John Steichen grew up in Charleston, SC. He moved to Boston in 2011 to attend Boston College, where he received both his his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy. After completing his masters in 2017, he spent two years teaching middle school and high school theology at Catholic Memorial School in West Roxbury, MA. In 2019 he returned to Boston College to begin his Ph.D. in systematic theology. His interests include systematic and fundamental theology, Lonergan studies, transcendental Thomism, mimetic theory, contemplative theology, and phenomenology. His dissertation, “Looking for Salvation in a Secular Age: Fundamental Theology and the Absence of God,” explores the complementary contributions of transcendental Thomism and mimetic theory to fundamental theology in a secular age.