Member Profiles
Christopher Cullen, S.J.
Associate Professor, Fordham University
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
S.T.L. Weston Jesuit School of Theology
M.Div. Weston Jesuit School of Theology
M.A. (Research) Philosophy, Saint Louis University
A.B. Philosophy and History, Georgetown University
AMA Presentations
(2025) Panel on Dignitas Infinita.
(2024) “The Political Thought of St. Bonaventure.”
(2024) “Aquinas and Integralism: A Political Theory of Medieval Christendom.”
(2023) “Teutoburg Forest, the Unity of Christendom, and Hellenism.”
(2022) “After Christendom: From Unity to Plurality in Catholic Political Theology.’”
(2020) “The Quest for Philosophical Unity: Neo-Scholasticism’s Philosophia Perennis, Gerson’s Ur-Platonism, and MacIntyre’s Tradition.”
(2018) “John Locke: The Law of Nature and Nature’s God.”
(2017) “Existentialism and Humanism.”
Publications
Books
(2006) Bonaventure. Oxford University Press.
Edited Books
(2009) Maritain and America, eds. Christopher Cullen, S.J. and Joseph Allan Clair. Catholic University of America Press.
Academic Articles
(2017) “Alexander of Hales,” in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, ed. Henrik Lagerlund. Springer.
(2017) “Benedict XVI: On the Political Order,” Nova et Vetera 15 (3): 885-900.
(2016) “The Thomism of St. Ignatius and the Spiritual Exercises: Predestination, Physical Pre-motion, and the Sovereignty of Grace,” in Thomism and Predestination: Principles and Disputations, eds. Roger Nutt, Steven A. Long, and Thomas Joseph White. Sapientia Press.
(2014) “The Doctrine of Analogy among the Thomists: A Debate Renewed,” Nova et Vetera 12 (3): 977-90.
(2014) “Bonaventure’s Philosophical Method,” in Companion to Bonaventure, ed. J. A. Wayne Hellmann and Jay Hammond, trans. by Jared Goff. Brill.
(2012) “The Natural Desire to See God and Pure Nature: A Debate Renewed,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (4): 705-30.
(2011) “Bonaventure on Nature before Grace: A Historical Moment Reconsidered,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 85 (1): 161-76.
(2007) “Community, Religion, and Virtue in Modern Liberal Democracies,” in Die fragile Demokratie (The Fragility of Democracy), ed. Anton Rauscher. Humblot.
(2007) “St. Bonaventure,” “Augustinianism,” and “Marsilius of Padua,” in Catholic Social Thought, Social Science and Social Policy: An Encyclopedia, eds. Stephen M. Krason and Joseph Varacalli. Scarecrow Press.
(2007) “Between God and Nothingness: Matter in John Paul II’s Theology of the Body,” in Pope John Paul II on the Body: Human, Eucharistic, Ecclesial, eds. J. Michael McDermott, S.J., and John Gavin, S.J. St. Joseph’s University Press.
(2006) “John Peckham,” “Alexander of Hales,” in Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, eds. A. C. Grayling and Andrew Pyle. Continuum.
(2004) “Response to “The New Evangelization of American Intellectual Culture: Context, Resistances, Strategies,” in Creed and Culture, eds. by Joseph Koterski, S.J. and John Conley, S.J. St. Joseph’s University Press.
(2003) “Alexander of Hales,” in Blackwell Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, eds. Jorge J. E. Gracia and Timothy Noone. Blackwell.
(2001) “The New General Instruction of the Roman Missal and Mass Versus Populum,” with Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. Homiletic and Pastoral Review: 51-54.
(2000) “Scholastic Hylomorphism and Western Art: From the Gothic to the Baroque,” in Beauty, Art, and the Polis, ed. Alice Ramos. Catholic University of America Press.
(1999) “Transcendental Thomism: Realism Rejected,” in The Failure of Modernism, ed. Brendan Sweetman. Catholic University of America Press.
(1999) “Familiaris Consortio: Fifteen Years Since,” in Prophesy and Diplomacy: The Moral Teaching of John Paul II: A Jesuit Symposium, eds. Joseph Koterski, S.J. and John Conley, S.J. Fordham University Press.