Fellows

Olivier Boulnois. Directeur d'études Religions et philosophie dans le christianisme au Moyen Âge École pratique des hautes études at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is the author of Être et représentation : Une généalogie de la méthaphysique moderne à l'époque de Duns Scot, Duns Scot, la rigueur de la charité, Je crois en un seul Dieu, and most recently Au delà de l'image : Une archéologie du visuel au Moyen Age.

William Desmond. Professor of Philosophy and Director of the International Program of Philosophy in the Higher Institute of Philosophy, Kathlieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of many books, including the philosophical trilogy Being and the Between, Ethics and the Between, and most recently God and the Between. The first won both the Prix Cardinal Mercier Award in 1995 and the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America for the best book in metaphysics. Other works include: Hegel’s God: Counterfeit Double?, and Is There A Sabbath for Thought: Between Religion and Philosophy.

Fergus Kerr O.P. Formerly Regent of Blackfriars Oxford, and currently Senior Lecturer in the Divinity School at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include, the acclaimed Theology After Wittgenstein, Immortal Longings, After Aquinas, and Twentieth Century Catholic Theologians. He is also editor of New Blackfriars.

Cyril O’Regan. Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame. Professor O’Regan’s publications include, The Heterodox Hegel, Gnostic Return in Modernity, and Gnostic Apocalypse: Jacob Boehme's Haunted Narrative.

Regina Schwartz. Professor of English, Northwestern University. Her publications include Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost, which won the James Holly Hanford prize for the best book on Milton; The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory, Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature, The Postmodern Bible, and most recently, The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism.

Oliva Blanchette. Professor of Philosophy, Boston College. His publications include, The Perfection of the Universe According to Aquinas: a Teleological View and Philosophy of Being: A Reconstructive Essay. Professor Blanchette is also the translator of Maurice Blondel’s Action (1893): Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice.

Catherine Pickstock. Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. She is author of the acclaimed After Writing: On the Liturgical consummation of Philosophy; and Thomas d'Aquin et la quête eucharistque, and (with John Milbank) Truth in Aquinas. At the moment she is completing a book entitled A Short Guide to Plato.

David Bentley Hart. Visiting Professor of Theology at Providence College in Rhode Island. An Eastern Orthodox theologian, Dr. Hart's publications include, The Beauty of the Infinte: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? and Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies.

Honorary Fellow

Most Reverend Dr Robin Eames, Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland.