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George Connell

George Connell

Professor of Philosophy

Concordia College

George Connell is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia College in Fargo, North Dakota, where he has taught for over 30 years. His main area of research and publication is Kierkegaard, and he is currently the president of the Søren Kierkegaard Society.

Published Articles

Article

In the Beginning of the Reformation Was the Word

George Connell

No. 46 · Fall 2017

Drawing on a Concordia faculty pilgrimage to German Luther sites, Connell appropriates John’s prologue to frame the Reformation as a movement about words — the printed page, the university classroom, the Marburg confession, the Wartburg translation, Bach’s music, and the dining-room conversations of Table Talk — while soberly noting that words can wound as well as heal.
Book Review

The Religious Genealogy of College: Interrogating the Ambivalence of Delbanco's College

George Connell

No. 39 · Spring 2014

Connell reads Andrew Delbanco’s College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be alongside Concordia’s Vision Statement for the Humanities and Martha Nussbaum’s Not for Profit, tracing Delbanco’s ambivalent engagement with the religious origins of American college. He asks whether Delbanco’s “college idea” can survive cut off from the religious rootstock that nourished it, and proposes that church-related colleges may serve best not as a “usable past” but as a “usable present.”

George Connell

Published Articles

In the Beginning of the Reformation Was the Word

The Religious Genealogy of College: Interrogating the Ambivalence of Delbanco's College