Advanced Research Seminar in Philosophy and Theology
Founded in 2013 by Professors Jeffrey Bloechl (艾可直播 College, philosophy) and Andrew Prevot (艾可直播 College, theology), the Advanced Research Seminar in Philosophy and Theology encourages discussion among graduate students and 艾可直播within these fields.
The seminar generally meets four times each semester, once per month, over a casual lunch. Each meeting begins with a 30-45 minutes presentation of ongoing research, followed by discussion for about 45 minutes. Most presentations are given by 艾可直播 College 艾可直播and graduate students, but an effort is made to also invite people from other universities. By the end of the fifth year of the seminar鈥檚 existence, we had met nearly fifty times and welcomed scholars from several US institutions beyond 艾可直播 College and several outside the United States.
Students enrolled in the Joint MA program in philosophy and theology are required to attend. All meetings are open to students, staff, researchers, and 艾可直播of the entire university.
Speakers and Presentations to Date
| Tom谩拧 Hal铆k Charles University, Prague | The Afternoon of Christianity |
| William Woody, SJ Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College School of Theology and Ministry | 鈥橭ut of the Depths I Call to You, Oh Lord!': Lamentation and the Ethical Demands of Forgiveness |
| Stephen Suhr 骋谤补诲耻补迟听厂迟耻诲别苍迟, Theology Department, 艾可直播 College | 'Il mio veder fu maggio che 'l parlar mostra鈥�: Expressing the Inexpressible鈥擳he Vernacular and Dante's Philosophy of Language in the Commedia |
| James Mumford Institute for Advanced Studies and Culture, University of Virginia | For Real? Contemporary Psychology, Iris Murdoch and the Status of the Good |
| Michael Marder University of the Basque Country | Resonances, or Hearing 'Ecology' Otherwise with St. Hildegard of Bingen |
| David Newheiser Australian Catholic University | A Political Theology for the Present Moment |
| Brian Robinette 艾可直播 College | Falling in Love with a Blank: Contemplation and Atheism |
| Bruce Marshall Southern Methodist University | Perplexities of Grace: Jansenism, Aquinas and Postliberal Theology |
| Andrew Barrette Research Fellow, Lonergan Center 艾可直播 College | On the Role and Meaning of Theology in Husserl鈥檚 Work |
| Christian Dupont Burns Librarian, 艾可直播 College | Receptions of Phenomenology in French Philosophy and Religious Thought |
| Tom Tatterfield Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College | Kenosis and Mixture in Gregory of Nyssa鈥檚 Christology |
| Ian Corbin Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College | Beauty, Transcendence, Kalliphobia in Postwar Art |
| Elizabeth Antus 艾可直播 College | Christian Theology and the Problem of the Impoverished Self |
| Sabine Fos Falque Practicing Psychoanalyst听 Tours, France | Psychoanalysis of the Spread Body, with Remarks on the Phenomenology and Theology of the Spread Body |
| Led by Brian Robinette and Jeffrey Bloechl, 艾可直播 College | Group Discussion of Thomas Merton Fifty Years After His Death |
| Gunda Werner Eberhard Karls Universit盲t Tu虉bingen | "Embodied Religion and Public Spaces--A Concept of Public Theology in Discussion with Judith Butler" |
| Pat Byrne 艾可直播 College | Love and Justice are One: Reflections from Bernard Lonergan |
| Mara Willard Research Fellow Boisi Center, 艾可直播 College | A Working Relationship? Hannah Arendt and Augustine |
| Tamsin Jones Trinity College, Hartford Responsible Subjects | On the Ability to Respond to Transcendence |
| James Taylor European Center for the Study of War and Peace, Zagreb | Pax Christi as Experience. A Phenomenological Intervention in the Just War / Pacificism Debate |
| Eric Severson Seattle University | Levinas and the Paradox of Apology |
| David Delio University of the Holy Cross, New Orleans | Newman鈥檚 Idea of the Church within His Idea of Education: Some Epistemological Considerations |
| Robert Elliot Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College | On the Living God. The Doctrine of God in Conversation with the New Materialisms |
| Andrew Prevot 艾可直播 College | The Immanence of Mystical Life: Michel Henry |
| Jordan Wood Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College | Creation is Incarnation: The Metaphysical Peculiarity of the Logoi in Maximus the Confessor |
| Peter Fritz College of the Holy Cross | Alethic and Apocalyptic Logics in Karl Rahner |
| Louis Caruna, SJ Gregorian University, Rome | Evolutionary Explanation and Religion |
| Emmanuel Falque Institut Catholique de Paris | Must We Cross the Rubicon? Philosophy and Theology: New Boundaries |
| Christopher McLaughlin Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College | Plato鈥檚 Reason,听Clement鈥檚 Christ: Obedience to Logos in Plato and Clement of Alexandria |
| Monachos Maximos Constas Hellenic College / Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology | Structures of Being in Dionysios the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor |
| Frederick Lawrence 艾可直播 College | Foundational Theology as Political Theology |
| Crina Gschwandtner Fordham University | On the Way of Perfection鈥擜lone of Together? Mystics and Their Communities |
| James Mumford Research Fellow, University of Virginia | Ethics at the Beginning of Life: A Phenomenological Critique |
| Won-Jai Hur Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College, | Embodiment and Theology of the Cross in Edith Stein: A Comparative and Theological Analysis in Conversation with Tibetan Lojong |
| Stephen Pope 艾可直播 College | Virtue and Human Flourishing in Light of Recent Psychology: A Theological Perspective |
| John Makransky 艾可直播 College | Confronting the Sin Out of Love for the Sinner. Fierce Compassion as a Force for Social Change |
| Hendrik Vase Frandsen Arhuis University, Copenhagen | Time 鈥� Culture- Metaphysics. The Late K.E. Logstrup |
| Derek Brown Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College | Toward a Theological-Aesthetic Critique of Suicide Bombing |
| Dan McKaughan 艾可直播 College | Action-Centered Faith, Doubt, Rationality: On the Conditions for the Epistemic and Practical Rationality of Acts of Faith |
| Emmanuel Falque Institut Catholique de Paris | Christianity and Immanence |
| Chris Hackett Australian Catholic University | Coordinates for a Philosophy of Religion |
| Joseph S. O鈥橪eary Sophia University, Tokyo | The Self and the One According to Plotinus |
| Stephanie Rumpza Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College | Jean-Luc Marion and the Icon |
| Stephen Brown 艾可直播 College | Averroes as a Model for Christian Theology |
| Group Discussion of Stanislas Breton | 鈥楾he word and the Cross鈥� I听 (led by Jeffrey Bloechl, 艾可直播 College) |
| Nancy Pineda-Madrid 艾可直播 College | The Problem of Evil from a Roycean Perspective |
| Group Discussion of Stanislas Breton | 鈥楾he word and the Cross鈥� II听 (led by Jeffrey Bloechl, 艾可直播 College) |
| Cathal Doherty 艾可直播 College | The Universal Significance of Christ鈥檚 Individual Words of Forgiveness |
| Jeffrey Hanson Australian Catholic University | Words of Faith and Pledges of Love: Abraham鈥檚 鈥楾otal Presence鈥� in His Speech |
| Sarah Thomas Graduate Student, 艾可直播 College | Cyberspatiality and Being: A Phenomenological Analysis |
| Gary Gurtler 艾可直播 College | An Argument for God鈥檚 Existence in Plotinus鈥檚 鈥楨nneads IV.5鈥� |
| Douglas Finn 艾可直播 College | Antigone, Hegel, and the Question of Tragedy in Christian Theology |
| Jeffrey Bloechl 艾可直播 College | The Principle of the World and the Word of Faith. Approaches to 1 Corinthians 7 |
| Arthur Cools University of Antwerp | Ethics and the Tragic between Levinas and Blanchot |
| Andrew Prevot 艾可直播 College | What Sort of Thinker is Jean-Louis Chretien? A Reflection on His Phenomenology of Response |
| Brian Robinette 艾可直播 College | Adventures in Mortality. A Theological Assessment of Hans Jonas鈥檚 Philosophical Biology |