James Olthuis

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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | Calvin College | Calvin Theological Seminary | VU University Amsterdam}}

| thesis_title = Facts, Values, and Ethics

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| thesis_year = 1968

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| sub_discipline = Philosophical theology

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James Herman Olthuis (born 1938) is an interdisciplinary scholar in ethics, hermeneutics, philosophical theology, as well as a theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy of a kind he calls "relational psychotherapy".

Life

Olthuis studied under H. Evan Runner in philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan;{{cite book |last=Zuidervaart |first=Lambert |year=2017 |title=Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal: Essays in Reformational Philosophy |location=Montreal |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn=978-0-7735-5044-5}}{{cite web |last=Olthuis |first=James |year=2011 |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=http://www.nwu.ac.za/sites/www.nwu.ac.za/files/files/p-sphil/olthuis.doc |format=doc |publisher=North-West University |access-date=4 July 2018}} then in theology at Calvin Theological Seminary; and finally in philosophical ethics at VU University, Amsterdam, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree under {{ill|André Troost|nl}} in 1968. Olthuis analyzed and critiqued the works of G. E. Moore, his dissertation being entitled Facts, Values, and Ethics: A Confrontation with 20th Century British Moral Philosophy.

Positions held

Olthuis was a senior member at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto from 1968 to 2004 and continues to hold an emeritus position there.{{cite news |last=Overduin |first=Hendrik |date=12 August 1970 |title=The House of Subversion on Lyndhurst Ave. |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Szc_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=wlEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4116,5327962 |newspaper=The Windsor Star |location=Windsor, Ontario |access-date=22 September 2011}}

Bibliography

(1968) Facts, Values and Ethics
(1975) I Pledge You My Troth
(1986) Keeping our Troth: Staying in Love During the Five Stages of Marriage
(1987) A Hermeneutics of Ultimacy
(1997) Knowing Other-wise: Philosophy on the Threshold of Spirituality, ed.
(2000) Towards an Ethics of Community, ed.
(2002) Religion With/out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo, ed.
(2003) The Beautiful Risk: A New Psychology of Loving and Being Loved
(2005) Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, and Participation, ed. with James K.A. Smith