Karl Eric Hefty
Profile
Karl Hefty is Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology and Director of Undergraduate Academic Programmes. Trained in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Chicago and the University of Cambridge, his teaching and research focus on the question of revelation and its relation to Christology, hermeneutics, and theological method. He also works in Greek and Latin patristic thought and in the history of medieval philosophy. He is currently completing the manuscript of his first book, an approach to revelation through the phenomenology of life. Prior to coming to Saint Paul University, he held an Arthur J. Ennis, O.S.A., Postdoctoral Fellowship at Villanova and a Lectureship in Greek Thought & Literature at the University of Chicago.
- Hermeneutics
- Christian Spirituality
- Phenomenology
- Theology and science
- Philosophy of religion
- Faith and Culture
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2012, Director: Jean-Luc Marion
M.Phil., University of Cambridge, 2004, Director: Jean-Yves Lacoste
Diploma, University of Cambridge, 2003, Thesis Director: Conor Cunningham, Director of Studies: Catherine Pickstock
B.A., Politics, University of Virginia, 1999, Thesis Director: Clifton McCleskey, Director of Studies: Larry Sabato
Articles
“Presence in the Flesh: Henry, Marion, and the Reduction of Givenness,” Archivio di Filosofia, Vol. 2, 2018: 203-303.
“In the Way of Communion: A Reply to Emmanuel Falque,” Crossing the Rubicon: The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology, by Emmanuel Falque (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), a book symposium in Syndicate Philosophy, November/December 2018.
“‘Givenness from Above’: The I Can and its Limits,” Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy, Vol. 1, 2018: 45-60.
“Mercy as ‘Experience’ of Life,” in Theoforum, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2016/2017: 286–312.
“Phenomenality or Revelation: Michel Henry’s Approach to Christianity,” Analecta Hermeneutica (special issue devoted to the work of Michel Henry), Vol. 8, 2016: 296-317.
“The Disclosive Power of Prayer: A Reply to Andrew Prevot,” Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity, by Andrew Prevot (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), a book symposium in Syndicate Theology, Issue 3.5, September/October, 2016: 47-51.
Book Chapters
“The Darkness of God and the Light of Life: Augustine, Denys, Eckhart,” Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God, ed. Eric Bugyis and David Newheiser (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015): 37-71.
“Comment déterminer le rôle de Dieu dans la philosophie de Michel Henry?” trans. Pierre-Jean Renaudie, La Vie et les vivants: (Re-)lire Michel Henry, ed. Grégori Jean, Jean Leclercq and Nicolas Monseu (Louvain-la-Neuve: Louvain University Press, 2013): 583-92.
“Introduction,” Words of Christ, by Michel Henry, Forward by Jean-Yves Lacoste, trans. Christina Gshwandtner (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012): xi-xxviii.
“Sens de la vérité et évidence charnelle,” trans. Anne Henry, Cahier Michel Henry, Les Dossiers H, ed. Jean Leclercq and Jean-Marie Brohm (Paris-Lausanne: Éditions L’Âge d’Homme, 2009): 457-65.
“The World without the Lie,” Transcendence and Phenomenology, ed. Peter M. Candler Jr. and Conor Cunningham (London: SCM Press, 2007): 227-40.
“Truth and Peace: The Body Politic in Augustine and Hobbes,” Theology and the Political: The New Debate, ed. Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank, and Creston Davis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005): 427-38.
Translations
English Translation, Incarnation: A Philosophy of Flesh, by Michel Henry (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015), 293 pp. + xx.
English Translation, “Philosophy and Subjectivity,” by Michel Henry, The Michel Henry Reader, eds Scott Davidson and Frederic Seyler (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming).
English Translation, “St. Augustine, or the Impossibility of Any Ego Cogito,” by Jean-Luc Marion, Augustine our Contemporary: Essays in Honor of David Tracy, ed. Willemien Otten and Susan Schreiner (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame University Press, submitted, 2016), 22 pp.
English Translation, “Reduction, Construction and Destruction of a Three-Way Dialog: Natorp, Husserl and Heidegger,” by Jean-François Courtine, co-trans. Daniel R. Rodríguez Navas, Variations on Truth: Approaches in Contemporary Phenomenology, ed. Pol Vandevelde and Kevin Hermberg (London: Continuum, 2011): 179-200.
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Approaching Revelation Phenomenologically
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Doctoral Seminar, Saint Paul University, Faculty of Theology, Oct 13, 2017 -
A Reply to Emmanuel Falque’s “Crossing the Rubicon: The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology” (Fordham, 2016)
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Symposium, Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology, Memphis, TN, Oct 19, 2017 -
Saint Augustine and Thinking Theologically Today
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Faculty of Theology Evening Webinar, Saint Paul University, Oct 25, 2017 -
Présence dans la chair
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Instituto di Studi Filosofici « Enrico Castelli », Università di Roma « La Sapienza », Jan 3-5, 2018
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Junior Faculty Teaching Award Nominee, Villanova University
2016 -
Junior Fellowship, Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion
2010-11 -
Chateaubriand Fellowship, Government of France
2009-10 -
Divinity School Fellowship, University of Chicago
2005-9