Associated/Affiliated Faculty
Associated Faculty
DR. PATRICK ALLITT Professor of History, Emory University. B.A. Oxford University, M.A. , Ph.D. Berkeley and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School. His Books are: Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America: 1950-1985 (Cornell U. P., 1993); Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn To Rome
(Cornell U.P., 1997); Major Problems in American Religious History (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) and Religion in America Since 1945: A History (2003). Dr. Allitt teaches courses on American religious, intellectual, and environmental history.
DR. THOMAS FLYNN Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory University. His area of specialization is recent Continental, especially French philosophy. In addition to scores of essays, he has published Sartre and Marxist Existentialism:
The Test Case of Collective Responsibility (Chicago); Sartre, Foucault and Historical Reason, Vol. 1, Toward an Existentialist Theory of History, Vol. 2, A Poststructuralist Mapping of History (Chicago); A Very Short Introduction to Existentialism (Oxford), in addition to having edited Dialectic and Narrative with Dalia Judovitz (S.U.N.Y.) and The Ethics
of History with David Carr and Rudolph Makkreel (Northwestern). Dr. Flynn has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and recently at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory.
DR. LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON R. W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Professor Johnson's research interests encompass the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity (particularly moral discourse), Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Letters, and the Letter of James. He has authored over 20 books with his most recent being: The First and Second Letters to Timothy (2001) and Brother of Jesus: Friend of God (2004).
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Affiliated Faculty
DR. DAVID KING Assistant Professor of English and First Year Experience, Kennesaw State University. He teaches English and courses in the First Year Experience program. Among his many interests are Southern literature and culture, religion and monasticism, film, and popular music-all of which he teaches in a variety of freshman seminars. Dr. King writes poetry and fiction.
DR. KATHLEEN O'CONNOR – William Marcellus McPheeters Chair in Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary. Professor O'Connor received a Henry Luce III Fellowship to study the book of Jeremiah, drawing from interdisciplinary studies of trauma and disaster. She argues that this prophetic book is a work of hope and communal rebuilding after national catastrophe. Her previous book, Lamentations and the Tears of the World was awarded first prize by the Catholic Press Association for a book on scripture. She has written and co-edited books and articles on feminist interpretation, on the wisdom literature, and the prophets for scholarly and popular audiences. She is concerned with ways interpretation from the two-thirds world affect interpretation. Professor O'Connor is an active member of the Catholic Biblical Association, on the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature, an editor of scholarly journals and has given lectures and short courses in many parts of the world.
DR. RICHARD PARRY Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Agnes Scott College. B.A. cum laude Georgetown University, M.A. Yale, Ph.D. University of North Carolina. His published works include: Plato's Craft of Justice (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996); "The Unhappy Tyrant and the Craft of Inner Rule" in the Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic (forthcoming) and articles on ancient philosophy in Phronesis, Ancient Philosophy, The History of Philosophy Quarterly, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, Blackwell's Companion to the Philosophers, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His article "Death, Dignity, and Physician Assisted Suicide" and "The Gulf War and the Just War Doctrine" appeared in America.
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"From the moment I was
first illuminated by
the light of reason,
my inclination toward
letters has been so
vehement that not even
the admonition of
others....have been
sufficient to cause
me to forswear the
natural impulse that
God placed in me."
-Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
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