Theology Department Faculty

Monographs

Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Journal articles and contributions to edited volumes 

“Biocultural Evolution, Play, and Theological Aesthetics,” Heythrop Journal (forthcoming Spring 2025)

“Restoration of Abundance: Feyerabend, Mysticism, and Science-Engaged Theology,” Theology and Science (forthcoming Fall 2024)

“Theological Anthropology After Darwin,” in Oxford Handbook of Theological Anthropology, eds. Ashley Moyse, Jens Zimmermann, Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

“Creaturely Agency in Evolution and Theology,” in God and the Book of Nature: Experiments in Theology of Science, ed. Mark Harris, Routledge Science and Religion Series (Routledge, 2023)

“Gender as Context in Science and Religion: ‘Natural’ Sexual Difference as a Case Study,” Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences 9, no. 2 (2022)

“The Evolution of Homo Ludens: Sexual Selection and a Theology of Play,” Zygon 57, no. 3 (2022)

“Unity in the Massa Peccati: Original Sin and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis,” in Emerging Voices in Science and Theology: Contributions from Young Women, eds. Alister McGrath and Bethany Sollereder, Routledge Science and Religion series (Routledge, 2022).

“Augustine and the Gendered Self in Time,” in Augustine and Time, eds. Sean Hannan, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).

“Visiting Iniquity Upon the Generations: Epigenetics, Systems Biology, and Theologies of Inherited Sin,” Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences 7, no. 2 (2020).

“Teresa of Avila on Theology and Shame,” New Blackfriars 99, no. 1081 (2018).

“A Theologian Standing with God in the World: Developments in Schillebeeckx’s Epistemology and Implications for Feminist Theology,” in Salvation in the World: The Crossroads of Public Theology, eds. Stephan van Erp, Christiane Alpers, Christopher Cimorelli (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017).

“The Rise of Fundamentalisms and the Concept of Sin,” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 105, no. 422 (2017).

“Created Sick, Commanded to Be Sound: Augustine on Original Sin After Darwin,” Tijdschrift voor Theologie 55 (2015) (online edition).                          

“Taking Her Stand Beyond All Earthly Hierarchies: Teresa of Avila, Gender Performance, and Contemplative Prayer,” The Sword: A Journal of Historical, Spiritual, and Contemporary Carmelite Issues 75 (2015).                                

Grants 

Principal Investigator: Spiritual Naturalism: Nature Spiritualities and Ecological Action among the“spiritual-but-not-religious” (2024-2027, John Templeton Foundation).

Co-principal investigator: Biocultural Evolution and Theological Anthropology (2022-2023, John Templeton Foundation).