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Paul Dafydd Jones Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia PO Box 400126, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4126 434/982-2283 (office) | [email protected] EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Director of ‘Religion and its Publics’ University of Virginia. 2011 to present; 2015 to present Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. University of Virginia. 2006-11 EDUCATION Harvard University Committee on the Study of Religion Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Cambridge, MA 02138 A.M., Ph.D., 2006 Dissertation: ‘The Humanity of Christ in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics’ Director: Professor Ronald Thiemann Readers: Professors Sarah Coakley and David Lamberth Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Wissenschaftlich-Theologisches Seminar 69117 Heidelberg, Germany DAAD Graduate Research Scholar, 2004-5 The Divinity School, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Master of Divinity, 1999 Oriel College Oxford University Oxford, OX1 4EW B.A., First Class Honours (Theology), 1995 M.A. conferred 2006 Paul Dafydd Jones, curriculum vitae SCHOLARSHIP RESEARCH INTERESTS Christian theology and western philosophy of religion. Particular interests in Christology, atonement, the doctrine of God, and theological method; Protestant thought (particularly Karl Barth); political, liberationist, and constructive theology IN PROGRESS & INVITED Patience: A Theological Exploration (two-book project). First volume under contract with T&T Clark; manuscript to be submitted summer 2020. Paul Dafydd Jones and Kait Dugan (eds), Karl Barth and the Future of Liberation Theology ‘Schleiermacher, Dialectical Theology, and Neo-orthodoxy’, in Andrew Dole, Shelli Poe, and Kevin Vander Schel (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Chapter of ~7000 words. Invited: due summer 2020. ‘Karl Barth and Sexuality: A (somewhat) Indecent Proposal’ (article; drafted) ‘“This Dark Road”: Karl Barth’s Sermons at the Outset of the Great War’ (article; drafted) BOOKS The Humanity of Christ: Christology in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. London: Continuum/T&T Clark, 2008. Paperback published 2011. xiii + 290 pp. Award: Templeton Award for Theological Promise, 2010 Paul Dafydd Jones and Paul T. Nimmo (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxiv + 710 pp. ARTICLES & CHAPTERS 1. ‘Karl Barth,’ in Shaun Casey and Michael Kessler (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theology (Oxford University Press, in press) 2. ‘Karl Barth’s The Christian Life and the task of political theology,’ in Markus Höfner (ed.), Theo-Politics? Conversing with Barth in Western and Asian Contexts (Lexington Books-Fortress Academic, forthcoming) 3. ‘Person and Work: The Dogmatic Relation of Christology and Soteriology’ in Darren O. Sumner and Chris Tilling (eds), T&T Clark Companion to Christology (forthcoming, pending revisions after editorial feedback) 2 Paul Dafydd Jones, curriculum vitae 4. ‘Barth and Anselm,’ in George Hunsinger and Keith Johnson (eds), Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth, volume 2: Major Figures and Themes (Malden, Mass.: Wiley- Blackwell, 2020), 435-438 5. (with Paul T. Nimmo), ‘Introduction,’ in Paul Dafydd Jones and Paul Nimmo (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 1-9 6. ‘Human being,’ in Paul Dafydd Jones and Paul Nimmo (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 389-406 7. ‘The Patience of God the Creator: Reflections on Genesis 1:1-2:4a,’ International Journal of Systematic Theology, 21.4 (2019): 361-387 8. (with Charles T. Mathewes) ‘Futures for Public Theology,’ Political Theology. For the symposium, ‘Reconsidering Public Theology.’ Available at https://politicaltheology.com/a-response-to-reconsidering-public-theology/. December 2018. 9. ‘Patience and the Trinity,’ Modern Theology, 34.3 (2018): 386-402 10. ‘A Cheerful Unease: Theology and Religious Studies,’ in Elizabeth Shanks Alexander and Beth A. Berkowitz (eds), Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017), 69-81 11. ‘The Fury of Love: Calvin on the Atonement,’ in Adam J. Johnson (ed.), T&T Clark Companion to the Atonement (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017), 213-235 12. ‘The Riddle of Gethsemane: Barth on Jesus’s Agony in the Garden,’ in Daniel L. Migliore (ed.), Reading the Gospels with Karl Barth (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017), 124-154 13. ‘On the “loving mutations” of God, Sexuality, and the Self,’ Syndicate Theology, November/December 2015: 50-59. Also available at https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/sarah-coakley-god-sexuality-and-the- self/#paul-dafydd-jones 14. ‘On Patience: Thinking with and beyond Karl Barth,’ Scottish Journal of Theology, 68.3 (2015): 273-298 3 Paul Dafydd Jones, curriculum vitae 15. ‘Patience: A Theological Exploration,’ in William Schweiker and Günter Thomas (eds), The Enhancing Life Project: Scholars and Research Projects, 179-192 16. ‘Patience: A Theological Experiment,’ Theology Today, 72.1 (2015): 15-20 17. ‘Ronald Thiemann’s theologia crucis and the Task of Public Theology,’ Toronto Journal of Theology, 30.1 (2014): 19-32 18. (with Mara Willard) ‘Conclusion’ to Ronald F. Thiemann, The Humble Sublime: Secularity and the Politics of Belief, co-written with Mara Willard (London: I. B. Tauris, 2014), 189-201 and 234-236 19. ‘On the “Monstrosity of Christ”: Karl Barth in conversation with Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank,’ The Other Journal, 22 (2013): 87-103. Also available online: http://theotherjournal.com/2013/07/08/on-the-monstrosity-of-christ-karl-barth-in- conversation-with-slavoj-zizek-and-john-milbank/. A somewhat different version of this essay is published in W. Travis McMaken and David W. Congdon (eds), Karl Barth in Conversation (Eugene, Oreg.: Pickwick, 2014), 171-89 20. ‘Book Review Essay: David Kelsey, Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology,’ Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 80.3 (2012): 787-800 21. ‘A Hopeful Universalism,’ The Christian Century, 129.13 (2012): 22-27 (cover story). Award: Associated Church Press, ‘Honorable Mention’ in the ‘Critical Review’ category, 2013 22. ‘The Heart of the Matter: Karl Barth’s Christological Exegesis,’ in George Hunsinger (ed.), Thy Word is Truth: Barth on Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), 173-195 23. ‘Obedience, Trinity, and Election: Thinking with and beyond the Church Dogmatics,’ in Michael T. Dempsey (ed.), Trinity and Election in Contemporary Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011), 138-161 24. ‘The Rhetoric of War in Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans: A Theological Analysis,’ Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte, 17.1 (2010): 90-111. An earlier version of this piece is included in Russell Kleckley and Arthur McCalla (eds), Papers of the Nineteenth-Century Theology Group, vol. XL (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009) 25. ‘Barth and Anselm: God, Christ, and the Atonement,’ International Journal of Systematic Theology, 12.3 (2010): 257-282 4 Paul Dafydd Jones, curriculum vitae 26. ‘The Atonement: God’s Love in Action,’ in Tom Greggs (ed.), New Perspectives for Evangelical Theology: Engaging with God, Scripture, and the World (London: Routledge, 2010), 44-62 27. ‘Liberation Theology and “Democratic Futures” (by way of Karl Barth and Friedrich Schleiermacher),’ Political Theology, 10.1 (2009): 261-285 28. ‘Karl Barth,’ in Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis (eds), The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, vol. 5, Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion (Durham, U.K.: Acumen, 2009), 145-159 29. ‘Karl Barth on Gethsemane,’ International Journal of Systematic Theology, 9.2 (2007): 148-171 30. ‘Jesus Christ and the Transformation of English Society: The “Subversive Conservatism” of Frederick Denison Maurice,’ Harvard Theological Review, 96.3 (2003): 205-228 REVIEWS 1. ‘Francesca Aran Murphy (ed.) and Troy Stefano (asst. ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Christology,’ International Journal of Systematic Theology, 19.2 (2017): 237-241 2. ‘John Webster, The Domain of the Word: Scripture and Theological Reason,’ Modern Theology, 30.1 (2014): 174-176 3. ‘Jan-Olav Henriksen, Desire, Gift, and Recognition: Christology and Postmodern Philosophy,’ Modern Theology, 26.4 (2010): pp. 677-679 4. ‘Karl Barth: God’s Word in Action by Paul S. Chung,’ Scottish Journal of Theology, 63.4 (2010): 474-477 5. ‘The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice by Ted. A. Smith,’ Practical Matters Journal, issue 1 (2009). Available at http://practicalmattersjournal.org/2009/04/01/new-measures/ 6. ‘Liberal Theology: A Radical Vision by Peter Hodgson,’ Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 76.1 (2008): 213-216 7. ‘Job and the Disruption of Identity: Reading Beyond Barth by Susannah Ticciati,’ Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 26.3 (2008): 219-222 5 Paul Dafydd Jones, curriculum vitae 8. ‘Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University by Thomas Albert Howard,’ Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 75.4 (2007): 1006-1009 EDITED BOOK SERIES T&T Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology, co-edited with Paul Nimmo (University of Aberdeen). Current titles: 1. Faye Bodley Dangelo, Sexual Difference, Gender, and Agency in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2019 2. Shelli Poe, Essential Trinitarianism: Schleiermacher as Trinitarian Theologian. London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2017 3. Christina N. Larsen, The Glory of the Son in Jonathan Edwards’ Christology. Under contract with T&T Clark/Bloomsbury. ENCYCLOPEDIA