Dave de la Fuente
Biography
David de la Fuente is a doctoral candidate in systematic theology and a part-time lay pastoral associate at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City. He completed his undergraduate studies in political science and theology at Fordham University in 2010 with an honors concentration in American Catholic Studies, and a Master of Theological Studies degree at the Boston College School of Theology in 2012. Subsequently, Dave worked for four years as the patient advocate for the Institute for Head and Neck and Thyroid Cancer at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He has also served as a Campus Minister for Fordham's Retreat Ministry. Dave's dissertation project, titled A Catholic Reception of Azusa Street’s Pentecostal Fire, engages Pentecostal historiography and theology of the Azusa Street Revival of 1906 in tandem with the philosophical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and the theological hermeneutics of Willie James Jennings in order to develop an anti-racist pneumatology that crosses ecumenical borders.
Specialization
Trinitarian Theology
Fields of Interest
Religion and Racial Justice
Ecclesiology
Philosophy of Religion
Hermeneutics
Medicine and Religion
Christian Spirituality and Theological Aesthetics
Teaching Competencies
Introduction to Theology
Introduction to Religious Studies
Catholic Systematic Theology
The Bible and Social Justice
Introduction to Ecclesiology
Christology
Teaching Experience
As Instructor of Record
Faith and Critical Reason (EP Seminar I): Fall 2018
Faith and Critical Reason: Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
Christ in World Cultures: Fall 2019
Scripture and the Struggle for Racial Justice: Fall 2020, Spring 2022
Church in Controversy (EP Seminar III): Fall 2021
As Teaching Assistant
Faith and Critical Reason (EP Seminar I, Michael Lee, Ph.D.): Fall 2017
Christ in World Cultures (Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Th.D.): Spring 2018
Dissertation
"A Catholic Reception of Azusa Street’s Pentecostal Fire"
Director: Bradford Hinze, Ph.D.