Peter M. Candler, Jr.

Contact Information:
Department of Religion
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97144
Waco, TX 76798-7144

Office: Brooks Flats 135G

Phone: (254) 710-7282

Email:
Peter_Candler@baylor.edu

Associate Professor of Theology in the Honors College

Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy, Theology (2003) University of Cambridge
• Master of Philosophy, Theology (Two-Year Course) (1997)University of Cambridge
• Bachelor of Arts, Religion (1994)Wake Forest University

Biography:

A native of Atlanta, Georgia; married to Meredith Candler; father of two boys, Henry and Charlie.

Academic Interests and Research:

Thomas Aquinas, Medieval Theology, Thomism, Nouvelle Théologie, theology and metaphysics

Selected Research Articles:

"The Logic of Christian Humanism", Communio: International Catholic Review 36 (Spring 2009), pp. 69-91.

"The Anagogical Imagination: Illumination and the Metaphysics of Flannery O'Connor", Christianity and Literature [forthcoming]

"The Serpent of Heresy", Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture [forthcoming late 2009]

"The Alleged Thomism of Mark Jordan", a review essay of Mark D. Jordan, Rewritten Theology: Aquinas After His Readers (Oxford: Basil Blackwell 2005), American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83.1 (Winter 2009), pp. 142-52.

"‘God is Dead' and I Don't Feel So Good Myself", in Chris Keller and Andrew David, eds., ‘God is Dead' and I Don't Feel So Good Myself: Theological Engagements with the New Atheism (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2009, forthcoming).

"Frodo or Zarathustra: Beyond Nihilism in Tolkien and Nietzsche", in Stratford Caldecott and Thomas Honegger, eds. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration [Cormarë Series; 18] (Zurich and Berne: Walking Tree 2008), pp. 137-68.

"Thomas Aquinas", in Justin Holcomb, ed., Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction (New York: NYU 2006), pp. 60-80.

"Reading Immemorially: The Quaestio and the Paragraph in the Summa Theologiae" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly LXXVIII.4 (Fall 2004), pp. 531-57.

"Liturgically Trained Memory: A Reading of Summa theologiae III.83" Modern Theology XIX.3 (July 2004), pp. 423-55.

Books:

Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction, or, Reading Scripture Together on the Path to God in the Radical Traditions series, eds. Stanley Hauerwas and Peter Ochs (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans/London: SCM 2006)

*Thomism: A Very Critical Introduction (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, in progress, est. 2010).

*Nouvelle Théologie. A Reader, co-edited with Aaron Patrick Riches, for the Interventions series (in progress, est. 2010).

Belief and Metaphysics, co-edited with Conor Cunningham (London: SCM 2007).

Transcendence and Phenomenology, co-edited with Conor Cunningham (London: SCM 2007).

*The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism co-edited with Conor Cunningham (London: SCM 2009, forthcoming).

Current Ph.D. Students:

Marc Nicholas
Kalvin Budiman

Courses Taught at Baylor:

• GTX 2301 The Intellectual Tradition of the Ancient World
• GTX 2302 The Medieval Intellectual Tradition
• GTX 3320 The Middle Ages
• GTX 4320 The 18th and 19th Centuries
• REL 5351 The Theology of Thomas Aquinas