Jack Louis Pappas

A photo of Jack Louis Pappas, a doctoral graduate of the systematic theology track in the Theology Department at Fordham University

 

Education

B.A.Philosophy - College of the Holy Cross, 2013  

M.A. Philosophy - Boston College, 2014

M.T.S. Historical Theology - Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, 2017

Ph.D. Systematic Theology - Fordham University, 2024

Biography

Jack is systematic theologian with primary research interests at the intersection of fundamental theology, continental philosophy of religion, and theological metaphysics. His dissertation focuses on the theological reception of Martin Heidegger in the thought of Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar and its influence on recent French phenomenologists such as Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste and Emmanuel Falque. Jack is also interested in patristics, theological and philosophical hermeneutics and the influence of personalist philosophy on modern Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic theology. 

Jack’s accomplishments include the following.

Academic

  • “Traversals: Maurice Blondel & Erich Przywara at the Intersection of Phenomenology, Revelation and Theological Metaphysics,” Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift (Forthcoming)
  • “Sergei Bulgakov’s Fragile Absolute: Kenosis, Difference, and Positive Disassociation,” Building the House of Wisdom: Sergei Bulgakov and Contemporary Theology, ed. Barbara Hallensleben, Regula M. Zwahlen, Aristotle Papanikolaou, and Pantelis Katalaitzidis (Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2024), pp. 107-122.
  • “Rahner’s Embodied Subject: Carnal Phenomenology and Rethinking Humanism ‘Otherwise,’” The Human in a Dehumanizing World: Reexamining Theological Anthropology and Its Implications, College Theology Society Annual Volume 67, ed. Jessica Coblentz and Daniel Horan OFM (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis), 60-71.
  • “Between the Flesh and the Lived Body: Henry and Falque on the Phenomenology of Incarnation,” Journal for the Continental Philosophy of Religion (2020) vol. 2: 73-90.

Awards

  • Summer Research Fellowship, Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University, 2018
  • Member of Phi Kappa Phi, 2020-
  • Awarded Senior Teaching Fellowship, Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2021-2022
  • Research Fellowship, Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2022-2023

Dissertation

“Through Phenomenology to Theology: Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the French Theological Turn”

Director: Aristotle Papanikolaou