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Jennifer Newsome Martin

Associate Professor
John J. Cavanaugh Associate Professor of the Program of Liberal Studies
Director, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture

Primary Area: Systematic Theology

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Office
320R O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
+1 574-631-7221
Email
jmarti16@nd.edu
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Biography

Jennifer Newsome Martin is the John J. Cavanaugh Associate Professor of the Humanities and a Catholic systematic theologian with particular expertise in theological aesthetics and the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Her first book, Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought, was one of 10 winners internationally of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. She serves on the editorial boards of Religion & Literature, Theological Studies, Communio, and the University of Notre Dame Press and is a series editor for UNDP’s Catholic Ideas for a Secular World, Bloomsbury’s T&T Clark Explorations at the Crossroads of Theology and Aesthetics, and the Elements of the History of Theology and Philosophy series with Cambridge University Press. She has a joint appointment in the Program of Liberal Studies and is the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.

Research Interests

19th and 20th century Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox thought, Theological Aesthetics, Trinitarian Theology, Religion and Literature, Ressourcement Theology, Theologies of Tradition, Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Henry Newman

Selected Publications

Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015).

“The Annunciation of the Flesh: Bodily Mediation in the Work of Charles Péguy,” Communio: International Catholic Review, 48 (Spring 2021).

“Memory Matters: Ressourcement Theology’s Debt to Henri Bergson,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 23:2 (April 2021).

“Balthasar avec Kristeva: On the Recovery of a Baroque Teresa of Avila,” Modern Theology 37:1 (January 2021).

“The Ever-Prior Act: Paul Claudel and the Poetics of Communio,” Communio: International Catholic Review (Winter 2022), The Unity and Mission of the Church: Communio at 50 Years (Winter 2022).

 

Education

  • MTS, University of Notre Dame
  • PhD, University of Notre Dame