Craig Phillips

Lecturer in Theology: St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH.
     “Biblical Theology,” Fall 2023 (2 classes).

Lecturer in the Humanities: St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH.
     “Conversatio,” Fall 2022.

Adjunct Instructor: Virginia Theological Seminary
     "The Finality of Christ," Spring 2010 (6-week term)

Guest Lecturer: St. Nicholas Theological Seminary, Cape Coast, Ghana (February 2009).

Professorial Lecturer: Theology Department, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
     “The Problem of God,” Fall 2008

Adjunct Instructor: The Evening School of Theology, Virginia Theological Seminary
     “The Worship of the Church,” Spring 2006 and Spring 2008.
     “The Church in Contemporary American Culture,” Spring 2004.

Instructor: Rosemont College Accelerated Degree Program, Fall 1998-Spring 2002.
     “World Religious Traditions: Western,” Spring 1999 and Spring 2000.
     “World Religious Traditions: Eastern,” Fall 1998, Spring 2001 and 2002.
     “Philosophy of Straight Thinking,” Fall 1998.

Assistant Professor: Temple University, Fall 1994-Fall 1997 (non-tenure track)
   Undergraduate Religion Courses:
     “Death and Dying,” Spring 1997.
     “Introduction to World Religions,” Summer 1996 (2 classes).
     “What is Christianity,” Spring 1997, Summer and Fall 1995.
     “Religion in Western Society,” [Judaism, Christianity, and Islam], Summers of 1995 and 1996.
   Graduate Religion Courses:
     “Theories of Colonialism and Postcolonialism,” Graduate Seminar, Spring 1996.
     “Proseminar in Religion and the Social Sciences,” Graduate Seminar, Spring and Fall 1995.
     “Proseminar in Christianity,” Graduate Seminar, Spring 1995.
     “Genealogies of Critical Theory,” Graduate Seminar, Fall 1994.
   Undergraduate Core Curriculum:
     “Intellectual Heritage 51,” 1996-7 (5 classes), 1995-6 (3 classes)
     “Intellectual Heritage 52,” 1994-1995 (3 classes).

Instructor: Trinity College, Duke University
     “Christianity,” Spring 1994.

Visiting Lecturer: The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
     “Introduction to Religion and Culture,” Fall 1993.
     “Introduction to Philosophical Approaches to Religion,” Spring 1993.

Instructor: Trinity College, Duke University
     Seminar on “Death and Dying,” Fall 1989.
     “Introduction to Christian Theology and Ethics,” Spring 1989.

Teaching Assistant: Duke Divinity School
     “Early and Medieval Church History,” Fall 1991.
     “Theology and the Practice of Preaching,” Spring 1991.

Teaching Assistant: Trinity College, Duke University
     “Christians in Crisis,” Spring 1991.
     “Religion in Western Society," Fall 1988.
​​​​​​​     “Faith and Politics," Spring 1988.

“Immigration, Immunity, Community, and the Church: Roberto Esposito’s Biopolitical Immunitary Paradigm,” in Decolonial Horizons: Reimagining Theology, Ecumenism, and Sacramental Praxis, ed. Raimundo Barreto and Vladimir Latinovic (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44839-3_3

“Freedom from the Law: From Luther to Agamben,” in Gerard Mannion, Dennis Doyle, and Theodore Dedon (eds.), Ecumenical Perspectives Five Centuries after Luther's Reformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), 67-82.

“The Refugee as “Limit-Concept” in the Modern Nation-State,” in Darren J. Dias, Jaroslav Z. Skira, Michael S. Attridge, and Gerard Mannion (eds.), “The Church, Migration and Global (In)Difference? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 185-199.

“Giorgio Agamben’s Stasis (Civil War): An Illuminating Paradigm for Ecumenical Studies?,” in Vladimir Latinovic and Anastacia Wooden (eds.), Stolen Churches or Bridges to Orthodoxy, Volume II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 35-51.

Palm Sunday Meditation in Living Well Through Lent 2021: Listening with all your Heart, Soul, Strength, and Mind (Living Compass, 2021), 59-60.

“To Live according to the Form of the Holy Gospel”: Francis of Assisi’s Embodied Challenge to the Institutional Church,” in Mark D. Chapman and Vladimir Latinovic, eds., Changing the Church: Transformations of Christian Belief, Practice and Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 251-257.

"Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment in Recent Anglican-Roman Catholic Ecumenical Dialogue,” Ecumenical Trends 49, No. 3 (2020), 19-23.

“The Reign of God and the Church: Giorgio Agamben’s Messianic Critique of the Church,” in Mark Chapman (ed.), Hope in the Ecumenical Future. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017), 63-81.

“Cultural-Linguistic Resources for Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Dialogue,” in Vladimir Latinovic, Gerard Mannion and Peter Phan (eds.), Pathways for Inter-Religious Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), 15-27.

“Theo-political visions: Post-secular Politics and Messianic Discourse,” Ecclesiology 10 (2014), 337-354.

“Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)” in Ian Markham (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Theologians (Wiley Blackwell, 2009), 66-83. This chapter was later published in Ian Markham (ed.), The Student’s Companion to the Theologians, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

“Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55)” in Ian Markham (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Theologians (Wiley Blackwell, 2009), 89-96. This chapter was later published in Ian Markham (ed.), The Student’s Companion to the Theologians, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

“Postmodernism” in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 4 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005).

“Language” in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 3 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003).

“Literary Criticism,” in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 3 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003).

“Fundamental Theology” (co-author), in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 2 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000).

“Hermeneutics” (co-author) in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 2 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000).

“Interpretation,” in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 2 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000).

“On Anglican Theology and Comprehensiveness,” The Episcopalian, The Professional Pages, September 1985.

“Harvey Cox Examines Religion Today,” in Interim, The Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, May 1985, Vol. 6. No. 4.

Review of Harvey Cox, Turning East in Interim, The Episcopal Diocese of Missouri (Bibliographic information unknown).

Future Speaker: “Strategic Remembrance and Forgetting: Navigating Memory and Amnesty on the Path toward Reconciliation and Justice, “Reconciliation and Social Justice,” 2024 World Annual Conference of the International Association for Reconciliation Studies (IARS), July 1-5, Assisi, Italy.

“Immigration, Immunity, Community, and the Church: Roberto Esposito’s Biopolitical Immunitary Paradigm,” San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 22-26, 2022.

Session Chair: “Decolonizing Churches,” San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 22-26, 2022.

“Giorgio Agamben’s Stasis (Civil War): An Illuminating Paradigm for Ecumenical Studies?”, Stuttgart, Germany, July 19-22, 2019.

Session Chair:“Stolen Churches or Bridges to Orthodoxy: Impulses for Theological Dialogue between Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches,” Stuttgart, German, July 19-22, 2019.

“The Refugee as “Limit-Concept” in the Modern Nation-State,” “The Church and Migration: Global (In)Difference?”, Toronto, Canada, June 25-27, 2018.

“Freedom from the Law: From Luther to Agamben,” “Reformation and Global Reconciliation,” Jena, Germany, May 28-June 2, 2017.

“The Relationship between Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment in Recent Anglican-Roman Catholic Ecumenical Dialogue,” “Vatican II: Remembering the Future: Ecumenical, Interfaith, and Secular Perspectives on the Council’s Impact and Promise,” Washington, DC, May 21-24, 2015.

"Experience, Truth, and Community: A Political Reading of the Early Aesthetics of Walter Benjamin,” 8th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome. Rome, Italy, May 7-9, 2015.

Session Chair: 8th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome. Rome, Italy, May 7-9, 2015.

“The Reign of God and the Church: Giorgio Agamben’s Messianic Critique of the Church,” “Hope in the Ecumenical Future,” Oxford, UK, April 9-11, 2014.

Session Chair: “Hope in the Ecumenical Future,” Oxford, UK, April 9-11, 2014.

“Theo-political visions: Post-secular Politics and Messianic Discourse,” “Religion, Authority, and the State: From Constantine to the Secular and Beyond,” Belgrade, Serbia, June 19-22, 2013.

“Cultural-Linguistic Resources for Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Dialogue,” "Where We Dwell in Common: Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century," Assisi, Italy, April 17- 20, 2012.

"Resurrection and Social Change," The Mid-Atlantic and New England-Maritimes Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, March 2010. (New Brunswick, NJ).

“Theological Nostalgia and Aesthetic Judgment: The Theological Aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar,” The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 2000 (Nashville).

“Missions to the ‘Nestorians’: Colonialist Discourses in the Contact Zone,” The History of Christianity Section, The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1997 (San Francisco).

Conference Respondent:"What Counts as ‘Theory’ in Postcolonial and Ideological Criticisms of the Bible?," The Annual National Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, November 1997 (San Francisco).

Session Chair, “Postcolonial Interventions in the Comparative Philosophy of Religion,” The

Philosophy of Religion Group, The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1996 (New Orleans).

Session Chair, “Where Has Religion Come from? Nineteenth Century Evolutionary Theories of Religion,” History of the Study of Religion Group, The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1995 (Philadelphia).

Conference Respondent: “American Pragmatism and Continental Postmodernism,” Philosophy of Religion Section, The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1995 (Philadelphia).

“Ordering the Space of Others: Colonialism and the Origins of the Study of Religion.” Departmental Lecture, Department of Religion, Temple University, March 22, 1995.

“Organizing the Space of Others: Colonialism and the Origins of the Study of Religion.” The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1994 (Chicago).

Session Chair, “Questions of Theory,” The History of Christianity Section, The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1994 (Chicago).

“Periodizing the Postmodern within the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1993 (Washington, D.C.).

"The Apostate Messiah, the Wizened Dwarf, and Walter Benjamin: Jewish Antinomian Messianism and Marxist Eschatology.” “Benjamin for the Jetztzeit: 1892-1992,” Duke University, February 1992.

"Redeeming the Heart of a Heartless World: Critical Social Theory, Aesthetics, and Theological Discourse." The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1991 (Kansas City).

"The Commodity as Fetish: Walter Benjamin and the Fetishes of 19th Century Paris." The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1991 (Kansas City).

"Imagining a Post-Structuralist Christology: Reading, Representation, Rhetoric, and Power." The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1990 (New Orleans).

"Negative Aesthetic, Negative Theology, Negative Utopia: Walter Benjamin and Romantic Anti-Capitalism." The British Sociological Association, Theory and Religion Study Group, The University of Bristol, England, January 1990.

"Metaphysics of the Fragment: Walter Benjamin's Materialist Recasting of Metaphysical Discourse." The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1989 (Anaheim).

"Perichoresis and Chorismos between Theory and Praxis: A Consideration of Clodovis Boff's Theology and Praxis." The Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 1988 (Chicago).

See a listing of my recent peer reviews on publons.com:
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“From Aesthetics to Redemptive Politics: A Political Reading of the Theological Aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Materialist Aesthetics of Walter Benjamin.”

Dissertation Advisor: Kenneth Surin.

Committee Members: Fredric Jameson, Stanley Hauerwas, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Frederic Herzog.

Roman Catholic and Protestant Systematic Theology, World Religions, History of Christianity, New Testament, Hebrew Bible, Philosophical and Theological Ethics; Philosophy of Religion; Core Humanities Curriculum, Late Ancient Christianity, Contemporary philosophy and literary theory Western Philosophy, Religion and Cultural Studies; Anthropology and Sociology of Religion; Colonial and Postcolonial Theory; Critical social theory; 19th Century German theology and philosophy; Aesthetics and hermeneutics.

“Workshop for Young Teachers,” sponsored by the Society for Values in Higher Education, Emory University, August 1994 (Funded by a grant from the Luce Foundation).

The American Academy of Religion, 1986 to present.

The Society of Biblical Literature, 1986 to present.

Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network, 2010 to present.

Fellowship: Short Term Resident at the Collegeville Institute, Collegeville, MN, February 19-March 11, 2016.

Visiting Scholar: The American Academy in Rome, April 20–May 11, 2015.

2008 National Clergy Renewal Program, The Lilly Endowment ($44, 856 grant to fund sabbatical in Ghana, UK, Greece, and Turkey, from February 4 to June 17, 2009).

Pastor-Theologian Program: The Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ (Funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment), 2001-2004.

American Association of Colleges Junior Teaching Fellow: Duke/ Guilford College Program (Funded by a grant from the Luce Foundation), 1991-92.

“Benjamin for the Jetztzeit: 1892-1992,” Duke University, February 21-23, 1992.

Rector: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Arlington, Virginia, October 22, 2002 to September 30, 2021.

Dean: Region 3, Diocese of Virginia, January 2005- January 2009.

Rector: Incarnation Holy Sacrament Episcopal Church, Drexel Hill, PA, October 1997- October, 2002.

Dean: Conestoga Deanery, Diocese of Pennsylvania, 1999-2002.

Supply and Short-term Interim Ministry: Diocese of Pennsylvania, September 1994- September 1997.

Interim Rector: St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Pittsboro, North Carolina, January 1994 - July 1994.

Interim Episcopal Chaplain: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, August 1992 - June 1993.

Part-time Interim Assistant to the Rector: Church of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 1992- August 1993.

Interim Vicar: Church of the Nativity, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 1992- August 31, 1992.

Interim Rector: St. Titus' Episcopal Church, Durham, North Carolina, January 1990- December 1991.

Supply Priest: Diocese of North Carolina, September 1986- December 1989.

Associate Rector: St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Ladue, Missouri, 1984- 1986.

Vicar: Trinity Episcopal Church, Eufaula, Oklahoma and St. Lawrence's Episcopal Church, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1980-1984.

Chaplain-Intern: Presbyterian Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1979- 1980. Completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and received advanced (Level 2) standing in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.

Instructor: Online Zoom Class: “The Desert Fathers and Mothers,” Lent 2021.

Instructor: Online Zoom Class: “The New Testament in its World,” July 2020-January 2021.

Instructor: Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics Seminar for postulants to the Diaconate in the Diocese of Easton, Fall 2006.

Instructor: Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, St. Peter's, Arlington 2011 to 2012.

Instructor: Introduction to New Testament Greek, St. Peter’s, Arlington, 2003 to 2009.

Instructor: “Systematic Theology,” Pennsylvania School for the Diaconate, Fall 1995.

Instructor: “Ethics and Moral Theology,” Pennsylvania School for the Diaconate, Spring 1996.

Member: The Rotary Club of Milford, New Hampshire

Reader: The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Reader: Dumbarton Oaks Library, Washington, D.C.

Reader: The Vatican Library, Rome, Italy.

Member: The Boston Athenaeum, Boston Massachusetts.

Board Member: The Love Quilt Project (2011-2021)

Shareholder: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

Member: The Union League of Philadelphia, 1997 to present.

Clergy Member: Washington Golf and Country Club, Arlington, VA (2003-2021).

Member: Bloomsday Planning Committee, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA, 1997 -2002.

Fleet Chaplain: The Union League Yacht Club, 1999 to 2002.

German, French, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Syriac

International Who’s Who of Professionals, 2001

Outstanding Young Men in America, 1986.