You can find my full curriculum vitae here.
Books
Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith
Cambridge University Press, 2019
(winner of The Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award + The ATF Literary Trust Book Prize)
“Rich, judicious, and insightful....This book offers an eloquent and moving defense of the power of hope in dark times.”
Arthur Bradley, The Review of Politics
Edited Books
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice
co-edited by Lexi Eikelboom & David Newheiser
Bloomsbury, 2025
The Varieties of Atheism
edited by David Newheiser
University of Chicago Press, 2022
Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God
co-edited by Eric Bugyis & David Newheiser
University of Notre Dame Press, 2015
Edited Journal Issues
Negative Political Theology
special issue of Modern Theology (36.1, 2020) - you can find the introduction here.
The Secularization of Hope
special issue of Political Theology (17.2, 2016) - you can find the introduction here.
Phenomenology and the Study of Religion
special issue of Louvain Studies (39.4, 2016) - you can find the introduction here.
Translations
Jacques Derrida, “Christianity and Secularization,” Critical Inquiry 47.1 (2020), 138-148.
- My introduction to the translation is here.
Articles & Chapters
co-authored with Rosemary Hancock & Milad Milani, “Thinking Religion in Place,” Journal for the Academic Study of Religion.
co-authored with Victor Counted, “How Place Shapes the Aspirations of Hope: The Allegory of the Privileged and the Underprivileged,” Journal of Positive Psychology 19.4 (2024), 724-731.
“The Genealogy of Atheism,” in The Varieties of Atheism, Ed. David Newheiser (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
“Hope in Turbulent Times,” Critical Research on Religion 10.3 (2022), 363-368.
“How hope becomes concrete,” Critical Research On Religion 9.3 (2021), 349-352.
“A Hope that is Concrete but Uncertain,” Crossing 1 (2020), 213-17.
“A Hope that Endures Darkness,” for a symposium on COVID-19 and Religious Ethics, The Journal of Religious Ethics 48.3 (2020), 363-64.
“Desacralizing Political Theology: Dionysius the Areopagite and Giorgio Agamben,” Modern Theology 36.1 (2020), 76-89.
- Russian translation published in Зубастая полка.
“Why the World Needs Negative Political Theology,” Modern Theology 36.1 (2020), 5-12.
“Derrida and the Danger of Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 86.1 (2018), 42-61.
“‘Religion’ and its Other,” Philosophy Today 62.4 (2018), 1277–1282.
“Normative Political Theology as Intensified Critique,” Political Theology 19.8 (2018), 669-674.
“Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism,” Theory, Culture & Society 33.5 (2016), 3-21.
“Theology and the Secular,” Political Theology 17.4 (2016), 378-89.
“Sexuality and Christian Tradition: Innovation and Fidelity, Ancient and Modern,” Journal of Religious Ethics 43.1 (2015), 122-145.
“Eckhart, Derrida, and the Gift of Love,” Heythrop Journal 56.6 (2015), 1010-1021.
- modified version reprinted in Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God, eds. Bugyis and Newheiser, Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.
“Conceiving Transformation without Triumphalism: Joachim of Fiore against Gianni Vattimo,” Heythrop Journal 55.4 (2014), 650-62.
“Foucault and the Practice of Patristics,” Studia Patristica LXII. Ed. Markus Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters, 2013, 81-7.
“Derrida, Jacques. I. Derrida and Jewishness,” The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Volume 6. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013.
“Eschatology and the Areopagite: Interpreting the Dionysian Hierarchies in Terms of Time,” Studia Patristica LXVIII. Ed. Markus Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters, 2013, 215-21.
“Time and the Responsibilities of Reading: Revisiting Derrida and Dionysius,” Reading the Church Fathers. Eds. Scot Douglass and Morwenna Ludlow. London: T&T Clark, 2011, 23-43.
“Ambivalence in Dionysius the Areopagite: The Limitations of a Liturgical Reading,” Studia Patristica XLVIII. Eds. J. Baun, A. Cameron, M. Edwards, M. Vinzent. Leuven: Peeters, 2010, 211-6.