My research looks for intersections between religious thought (including theology, philosophy of religion, and ethics) and imaginative literature, especially prose fiction and drama. This work necessarily entails forays into interpretation theory or "hermeneutics" (especially that of Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Derrida). In recent years I have been trying to re-conceptualize relations of selves and their "integrity" in ethics and theology, as refracted through studies of theatrical drama. I remain interested in "tragedy" (Greek and modern) as a lens for interpreting suffering, contingency, and evil in scripture and religious thought. Future projects are likely to explore views of "ambiguity," "indeterminacy," and the like in narrative art and literary theory, with the aim of envisioning possibilities for Christian "kenotic" ethics and theological hermeneutics.