Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury

Very pleased that my Jesus-seminar at Eötvös Loránd University is "back in 'real presence'" (as a colleague put it), starting today. A face-to-face conversation in a white-walled room is how it's meant to be.

Honored to see a column on The Innocence of Pontius Pilate in the pages of National Review. Their critic is unconvinced; so be it. "Judging Pontius Pilate" will run in the 7 March edition; it's online now.

Very pleased to be talking to Nick Spencer in London about The Innocence of Pontius Pilate this Tuesday, 15 February, at 12.30pm (Greenwich Mean Time). Do dial in -- https://theosthinktank.co.uk/events/2021/11/25/mixing-religion-and-politics-the-trial-of-jesus-and-the-idea-of-justice…

How is it possible that I'm only now hearing about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz? Mexican-Baroque philosopher, poet, & defender of the rights of women & the poor?

A pleasure to start my new seminar today on philosophy & the gospels at Eötvös Loránd University. "Prophets are not without honour except in their birthplace (patridi)." - Jesus in Mark 6 "Philosophers advise us to leave our own birthplaces (patridon)." - Epictetus in Diss. III

A forgotten problem: "The readers & admirers of Plato [have] dared ... to assert that our Lord Jesus Christ learned all those sayings (sententias) of his, which they are compelled to admire & praise, from the books of Plato (de Platonis libris)." - Augustine of Hippo, Doctr. Chr. II.28

I'm grateful for a new review of my Hurst & Oxford book in Escondido, California's Modern Reformation magazine. John Ehrett generously concludes: "The Innocence of Pontius Pilate is a colossal scholarly achievement ... an intensely rich and suggestive book." Continue reading here.

Glad to be revisiting two tremendous essays by the late George Steiner -- on Socrates & Jesus (& Nietzsche); & on Plato's Symposium & the Last Supper -- in preparation for a philosophy seminar on the Gospels at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

"For whom does it beat ... this enormous heart of the city that goes on pulsating, not knowing for whom?" - Kōbō Abe, The Ruined Map, 1967

Thrilled to see The Innocence of Pontius Pilate generously reviewed in The New Criterion by noted historian Thomas Madden: "Dusenbury has produced a fascinating book that moves effortlessly across seventeen centuries of intellectual history ... a real page-turner—a rarity for intellectual histories." Read here.