Courses
Being as Gift: Philosophical Foundations
This course elucidates the constitutive elements of a metaphysics of love necessary to undergird John Paul II’s nuptial anthropology. John …
Dominion and Technē
This course is essentially an exploration of the philosophical and theological meaning of work. In order to illuminate the meaning …
Philosophical Anthropology
The philosophical study of human nature is as old as philosophy itself; nevertheless, a distinct field known as “philosophical anthropology” …
Christian Metaphysics: A Reading of Ulrich’s Homo Abyssus
Ferdinand Ulrich’s philosophy is remarkable for two reasons. First, it is one of the most profound meditative inquiries into the …
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Christian Metaphysics: Divine and Human Freedom
This course will explore what it means to say that God is free and what human freedom means in relation …
Christian Metaphysics: Ferdinand Ulrich & Twentieth-Century Thomism
This course will explore the work of the speculative Thomist Ferdinand Ulrich within the context of the “rediscovery of being” …
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Phenomenology: The Roots of Catholic Phenomenology
Phenomenology has been one of the main philosophical movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and has occupied the attention …
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Philosophical Anthropology: Body, Soul, Spirit
John Paul II has called the Christian vision of the world simultaneously anthropocentric (in the positive sense!) and theocentric. One …
Philosophical Anthropology: God and the Political Order
What role does God play in the political order? This course will reflect on the “place” of God in the …
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Philosophical Anthropology: Perception and Imagination
The bodily senses, and the specifically human way of thinking that is deeply intertwined with them, have a significance in …
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Books

Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being, by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translator and editor of the English publication. (Humanum Academic Press, 2018).

Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. (Cascade Books, 2018).

Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017).

A Robert Spaemann Reader: Philosophical Essays on Nature, God, and the Human Person. Co-edited with Jeanne Heffernan Schindler. (Oxford University Press, 2015).
