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Colby Dickinson, PhD

Title/s:  Professor of Theology

Office #:  Crown Center 313

Phone: 773.508.2362

Email: cdickinson1@luc.edu

CV Link: Dickinson CV

About

Colby Dickinson completed a BA in literature at Truman State University (1998), an MTS at Duke Divinity School (2000), an MA in Theology, Religious Education at Saint Louis University (2006), an MAS in Theology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, Belgium (2008), and STB, STL, PhD and STD degrees also completed at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2012). His areas of research include continental philosophy in relation to theology, philosophy of religion, phenomenology and theology, atheism and secularism, and political theology. 
 

Degrees

Sacrae Theologiae Doctor (S.T.D.), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 11 May 2012

  • Dissertation under Prof. dr. Lieven Boeve and Dr. Frederiek Depoortere: 鈥楻eligious Categories in-between Philosophy and Theology: A Fundamental-Theological Investigation into the 鈥淢essianic鈥 and the 鈥淐anonical鈥 in Contemporary Continental Thought鈥
  • Thesis: 鈥楾he Processes of Canonicity and their Relation to the Canonical: A Further Freudian Impression鈥

 

Sacrae Theologiae Licentiatus (S.T.L.), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 6 July 2011

 

Sacrae Theologiae Baccalaureus (S.T.B.), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 30 June 2010

 

Master of Advanced Studies in Theology (M.A.S.), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2 July 2008

 

Master of Arts in Theology, Religious Education (M.A.), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, 6 January 2006

 

Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.), Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 14 May 2000

  • Thesis: 鈥楽酶ren Kierkegaard and the Politics of Poetics: Recovering Poetry as a Theological Discourse鈥

 

Bachelor of Arts, Literature (B.A.), Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, 29 May 1998

Program Areas

Systematic Theology

Research Interests

Continental Philosophy in relation to Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology and Theology, Atheism and Secularism, and Political Theology

Selected Publications

Giorgio Agamben鈥檚 Homo Sacer Series: A Critical Introduction and Guide, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Theological Poverty in Continental Philosophy: After Christian Theology, 鈥楶olitical Theologies鈥, London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

The Fetish of Theology: The Challenge of the Fetish-Object to Modernity, 鈥楻adical Theologies and Philosophies鈥, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Theology as Autobiography: The Centrality of Confession, Relationship and Prayer to the Life of Faith, Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2020.

The Challenge of God: Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, with Hugh Miller and Kathleen McNutt, London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The Centrality of a Negative Dialectics, London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Continental Philosophy and Theology, 鈥楤rill Research Perspectives in Theology鈥, Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation, 鈥楶erspectives in Continental Philosophy鈥, New York: Fordham University Press, 2016.

Walter Benjamin and Theology, with St茅phane Symons, 鈥楶erspectives in Continental Philosophy鈥, New York: Fordham University Press, 2016.

Agamben鈥檚 Coming Philosophy: Finding a New Use for Theology, with Adam Kotsko, London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 

Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought, 鈥楤loomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy鈥, London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

The Postmodern Saints of France: Refiguring 鈥楾he Holy鈥 in Contemporary French Philosophy, London: T&T Clark, 2013.

Agamben and Theology, 鈥楶hilosophy and Theology鈥, London: T&T Clark, 2011.