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Dennis Bielfeldt

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion

316 Scobey Hall
South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota
Phone: 605-692-3240; Fax: 605-688-6754;

E-mail: Dennis_Bielfeldt@sdstate.edu

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Teaching Areas

History of Western Religious Thought
Philosophy of Religion
Logic
Religion and Science

Research Areas

Religion and Science
Luther and the Reformation
Philosophy of Religion

Education

· Ph. D. University of Iowa

· M.A. University of Iowa

· B.S. South Dakota State University

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Science and Religion

"Downward Causality: How Does the Mental Matter?" Center for Theology and Natural Science Bulletin, 19:4 (Fall 1999), pp. 11-21.
"Can Christianity Avoid Substance Dualism?" Zygon: The Journal of Science and Religion, 36:1 (March 2001), pp. 153-178.
"The Promise and Peril of Supervenience for Theology," pp. 117-152 in The Concept of the Person in Science and Religion. Studies in Science and Theology: The European Yearbook of Science and Theology, Edinburgh: T & T Clarke, 2000.
"Nancey Murphy's Nonreductive Physicalism," Zygon: The Journal of Science and Religion, 34:4 (December 1999), pp. 619-28.
"Supervenience as a Strategy for Relating Physical and Theological Properties," pp. 161-76 in The Interplay between Scientific and Theological Worldviews I. Studies in Science and Theology (Labor et Fides, 1999).
"God, Physicalism, and Supervenience," Center for Theology and Natural Science Bulletin, 15:3 (Summer 1995), pp.1-12.

Luther Studies

"Luther and Language," Lutheran Quarterly, 16:2 (Summer 2002), pp. 195-220.
"Luther and The Strange Language of Theology: How New is the Nova Lingua?", in a Festschrift (Concordia Publishing House, 2002).
"Luther and Ontology: A Response to Juntunen," pp. 161-66 in Union with Christ: The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther, Carl Braaten and Robert Jenson, eds. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 1998).
"The Ontology of Deification," pp. 90-113 in Caritas Dei. Beiträge zum Verständnis Luthers und der gegenwärtigen Ökumene: Festschrift für Tuomo Mannermaa. (Helsinki: Luther-Agricola Gesellschaft, 1997). [Abridgement included in Lutheran Digest, Vol. 8, Kenneth Hagen, ed. (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Lutheran Academy, 2000), pp. 160-167.]
"Deification as a Motif in Luther's Dictata super Psalterium," Sixteenth Century Journal, 28:2 (Summer 1997), pp. 401-420. [Abridgement included in Lutheran Digest, Vol. 8, Kenneth Hagen, ed. (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Lutheran Academy, 2000), pp. 24-28.]
"Freedom, Love, and Righteousness in Luther's Sermo de duplici iustitia," pp. 19-34 in Freiheit als Liebe bei Martin Luther, D. Bielfeldt & K. Schwarzwäller, Eds. (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang GmbH, 1995). [Abridgment included in Lutheran Digest, Vol. 4, Kenneth Hagen, Ed. (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Luther Academy, 1996), pp.18-19.
"Luther, Metaphor, and Theological Language," Modern Theology, 6:2 (January 1990), pp. 21-135. [Abridgement included in Luther Digest Vol.1, Kenneth Hagen, Ed. (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Luther Academy, 1993), 21-24.].

Other Select Articles

"Divine Action and Ethical Decision-Making," Covalence 3, First Quarter (2001), pp. 1-9.
"Impediments to the Cultivation of the Grundtvigian Spirit in the North American Context," pp. 147-165 in Enlightenment in an International Perspective, Lillian Zollner & Anna Marie Andersen, Eds. (Vejle, Denmark: Nornesalen and Kroghs Forlag Ltd., 1995). Also published in Bridge: Journal of the Danish American Heritage Society, 18:1 (1995), 9-31. Abridgements appeared in Church and Life, 44:2 (February 1995), pp. 3-6, and Option: Journal of the Folk Education Association of America, 19:2 (Winter 1996), pp. 23-27.].
"Two Perspectives on Tillich's Ontology of Religious Symbols," Newsletter of the North American Paul Tillich Society, 21:4 (October 1995), pp. 2-7.
"A God by Any Other Name," Lutheran Forum, 27:1 (February 1993), pp.7-10.
"What's Real?--A Dialogue," Teaching Philosophy, 12:3 September 1989), pp. 235-241.

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