Ono Ekeh is a fifth generation android with a Ph.D. in Theology, whose initial programing has exceeded its original boundaries resulting in a self-conscious, fully functional, quasi-human life form. He is married to a wonderful human woman and has two amazing kids. Die hard Buffalo Bills fan, PhD in Theology, interested in politics, science fiction, writing, food, and other things.
What are “Collapsing Temporal Plates?”
Nothing. Just a reflection of my view of history. The future has already occurred and is crashing into the present. However, the unpredictability of the crashing of temporal plates destroys the set order of things thereby necessitating a new and undefined future.
Current Interests
My current interest are dabbling at the intersection of philosophy and theology, i.e., status and grounds of faith, nature of religious knowledge etc. I have a couple of articles I would love for you to read (see main page) and cite early and often (smile).
It is my belief that when the Buffalo Bills win a Super Bowl, I may have to utter my “Nunc Dimittis.”
Dissertation: Ono Ekeh, A Phenomenological Theology of the Trinity: A Study in John Henry Newman and Edmund Husserl. Catholic University of America, 2009.
Articles Published:
Ono Ekeh, “The Phenomenological Context and Transcendentalism of John Henry Newman and Edmund Husserl,” Newman Studies Journal 5/1 (Spring 2008) 35-50.
This article explores the transcendentalism of John Henry Newman. Transcendentalism is a hard concept to explain, but it is what it sounds like–a view point or perspective that is not circumscribed or bound by the immediately perceptible.
Newman finds himself in the same school of Victorian transcendentalism which produced the renowed 19th century scientists, Ronald Knox and Charles Darwin. It is a view of an interconnected world in which the particular can logically imply something about the universal or general. So, for instance, you can see how this would encourage Darwin to not limit his analysis to the immediately perceptible, but be able to logically extrapolate and induce a general theory of evolution.
The article focuses more on Newman and his expression of this transcendental principle. In this article I hint at what I developed more fully in my dissertation, which is Newman’s philosophical affinity with Edmund Husserl.
Ono Ekeh, “John Henry Newman and the Mystery of the Trinity,” Irish Theological Quarterly 74/2 (May 2009) 202-223.
This article focuses on Newman’s trinitarian thought. Not much has been done on this so there is a lot more to investigate. The key thing here is Newman’s bias towards Greek trinitarianism. There is an emphasis on the Father, as ho theos, God himself, God.
More importantly, Newman adopts Philo’s use of ousia, not as “being,” as will become the norm in Christianity, but as “person.” So in Newman, there is no talk of a divine nature, the commonality of the Trinity is the actual person of God the Father.
We also see in Newman’s thought, a substantive concreteness of the trinitariam persons. So the fuzzy, ephemeral Augustinian personhood of the Holy Spirit, that has pervaded western Theology is absent here. Newman has a very, very, concrete sense of the person of the Holy Spirit.
