Director of the Philosophy Major and the Honors Program in the Undergraduate School
Office: Chapel 108
Phone: 217 732-3168 ext. 2383
Education
- Ph.D. in Theology, University of Nottingham
- Fulbright Grantee, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- M.A. in Religious Studies, University of Iowa
- M.A. in Contemporary Christian Theology and Philosophy, Lincoln Christian Seminary
- B.A. in Religion, Eastern New Mexico University
Appointed to Faculty: 2005
Courses
- ID201 Ancient Civilization
- ID202 From Early Church to Medieval World
- ID301 The Emerging Modern World
- ID302 The Modern and Postmodern World
- ID318/TH610/PH610 Kierkegaard
- ID320 Theology and Postmodernity
- PH301/PH701 Modern Philosophy
- PH302/PH702 Contemporary Philosophy
- PH314/PH714 Metaphysics and Epistemology
Selected Publications:
- Coeditor of the Kalos series with Cascade Press
Books
- Theologia Corporum: A Theology of Bodies. Eugene, OR: Cascade Press, 2013 (forthcoming).
- Kierkegaard and Aquinas. Cowritten with Stephen D. Cone. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013 (forthcoming)
- Deleuze and Theology. London: T&T Clark, 2012 (forthcoming).
- The William Desmond Reader. Edited by Christopher Ben Simpson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011.
- The Truth is the Way: Kierkegaard's Theologia Viatorum. London: SCM Press, 2010 and Eugene, OR: Cascade Press, 2011.
- Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern: William Desmond and John D. Caputo. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Essays
- "Founding Vision from Strange Heights: Kierkegaard on Imagination, Theology, and Metaphysics." In Becoming the Impossible: Politics, Ontology and Religion in Kierkegaard. Eds. Michael Burns and Clare Carlisle (forthcoming).
- "Interview with William Desmond." Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy and Politics 1:1 (2011).
- "Theology, Philosophy, God and the Between." Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy and Politics 1:1 (2011).
- "The Subjectivity of Truth and the Grandeur of Reason" in The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism. Eds. Peter Candler and Conor Cunningham. London: SCM Press, 2009.
- "All Things Shining: Desmond's Metaxological Metaphysics and The Thin Red Line." In System and Poetics: The Themes in the Work of William Desmond. Ed. Thomas A. F. Kelly. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
- "A Way Between Freeplay and Totality: Kierkegaard on Faith and the Other." In Søren Kierkegaard and the Word(s): Essays on Hermeneutics and Communication. Eds. Poul Houe and Gordon D. Marino Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 2003.