
Joseph Lenow, PhD
Instructor
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise/Specializations
- Philosophical Theology
- Christology
- Augustine
- Early Christianity
Academic Appointments
Department
- Theology
Position
- Instructor
Publications and Presentations
Articles
- “Shoring Up Divine Simplicity Against Modal Collapse: A Powers Account”, Religious Studies, 2019
- “Evolution, Human Enhancement, and Human Nature:
Four Challenges to Essentialism in Theological Anthropology”, Journal of Religion and Society, 21supp.18, 205-231 , 2019 - “Christ, the Praying Animal: A Critical Engagement with Niels Henrik
Gregersen and the Christology of Deep Incarnation”, International Journal of Systematic Theology, 20.4, 554-578, 2018 - “Patience and Judgment in the Christology of Cyprian of Carthage”, Studia Patristica, Vol. XCIV, 233-246, 2017
Presentations
- “The Mystical Agency of Christ in the Letters of Cyprian”
XVIII. International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University., 2019 - “Augustine and the Work of Incarnation”
Early Career Scholars Workshop, Duke University., 2019 - “Augustine’s totus Christus and the Social Suffering of Christ”
“Christology, Suffering, and Salvation: Reflections on Theology and Healthcare” panel,
Conference on Medicine and Religion. Stanley Hauerwas responding., 2019 - “Can We Imagine a Human Future? Afrofuturism, Transhumanism, and
Human Life in Christ”
Duke University Divinity School, Science and Religion Initiative., 2019 - “Just Sympathy: Lars Spuybroek’s ‘Digital Gothic’ Architecture and the Common Good”
Arts, Literature, and Religion unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting., 2018 - “Re-Forming the Human: Evolution, Transhumanism, and the Platonic Doctrine of Forms”
Religion and Reform, Kripke Center Symposium, Creighton University., 2018 - “Interstitial Homiletics: Augustine’s sermo Dolbeau 26 in Postcolonial Perspective”
Augustine and Augustinianisms section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting., 2017
Research and Scholarship
Current Research Projects
- Completing Christ: An Augustinian Christology (monograph; nearly completed)
Hexaemeron: Cosmology, Evolution, and the Six Days of Creation (monograph; early stages)
"The Mystical Agency of Christ in the Letters of Cyprian" (in process)
"Can We Imagine a Human Future? Afrofuturism, Transhumanism, and Human Life in Christ" (in process)
"The Promise of Deep Incarnation" (in process)