Education
Th.D., Harvard Divinity School, 2009
M.Div., Harvard Divinity School, 2002
B.A., Southwestern University, 1996
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, University of St. Thomas
Postdoctoral Research Associate to the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, 2010–2011
Selected Publications
“Rechtfertigung als Theosis: Zur neueren Diskussion über die Lutherdeutung der Finnischen Schule” [Justification as Theosis: Recent Discussions of the Finnish School of Luther Interpretation], Catholica (Münster) 66 (2012): 1-18
“Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar,” in Paul Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley, eds., The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 257-274
“Origen of Alexandria,” in Paul Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley, eds., The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 20-35
“Karl Barth and Personalist Philosophy: A Critical Appropriation,” Scottish Journal of Theology 64 (2011): 45-63
Selected Presentations
“Reassessing Origen’s ‘Doctrine of the Spiritual Senses.’” Paper presented at Patristic Seminar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, May 2011
“The Significance of the Spiritual Senses for Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, November 2008
“Karl Barth and Personalist Philosophy: A Critical Appropriation.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Karl Barth Society of North America, San Diego, November 2007
“‘Spiritual Senses,’ Natural, and Supernatural in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, November 2005
Professional Societies
American Academy of Religion
Catholic Theological Society of America
Society for the Study of Theology
North American Patristics Society
Karl Barth Society of North America