Walter Hopp - Drifting Into Goodness

About this sermon

(We apologize for the sound difficulties. It returns to normal at 2:29) Walter Hopp (Presenter) studied philosophy at USC from 1999-2005, where Dallas Willard was his dissertation advisor. According to Walter, “No one has exercised a comparable influence on my philosophical thinking, and I would like to think of my own work as a continuation of Dallas’s own distinctive brand of realist phenomenology.” Walter is a professor of philosophy at Boston University, and in 2020 he published Phenomenology: A Contemporary Introduction, wherein he develops a realist reading of Husserl’s phenomenology in line with Dallas’s interpretation. Joe Gorra (Commentator) ideates, innovates, and educates among various types of institutional leaders and practitioners that are attuned to questions of human life and its flourishing in a pluralistic society. His research with Veritas Life Center intersects with habits of mind animated by the Bible, philosophy, theology, history, entrepreneurship, and he regularly enjoys leading communities of learners to read the Bible together out loud. Joe is a contributing author or editor for various publications, including the Journal of Spiritual Formation & Soul Care, the Journal of Markets and Morality, Philosophia Christi, and the Christian Research Journal. This is the third session of the 2023 Colloquium hosted by Westmont College to study and compare the ethical and moral writings of Dallas Willard and Dietrich von Hildebrand.