Curriculum Vitae

I am interested in Christian systematic theology, phenomenological philosophy, and the intersection of the two.

I can be contacted via the form on the home page of this website.

Education

  • Ph.D. Theology, 2021, Fuller Theological Seminary
  • M.Div., 2016, Fuller Theological Seminary (3.92 GPA)
  • B.A. Philosophy, minor Religious Studies, 2013, Arizona State University (summa cum laude, 4.0 GPA)

Employment

  1. Instructor, North Phoenix Preparatory Academy, July 2021 – current
    • Courses taught: Greek I, Latin I-IV, Humane Letters III
  2. Adjunct Instructor, Grand Canyon University, Aug 2016 – October 2022
    • Courses taught: PHI-103, PHI-103 online, PHI-305, PHI-305 online, PHI-413
  3. Research Assistant, Fuller Theological Seminary, Sept 2018 – June 2019
    • I worked for Prof. Oliver Crisp. I looked over essays, completed indexes, fixed formatting, etc.
  4. Instructional Assistant, Grand Canyon University, Jan 2015 – Dec 2016
    • Courses assisted: CWV-101, ENG-106, PHI-103

Research

Books

  1. Hymns to Life: Michel Henry and Christian Theologians in Dialogue. Co-edited with Steven DeLay. Forthcoming with Cascade Books.
  2. Eating Christ’s Flesh: A Case for Memorialism. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2023.
  3. Trinity and Incarnation: A Post-Catholic Theology. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2023.
  4. Theological Authority in the Church: Reconsidering Traditionalism and Hierarchy. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2023.
  5. Theology of the Manifest: Christianity without Metaphysics. New York: Lexington Press/Fortress Academic, 2023.
  6. Orthodoxy and Heresy. Cambridge Elements in the Problems of God. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Journal articles

  1. “Jesus’s Confession of Ignorance and Consubstantiality.” TheoLogica 8, no. 1 (2024): 1–20. doi: 10.14428/thl.v8i1.68353
  2. “Critique of Supernatural Revelation.” Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy 6 (2023): 105–136.
  3. “How should one speak about Christ? Dyophysitism and Socinianism compared.” Toronto Journal of Theology 39, no. 2 (2023): pp. 122–130.
  4. “Self, World, and God in Michel Henry and Dumitru Stăniloae.” Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 4, no. 2 (2022): 105–132.
  5. “Can Analytic Theology be Phenomenological?” Journal of Analytic Theology 10 (2022): 210–232.
  6. “A Properly Scientific Naturalism can be Compatible with Classical Theism.” Think 21, no. 62 (2022): pp. 91–102.
  7. “Michel Henry and the Prospect of a Christian Spiritual Inactivism.” Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 15, no. 1 (2022): 92–114.
  8. “The Life-Idealism of Michel Henry.” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 29, nos. 1-2 (2021): 87–108.
  9. “Against Infallibility.” Criswell Theological Review 19, no. 1 (2021): 27–50.
  10. “Two Ways to God in Thomas Aquinas and Michel Henry.” Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 3 (2021): 164–187.
  11. “Contemporary Cosmology is Irrelevant to Classical Theistic Christian Eschatology.” Theology and Science 19, no. 4 (2021): 390–405.
  12. “Theology without Anathemas.” Journal of Analytic Theology 9 (2021): 180–200.
  13. “God Is Not Chastened: Response to Crisp vis-à-vis Theological Nonrealism.” Philosophia Christi 23, no. 1 (2021): 26–35.
  14. “A phenomenological approach to skeptical theism.” Studia UBB: Philosophia 66, no. 2 (2021): 103–126.
  15. “Praying Confidently for the Salvation of All.” Heythrop Journal 61, no. 2 (2020): 285–296.
  16. “On Reading the Bible as Scripture, Encountering the Church.” Perichoresis 18, no. 5 (2020): 67–86.
  17. “Claritas Scripturae, Theological Epistemology, and the Phenomenology of Christian faith.” Journal of Analytic Theology 7 (2019): 199–218.
  18. “The intelligibility of the cosmos and the existence of God in Dumitru Stăniloae’s Orthodox Dogmatic Theology.” International Journal of Orthodox Theology 10, no. 1 (2019): 178–190.
  19. “On aspects of a proto-phenomenology of Scripture in Origen.” Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 60, no. 4 (2018): 499–517.
  20. “On the Priority of Tradition: An Exercise in Analytic Theology.” Open Theology 3 (2017): 274–292.
  21. (with Jordan Wessling) “The Medicine which Heals the World: Praying for Salvation with Catherine of Siena .” Irish Theological Quarterly 82, no. 4 (2017): 303–321.
  22. “Christian apokatastasis: Two Paradigmatic Objections.” Journal of Analytic Theology 4 (2016): 66–86.

Book chapters

  1. “A Radical Theology of the Eucharist for Pentecostals.” Forthcoming in Analyzing the Spirit: Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology and the Analytic Tradition, edited by D. T. Everhart, Joanna Leidenhag, and Christopher Woznicki.
  2. “The Community of the Apostles and the Spiritual Nature of Christian Unity.” In Confessing the Church: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics, edited by Oliver D. Crisp and Fred Sanders (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2024).
  3. “Divine simplicity does not entail modal collapse.” In Roses and Reasons: Philosophical Essays, edited by Carlos Federico Calvet da Silveira and Alin Tat (București: Editura Eikon, 2020), 101–120.
  4. “Preludiu la o fenomenologie a Scripturii, cu referire la Origen.” In Adevărul e simfonic, ed. Alin Tat and Călin-Daniel Pațulea (Cluj-Napoca: Editura Napoca Star, 2018).

Book Reviews

  1. “Joshua Cockayne, Explorations in Analytic Ecclesiology: That They May be One.” Journal of Analytic Theology 11 (2023): 705–709.
  2. “Dietrich von Hildebrand, Ethics.” Phenomenological Reviews. Dec. 30, 2020. https://reviews.ophen.org/2020/12/30/dietrich-von-hildebrand-ethics/
  3. “Matthew Levering, Was the Reformation a Mistake? Why Catholic Doctrine is not Unbiblical.” Journal of Analytic Theology 6 (2018): 760–765.
  4. “Ilaria Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena.” Journal of Analytic Theology 3 (2015): 226–233.

Translations

  1. Richard Kearney, Anateism. Întoarcerea la Dumnezeu, după Dumnezeu [Anatheism: Returning to God after God]. Forthcoming by Editura Ratio et Revelatio.
  2. Edward Feser, “Teleologia. Un ghid pentru curioși.” In De la Aristotel la John Searle și înapoi. Patru articole filosofice, ed. Alin Tat. București: Editura Eikon, 2017.
  3. Douglas Farrow, “T.F. Torrance și erezia latină. Laudă și critică la adresa unuia dintre cei mai mari teologi ai secolului XX.” In Paradisul Regăsit, ed. Alin Tat. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Napoca Star, 2017.

Conference Presentations

  1. “The Community of the Apostles and the Spiritual Nature of Christian Unity.” Paper presented at Los Angeles Theology Conference, La Mirada, California. March 17, 2023.
  2. “Michel Henry and Dumitru Stăniloae, or God as Life and the World as God’s Body.” Paper presented at the Global Philosophy of Religion Conference: God and Other Deities, online. June 23, 2021.
  3. “The phenomenology of Scripture and the Word of God.” Paper presented at The Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience Conference “Religious Experience and Description,” Valparaiso, Indiana. October 11, 2019.
  4. “On the Trinity and three domains of consciousness.” Paper presented at Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. April 5, 2019.
  5. “The intelligibility of the cosmos and the existence of God in Dumitru Stăniloae’s Orthodox Dogmatic Theology.” Paper presented at the inaugural conference of the International Association of Orthodox Theology, Iași, Romania. January 10, 2019.
  6. “Encountering the Church in the Scriptures.” Paper presented at Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Conference, Houston, Texas. October 14, 2017.
  7. “Christian apokatastasis contra Crisp and Walls.” Paper presented at Rethinking Hell Conference 2015, Pasadena, California. June 18-20, 2015.