Christopher Barnett

Education:

• B.S. 1999 The University of Alabama at Birmingham
• M.A. 2001 St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
• M.Div. 2004 Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois
• D.Phil. 2008 University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.

Specialties:

• Kierkegaard; Christian Spirituality; Modern Theology; Theology, Spirituality and the Arts

Publications:

• BOOK (forthcoming): Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard's Philosophy, New Edition series: Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements, ed. Jon Woronoff
• "Film and Television," in The Cambridge History of Atheism, ed. Michael Ruse and Stephen Bullivant (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019-20).
• BOOK (forthcoming): Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology (New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2019-20)
• BOOK (forthcoming): Søren Kierkegaard: Discourses and Writings on Spirituality: The Classics of Western Spirituality (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2019).
• BOOK (forthcoming): Scorsese as Theologian, ed. with Clark J. Elliston (Leiden: Brill, 2018). [Includes an authored chapter as well: "Dostoevskian Elements in Scorsese's Cinema"]
• “Kierkegaard’s Concept of Sanctification,” in T&T Clark Companion to Kierkegaard’s Theology, ed. David Gouwens and Aaron Edwards (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018).
• “Kierkegaard and the Aesthetics of the Icon,” in Kierkegaard, Literature and the Arts, ed. Eric J. Ziolkowski (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018).
• “From Hegel to Google: Kierkegaard and the Perils of ‘the System’,” in Kierkegaard’s God and the Good Life, ed. Stephen Minister, J. Aaron Simmons, and Michael Strawser (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017)
• BOOK: Theology and the Films of Terrence Malick, coedited with Clark J. Elliston (London: Routledge, 2016) [Includes two authored chapters as well: "The Obscurity of the Self--or Why Bruce Springsteen Gets Badlands Wrong" and "Terrence Malick and Spirituality"]
• “ ‘Rest’ as Unio Mystica?: Kierkegaard, Augustine, and the Spiritual Life” in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (2016)
• “Kierkegaard and the Catholic Tradition” (with Peter Sajda, O.P.), in The Blackwell Companion to Kierkegaard, ed. Jon Stewart (Oxford: Blackwell, 2015).
• "Søren Kierkegaard og Katolicismen, by Heinrich Roos, S.J.," in Kierkegaard’s Secondary Literature, ed. Jon Stewart (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2015)
• "The Mind of Kierkegaard, by James Collins," in Kierkegaard’s Secondary Literature, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2015)
• "Don Quixote: Kierkegaard and the Relation Between Knight-Errant and Truth-Witness," in Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motfis: Tome I, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014).
• BOOK: From Despair to Faith: The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard (Fortress Press, 2014).
• Kierkegaard’s Kenotic Christology, by David R. Law, Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society (2014)
• "Catholicism" in Kierkegaard's Concepts: Tome I, ed. Jon Stewart (Ashgate, 2013), 161-67.
• “The Mystical Influence on Kierkegaard’s Theological Anthropology,” Acta Kierkegaardiana VI (2013)
• “Flannery O’Connor: Reading Kierkegaard in the Light of Thomas Aquinas,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on Literature and Criticism: Tome IV: The Anglophone World, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2013).
• “Spirit(uality) in the Films of Terrence Malick,” Journal of Religion & Film 17, iss. 1, art. 33 (2013).
• “Henri de Lubac, S.J.: Locating Kierkegaard Amid the ‘Drama’ of Nietzschean Humanism,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on Theology: Tome III: Catholic and Jewish Theology, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2012), 97-110.
• “Erich Przywara, S.J.: Catholicism’s Great Expositor of the ‘Mystery’ of Kierkegaard,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on Theology: Tome III: Catholic and Jewish Theology, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2012), 131-51.
• BOOK: Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2011)
• “Socrates the Pietist?: Tracing the Socratic in Zinzendorf, Hamann, and Kierkegaard,” in Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 2010, ed. Niels Jorgen Cappelørn, K. Brian Soderquist, Hermann Deuser (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), 307-24.
• Kierkegaard: An Introduction, by C. Stephen Evans, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 61, no. 4 (2010), 876-77.
• “Gerhard Tersteegen: Kierkegaard’s Reception of a Man of ‘Noble Piety and Simple Wisdom’,” in Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Early Modern Traditions: Tome II: Theology, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2009), 245-58.
• “Thomas Kingo: An Investigation of the Poet and Hymnist’s Impact on Kierkegaard,” in Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Early Modern Traditions: Tome II: Theology, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2009), 157-72.
• “Hans Adolph Brorson: Danish Pietism’s Greatest Hymn Writer and His Relation to Kierkegaard,” in Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Early Modern Traditions: Tome II: Theology, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2009), 63-80.
• “Nikolai Edinger Balle: The Reception of His Lærebog in Denmark and in Kierkegaard’s Authorship,” in Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries: Tome II: Theology, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2009), 23-38.
• “Should One Suffer Death for the Truth?: Kierkegaard, Erbauungsliteratur, and the Imitation of Christ,” Journal for the History of Modern Theology 15, no. 2 (2008): 232-47.