Interview: The Uniqueness and Continuing Relevance of Gabriel Marcel

Abstract

The interview of Tudor Petcu with Brendan Sweetman. Brendan Sweetman is a teacher, philosopher, and writer. From Dublin, Ireland, he is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Sullivan Chair in Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Religion and Science: An Introduction (Continuum, 2010), The Vision of Gabriel Marcel (Rodopi, 2008), Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum, 2007), Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006), Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford U.P., 1992), A Gabriel Marcel Reader (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011), and, most recently, Evolution, Chance, and God (Bloomsbury, 2015). He has published more than one hundred articles and critical reviews in a variety of journals, collections, and reference works, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, Philosophical Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Polish Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and New Catholic Encyclopedia (for which he was a Consulting Editor). He has been a Visiting Scholar and Keynote Speaker at several universities and colleges in the U.S., and, internationally, has given lectures in many countries. Dr Sweetman is the current President of the Gabriel Marcel Society, Vice-President for North America of World Conference of Catholic University Institutions of Philosophy (COMIUCAP), and the editor of Marcel Studies. His books and articles have been translated into several languages, including Portuguese and Italian.