SAMUEL J. LONCAR
CURRICULUM VITAE SEPTEMBER 2016
Yale University Cell: 203-928-7921 Department of Religious Studies [email protected] 451 College Street New Haven, CT 06511
EDUCATION
2012-Present Ph.D. Student, Philosophy of Religion, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University
2012 M.A.R. Philosophy of Religion, Yale Divinity School, summa cum laude
2009 B.A. Philosophy and English, Liberty University, summa cum laude
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
“Why Listen to Philosophers? A Constructive Critique of Disciplinary Philosophy.” Metaphilosophy 47.1 (2016): 3-25.
“Converting the Kantian Self: Radical Evil, Agency, and Conversion in Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason.” Kant-Studien, 104.3 (2013): 346- 366.
“German Idealism’s Long Shadow: The Fall and Divine-Human Agency in Tillich’s Systematic Theology.” Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 54.1 (2012): 95-118.
“From Jena to Copenhagen: Kierkegaard’s Relations to German Idealism and the Critique of Autonomy in The Sickness Unto Death.” Religious Studies 47.2 (2011): 201-216.
“Transcendental Idealism and the German Counter Enlightenment: The Philosophical Significance of Hamann’s and Jacobi’s Criticisms of Kant.” Dialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau 51.1 (2008): 1-10.
Manuscripts in Submission
“Marcion’s Child: Schleiermacher, Anti-Judaism, and the Foundations of Liberal Protestantism.’” Modern Intellectual History, under review
Manuscripts in Preparation
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Books
Against the Secular: Heidegger between Philosophy and Religion
Articles
“Philosophy as Revelation: Apollo and Socrates’ Daimonion in the Apology”
“Is Theology a Science? The Secularization of Reason in Aquinas and Schleiermacher.”
“Adversus Marcionem: Theology, Philosophy, and Creation in Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption.”
HONORS AND AWARDS
2014 Baron Foundation Grant, Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism, on Schleiermacher and Anti-Judaism ($2000)
2012-present Junior Fellow, MacMillan Center, Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society
2011-2012 David M. Diener Scholarship, Yale Divinity School, full tuition
2010-2011 Baden-Württemberg Stipendium (€8,800)
2010 FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Summer Fellowship, Goethe Institut Summer Intensive, Mannheim Germany
2009-2011 Yale Divinity School Scholarship, full tuition
CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
2015 “Christianity, Judaism, and the Secular: The Logic of Supersessionism.” April 2, Yale College (invited lecture)
2014 “Schleiermacher, Anti-Judaism, and the Foundations of Protestant Liberalism.” Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Baron Scholars Conference, Nov. 11, 2014
2013 "Beyond the Secular: Hermeneutics and Political Theology in Hobbes' Leviathan." Religion and Politics Conference, Yale University 2013
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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2016 Theological Ethics, Teaching Fellow for Adam Eitel (Fall)
Theology of Plato and Aristotle, Teaching Fellow for John Hare (Spring)
2015 Theology and the New Testament, Teaching Fellow for Dale Martin and Kathryn Tanner (Fall)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2014-2015 RA for Phillip Gorski, Professor of Sociology, Yale University Assisted with The Fall and Rise of American Civil Religion: Religion and Politics from Winthrop to Obama (Princeton University Press, forthcoming)
2013-2015 RA for Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School Assisted with Confessions of a Born Again Pagan (Yale University Press, forthcoming)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2016 Referee, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
2015 Student Organizer, Textual Unities Conference, Yale University, October 6-8
2012-2014 Co-convener, Religion and Politics Reading Group, MacMillan Center
LANGUAGES
German (reading and speaking) French (reading) Greek (reading) Latin (reading)
REFERENCES
Paul Franks, Professor of Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Judaic Studies Yale University, 344 College St, New Haven, CT 06511 Tel. (203) 432-1683. Email. [email protected]
John Hare, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Yale Divinity School, 451 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Tel. (203) 432-5343. Email. [email protected]
Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law Yale Law School, P.O. Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520
3 Tel. (203) 432-4934. Email. [email protected]
Phillip Gorski, Professor of Sociology, Yale University, 493 College St, Room 402, New Haven, CT 06511 Tel. (203) 432-3730. Email. [email protected]
Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School, 451 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Tel. 203 432-5332. Email: [email protected]
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