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Professor PHILIP GOODCHILD's Outputs (4)

Christian Platonism, Transvalued: Rethinking Anselm's Formula (2024)
Journal Article
Goodchild, P. (2025). Christian Platonism, Transvalued: Rethinking Anselm's Formula. The Heythrop Journal, 66(1), 38-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14384

Anselm's Proslogion developed its famous argument through meditation on a single formula: ‘Now we believe that You are something than which nothing greater can be thought’. This article aims to re-enact such a meditation under changed conditions, bri... Read More about Christian Platonism, Transvalued: Rethinking Anselm's Formula.

Transvaluation and The Practice of Metaphysics (2023)
Journal Article
Goodchild, P. (2023). Transvaluation and The Practice of Metaphysics. The Heythrop Journal, 64(3), 333-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14191

This article aims to develop transvaluation as a practice of metaphysical thinking. Jesus, Anselm, Nietzsche, and Deleuze have been selected and juxtaposed, for all their contrasts, as paradigmatic thinkers of transvaluation. Jesus offers the best pa... Read More about Transvaluation and The Practice of Metaphysics.

Limits to globalisation and the loss of faith (2019)
Journal Article
Goodchild, P. (2019). Limits to globalisation and the loss of faith. Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, 4(2), 84-100. https://doi.org/10.14220/jrat.2018.4.2.8

The contemporary rise of populism may be explained as a product of the process of globalisation against which it reacts. For globalisation rests upon a faith in the future, and limits to globalisation necessitate a change in faith. It is proposed tha... Read More about Limits to globalisation and the loss of faith.