Joel Rasmussen
Associate Professor
Primary Area: Systematic Theology
Biography
Joel Rasmussen is Associate Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to coming to Notre Dame, he was Professor of Historical and Philosophical Theology in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, where he was also a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College, a member of the Faculty of Philosophy, and a Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall. Additional to his teaching and scholarly publications, Rasmussen also served for many years as the Director of the Oxford Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought (now the Centre for Philosophical Theology) and as an editor for the 11-volume critical edition of Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks (Princeton University Press).
Research Interests
Theology, philosophy, and intellectual history, with a focus on the interconnections between Christianity, European and American philosophy, and literature in modern culture.
Selected Publications
Between Irony and Witness: Kierkegaard’s Poetics of Faith, Hope, and Love. New York & London: T&T Clark, 2005.
“Kierkegaard, Hegelianism, and the Theology of the Paradox.” In The Impact of Idealism: The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought, volume 4: Religion, ed. Nicholas Adams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) pp. 91–113.
“The Transformation of Metaphysics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, ed. Joel D. S. Rasmussen, Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) pp. 11–34.
“Schelling and the New England Mind.” In International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 80:1–2 (2019) pp. 101–114.
“Either (Nietzsche) / Or (Aristotle)? MacIntyre’s Modernity and the Enduring Relevance of Kierkegaard.” In Modern Theology 39:4 (2023) pp. 588–606.
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University