Calvin D. Ullrich

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Calvin D. Ullrich (1990), PhD (Systematic Theology, Stellenbosch University) Currently Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Theology, in the Department of Historical and Constructive Theology, University of the Free State.

Former Research Fellow (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) at the Ecumenical Institute, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Germany.

Academic interests in Continental Philosophy of Religion, Political Theology, Phenomenology, Embodied Cognition, and Affect Theory.

Other affiliations:
Research Associate, Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Current Research:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) / German Research Foundation funded project (2021–2024): "A Critical Phenomenology of Christian Bodily Affect"
Supervisors: Robert Vosloo and Rebekka Klein

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Book Reviews by Calvin D. Ullrich

Book Review: The Christian God: Collected Essays

ACTA Theologica, 2025

Shutte, A. (Ed. Patrick Giddy), (Johannesburg: UJ University Press, 2024), ISBN 1923206370 "The ... more Shutte, A. (Ed. Patrick Giddy), (Johannesburg: UJ University Press, 2024), ISBN 1923206370 "The Christian God" is a self-reflective and philosophically astute collection of theological essays by the late South African Catholic philosopher-theologian Augustine Shutte (1938-2016). Curated with a short preface by Patrick Giddy, the volume gathers writings that span the breadth of Shutte’s intellectual career, offering both an autobiographical narrative of sorts – outlined by the author himself in an opening chapter – as well as a sustained engagement with the Christian tradition in dialogue with contemporary philosophical and cultural concerns.

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Book Review: This Monastic Moment, by John de Gruchy

Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2022

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A Caputian Reading of David Newheiser’s "Hope in a Secular Age"

Crossing: The INPR Journal, Nostri Libri, 2020

It is surely no overstatement that if in recent times we have ever needed a counter-narrative, wh... more It is surely no overstatement that if in recent times we have ever needed a counter-narrative, what one might call a ‘politics of hope’, now is that time. This is what David Newheiser has given us in his prescient new book, Hope In A Secular Age (2019). Newheiser enjoins us that despite all the disappointment and uncertainty, we must persist; neither blindly into idealist utopias which resist ambiguity, nor into cynicisms which thwart concrete improvements. Hope as the solution to these false choices has that character of resilience which “enables desire to endure without denying vulnerability”.

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The State of Secularism: Religion, Tradition and Democracy in South Africa

South African Journal on Human Rights, 2019

The preamble of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 begins with a declaration,... more The preamble of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 begins with a declaration, ‘We, the people of South Africa’ and concludes with a prayer, ‘Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika’ (God bless Africa).These incipits are neither ornamental nor convenient drapery for a country’s founding legal document. Rather, they are visible evidence of a deep contestation inherent to post-apartheid South Africa with respect to law and religion. On the one hand, the opening makes clear that the traditional sovereign has been divested and dispersed into the ‘will of the people’, but on the other, it appears that the sovereign remains; ‘his’ protection and favour are invoked. To ask then ‘how did we get here?', at once eliding the traditional while at the same time seemingly re-affirming it, is to ask a series of timely questions, such as: what is ‘the state of secularism’ in South Africa? What kind of secularism does the country have? Given its historical saturation in religious politics and dependence on religion's institutions, how is it possible for a new post-apartheid state to find itself without [this] authority?

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