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    Office: Livingston Hall 325
    Phone: 724-589-2191
    Email: bwagoner@thiel.edu

Fall 2008 Semester Schedule

Introduction to Greek: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
World Religions: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - 1-2 p.m.
Interpreting Jewish and Christian Scriptures: Tuesday, Thursday - 1-2:30 p.m.

Education

Ph.D. Harvard University, Study of Religion, anticipated 2008: concentration in ‘The Modern West’ with a subspecialty in Theology
A.M. Harvard University, 2005
S.T.M. Yale University, 2003
M.Div. Yale University, 2002
B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Gordon College, Philosophy and Literature, 1998

Work Experience

Teaching and Research Fellow, Harvard University, 2003-7
Research Assistant, Yale University, 2002-3.
Teaching Assistant, Gordon College, 1994-7.

Publications

“Theology’s Difficult Position,” in Harvard Divinity Bulletin 34:1, Spring 2005, pp. 36-48.
Excerpt: “Revelation as Event in Barth’s Early Theology,” in Karl Barth Society Newsletter, no. 30, spring 2005, pp. 1-3.

Teaching and Research Interests

History of Christianity and Christian ethics; Intellectual history and philosophy of the ‘modern west’; 19th and 20th Century Jewish and Christian thought; Post-Holocaust thought, especially the problem of ‘memory’; Political and Critical Theory; Theory of Religion, especially post-colonial critique; Religion and literature.