Dr Joshua Furnal
Lecturer in Systematic Theology
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Email: joshua.furnal@spcm.ie
Phone: +353 1 7083625
Office: Dunboyne House
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Research Interests
- The Catholic reception of Søren Kierkegaard's Theology
- The philosophical theology of Fr. Cornelio Fabro CSS
- Ressourcement Theology and The Second Vatican Council
- Themes and Theologians in Modern Christian Theology
- The intersection of Existentialism and Thomism
Biography
Joshua Furnal (Ph.D. Durham) is an Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth.
His research explores the history of modern Christian theology and philosophical theology from the 20th century to the present. He has published on a variety of topics including the philosophical theology of Søren Kierkegaard, the Thomist philosopher Cornelio Fabro, and 'ressourcement' theologians in relation to Vatican II.
His first monograph, Catholic Theology after Kierkegaard (Oxford University Press 2016) discovered that Kierkegaard’s writings had a surprising impact on influential Catholic thinkers during the twentieth century. His next monograph is provisionally entitled Being before God: Cornelio Fabro’s Thomistic Approach to Kierkegaard’s Theology. He is also the translator of Cornelio Fabro’s Introduction to St. Thomas (IVE Press 2022), and he wrote the critical introduction to Fabro’s Selected Articles on Søren Kierkegaard (IVE Press 2020).
Recently, he has been the recipient of five visiting research fellowships: Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (Germany), the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Italy), the Hong Kierkegaard Library (USA), Gladstone’s Library (UK), and the National Institute for Newman Studies (USA).
Before coming to Maynooth in 2022, he held a tenure-track teaching and research position at Radboud University in the Netherlands (2015-2022). He was also an Associate Editor of Brill Research Perspectives in Theological Traditions (2019-2021) and the co-editor of the Contributions to Philosophical Theology series (2016-present). Also, he held various postdoctoral positions as a Visiting Research Fellow with the Leslie Center for the Humanities and a Lecturer in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College (2014-15). Also, he has been a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen (2016), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Durham University (UK) in the Department of Theology and Religion with the Centre for Catholic Studies (2013-14).
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