith and belief, was delivered to the Canterbury Cathedral Theology Seminar on 20th February 2024.
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