James A. Herrick
James A. Herrick (PhD University of Wisconsin–Madison, MA University of California–Davis) was for twenty years the Guy Vander Jagt Professor of Communication at Hope College in Holland, MI, where he taught from 1984 to 2020. Mr. Herrick is the author of several books, including The Making of the New
Spirituality (IVP 2003), Scientific Mythologies (IVP 2009), The History and Theory of Rhetoric (Routledge 2020), Visions of Technological Transcendence (Parlor 2017), and Argumentation (Strata 2021). Herrick writes and speaks about religious themes in popular culture, new religious movements, popular narratives about technology, and public discourse.
Links to posts and programs featuring James A. Herrick:
- The plausibility of “post-human” aspirations — FROM VOL. 140 James Herrick discusses the “post-human” aspirations of the transhumanist movement, and how its plausibility is established by stories. (28 minutes)
- Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 93 — FEATURED GUESTS: Alan Jacobs, James A. Herrick, Robert C. Roberts, J. Daryl Charles, Allan C. Carlson, and Sheila O’Connor-Ambrose
- Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 63 — FEATURED GUESTS: Charles M. Sennott, Nicholas Orme, J. Budziszewski, Albert Borgmann, James A. Herrick, Darrell Cole, and Jackson Lears
- Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 140 — FEATURED GUESTS:
Matthew Rubery, James A. Herrick, Jack Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro, Timothy Gloege, David Hollinger, and Barrett Fisher
