Joseph Kimmel
Part-Time Faculty
Joseph Kimmel
Contact
Stokes Hall N318
Telephone: 617-552-8434
Email: kimmelja@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., Religious Studies, University of Chicago
- M.A., Clinical Psychology, Wheaton College
- M.Div., with focus in Comparative Theology, Harvard Divinity School
- M.A., Study of Religion, Harvard University
- Ph.D., New Testament and Early Christianity, Harvard University
Courses
- The Everlasting Covenant: The Hebrew Bible
- Inscribing the Word: The New Testament
- The Sacred Page: The Bible
Office Hours
Mondays 10am-11am and by appointment
Biography
I am a scholar of early Christianity, comparative religion, and comparative theology. Specifically, I study how early Christians understood proper names and how they invoked proper names (e.g., “Jesus”) to access otherworldly power for an array of goals: from healing to harming. Having spent years living in Tibet and studying Tibetan, I bring a comparative lens to this analysis.
Moreover, through my work, I aim to show the significance of these ancient beliefs and practices for contemporary posthumanist and neo-materialist philosophies. Outside of academia, I work as an Episcopal priest at a parish near Boston.