Tegha Nji
Primary Area: Systematic Theology
Biography
| Tegha Afuhwi Nji is a Catholic Priest of the Diocese of Buea, and a PhD candidate in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He received a ThM and an STL from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley, California in 2020. He has a BA in Philosophy and in Theology from STAMS, Bambui, Cameroon. Tegha Nji’s current research is on “The Burden of Election and Modern Individualism: Toward a Ratzingerian Critique.” Broadly, Tegha Nji's research engage the theological project of Benedict XVI in dialogue with other ressourcement theologians like Romano Guardini, Henri de Lubac, and Hans Urs von Balthasar, and other theologians of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (Augustine, Aquinas, Newman, et al), on a diversity of topics, including Christology, Trinitarian Theology, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, Creation, and Anthropology. He is also interested in the intersection between Theology and Philosophy, and the dialogue of theology and the modern culture. |
Research Interests
Benedict XVI and his Philosophical Interlocutors (Descartes, Nietzsche, et al), Ressourcement Theologians (Balthasar, De Lubac, et al), Inculturation, Catholic theology and the Modern Culture, Theological Anthropology
Representative Publications
“Imago Dei as an Eschatological Promise: Genesis 1:26-27 in Light of Ratzinger’s Augustinianism,” in Eschatology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium, ed. Kevin Wagner et al (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers). Forthcoming 2025.
“The ‘Apocalypse’ of God?—Re-thinking Europe’s Fate with Nietzsche and Ratzinger.” Nanovic Institute, Europe in the World (blog). April 30, 2024.
“Meditations on the Paschal Mystery through the Eyes of Mary (Part III: The Great Easter Vigil).” Benedict XVI Institute for Africa (blog). March 29, 2024.
“Etsi veluti Deus non daretur (As if God does not exist).” Benedict XVI Institute for Africa (blog). October 07, 2023.
“Africae Munus in the Light of Prophetic Praxis: A Liberation Theology for Africa? A Critical Engagement with Ratzinger,” in Africae Munus: Ten Years Later, ed. Maurice Agbaw-Ebai and Matthew Levering (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2022), pp. 225-261.
Dissertation
"The Burden of Election and Modern Individualism: Toward a Ratzingerian Critique"
Director: John Betz; Co-Director: Cyril O'Regan
Education
- Master of Theology (ThM), Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley, California
- Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL), Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley, California
- Bachelor of Theology (BTheo), St. Thomas Aquinas Major, Seminary, Bambui, Cameroon
- Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil), St. Thomas Aquinas Major, Seminary, Bambui, Cameroon